Practice Nurse - General Practice

Practice Nurse - General Practice

Reference: HW-2052

• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care to meet the care needs of patients.
• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that encourage patients to live healthily, and apply principles of self-care around diet, exercise, alcohol, smoking cessation
• Manage patients presenting with wounds including removal of sutures and clips.
• Ensuring safe vaccine and cold chain storage
• Administering routine injections such as B12 and decapeptyl as prescribed by medical prescriber
• Undertake cervical cytology screening on those who are eligible in line with national guidelines following local procedures
• Give women advice on all forms of contraception aiding them to make an informed choice
• Provide sexual health assessment, advice and direct to appropriate testing, performing swabs if necessary.
• To perform venepuncture and NPT
• To perform ECGs
• To provide Hypertension checks, liaising with GP when BP out of target.
• Identify, and manage patients at risk of developing a long-term condition
• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care
• Utilise EMIS web templates to record clinical data.