This micro-credential aims to equip candidates with the requisite knowledge, skills, attributes, and capabilities to meet the needs of patients who may require minor surgical skin procedures. It supports existing and expanding professional roles in practice. It provides an opportunity for accredited learning to assist in formal career advancement structures and requirements (where applicable) that may include expansion of existing practice.

Topics Include:

• Patient assessment/treatment options
• Lesion identification/management
• Local anesthesia administration risks and management
• Wound/Sharp debridement
• Cryosurgery
• LARC
• Suturing - materials/techniques/wound closure
• Punch biopsies & curettage
• Ellipse marking/excision
• Deep dermal suturing & wound closure
• Abscesses/cyst/in-grown toenail management
• Discharge advice/aftercare
• Clinical Governance/Medico-legal aspects
• Protocol development/audit

• Candidates must have a minimum of NFQ level 8 professional nursing/midwifery qualification or equivalent and be members of the professional body, the Nursing and Midwifery Board or Ireland (NMBI).
• Candidates must be working in an area of practice where they are likely to encounter the need to undertake minor surgical skin procedures, and must provide detials of their clinial base in their application.
• Candidates who meet the requirements above will also be required to provide a completed Engagement Agreement from their employer prior to registration.

Please review the application instructions prior to starting your application.

In your application use micro-credential code NUR1121.