Minor Injuries and illness

Appraisal of Specific Patient Groups

Learning Outcome – Review the different needs of 3 specific patient groups – children, older people and people with a mental health disorder, who present with minor illness/injury

Requires you to critically appraise the different needs of specific patient groups, including children, older people and people with a mental health disorder who present with minor illness / injury. In this section you need to demonstrate how patient assessment and management is adapted to accommodate the needs of these specific patient groups. You may wish to within this section specifically focus on how assessment and triage may be adapted. It is paramount that the work is related to the patient presenting with a minor illness or injury, throughout. We recommend that you address each group individually, as this will help focus the writing. All 3 patient groups should be addressed to meet the learning outcome.

For this learning outcome please write a short summary of your learning achievements and provide an action plan for your continued and future learning needs. Start with where you felt your level of knowledge of minor illness and injury was before you studied this module, continuing to highlight how you have developed your knowledge, outlining how this new learning can be applied in your practice, supported by good quality evidence from the literature. You may want to use a reflective model template for this. Examples of these are Gibbs Reflective cycle (1988), or Rolf’s (2001) What? So what? Now what? These are not mandatory and a paragraph discussing your practice and implementation of these skills will also be acceptable. As this section is discussing your personal practice, the use of the first person writing in this section is appropriate, even if you have used the third person in the rest of the assignment.