Competency information
Details
Record a comprehensive and contemporaneous patient history, recognising the significance of changes in the patient’s reported health status and taking appropriate action.
Considerations
- Clinical history-taking frameworks.
- Patient-centred history taking, including how to build up a picture of the patient’s problems from their perspective of their physical complaints, the impact of these complaints on their lives and any psychosocial issues that are also active.
- The importance of an accurate and complete patient history and the potential implications of missing or incorrect information.
- Factors relevant to the range of investigations to be undertaken.
- How to validate information provided.
- How to communicate with patients in ways that facilitate cooperation and an understanding of requirements, including patients with special needs.
- Investigations and management of swellings in the head and neck.
- Tumour, Node Metastases (TNM) tumour staging system.
- Role of MDT planning meetings for head and neck cancer.
- Principles of treatment for stage 1 and 2 maxillary tumours.
- Effects of irradiation damage of tissues.
- Common surgical procedures for stage 1 and 2 maxillary tumours.
- Interpretation of prescriptions for medical devices.
- Where, how and when to seek advice and information from colleagues and relevant agencies.
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 1 | Outcome Observe informed consent and assist in planning the treatment of the patient who has experienced maxillofacial trauma in accordance with local/professional guidelines, adapting techniques as necessary to reflect possible outcomes and influencing factors. |