Includes bibliographical references and index.

Starting out : the wider picture / Shirley Martin -- Modernisation : role redesign to optimise patient outcomes / John Beesley -- Training and education / Barry Paraskeva -- Nurse prescribing / Anne Clarridge -- Medico legal aspects of non-medical practitioner roles / Verity Danzieger -- Communication skills for minor surgery / Debra Nestel -- Preoperative assessment / Anurag Patel and Sanjay Purkayastha -- Perioperative management : consent and follow-up / Jennifer Simpson -- Documentation / Anurag Patel and Sanjay Purkayastha -- Maintaining asepsis : preventing infection of the surgical site / Christine McDougall -- The theatre environment and equipment / Parvinderpal Sains -- Recognising skin lesions / Julia Schofield -- Basic anatomy and techniques of excising skin lesions / Gregory Thomas and Sanjay Purkayastha -- Local anaesthesia for minor operative procedures / David Lomax and Kausi Rao -- Operative techniques for minor surgical procedures / Rajesh Aggarwal -- Haemostasis and cautery for minor procedures / Parvinderpal Sains -- Future prospects / Shirley Martin.

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