Competency information
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Interview a variety of parents, carers and children, if appropriate, with different communication needs and levels of understanding to gain relevant clinical and social information
Considerations
- Interview strategies and mechanisms of gaining maximum historical and psychosocial information
- Equality and diversity awareness
- Different communication strategies, including the use of interpreters, spoken or manual
- Deaf awareness
- Awareness of non-verbal language
- Process of mental capacity assessment
- Use of a variety of interview techniques to ascertain the relevant clinical and psychosocial information
- Clinical pathology signs and profiles
- Use of suitable and relevant questionnaires
- The identification of possible aetiological or contributing factors as they arise and how to spontaneously probe for more relevant information
- Expectations of patients from the consultation
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 2 | Outcome Interpret test results and consolidate these in relation to all other relevant information obtained |