The Team Around the Patient Flashcards
What are the 10 main roles in the PHCT
- GP partners
- GP assistants and other salaried doctors
- GP registrars
- Practice nurses
- Practice managers
- Receptionists
- Community nurses
- Midwives
- Health visitors
- Nurse practioners
6 points on GPs
- First point of contact
- Bulk of work done during consultations and home visits
- Provide complete spectrum of care within community
- Deal with physical, psychological and social components of care
- Help patient take responsibility for their own health
- Most GPs are independent contractors so they are responsible for providing adequate premises and employing their staff
What are 9 aspects of patient care may a practice nurse be involved in
- Obtaining blood samples
- ECGs
- Minor and complex wound management including leg ulcers
- Travel health advice and vaccinations
- Child immunisations and advice
- Family planning and women health including cervical smears
- Mens health screening
- Sexual health services
- Smoking cessation
4 roles of district nurse
- Visit people in their own homes or in residential care homes to provide complex care for patients and supporting family
- Teaching and support role by working with patients to enable them to care for themselves or with family members teaching them how to give care to their relatives
- Keep hospital admissions and readmissions to a minimum and ensure that patients can return to their own homes as soon as possible
- Assess the healthcare needs of patients and families and monitor the quality of care they’re receiving
3 roles of midwife
- Provide care during all stages of pregnancy, labour and early postnatal period
- Work in the community to provide services in women’s homes, local clinics, children centres and GP surgeries
- Work in the hospital on antenatal, labour and postnatal wards and neonatal units
3 roles of a health visitor
- Lead and deliver child and family health services (pregnancy through to 5 years)
- Provide ongoing additional services for vulnerable children and families
- Contribute to multidisciplinary services in safeguarding and protecting children
4 Common tasks of a health visitor to help parents adjust to having a child
- Offering parenting support and advice on family health and minor illnesses
- New birth visits - including advice on feeding, weaning and dental health
- Physical and developmental checks
- Providing families with specific support on subjects such as post natal depression
What 3 kinds of support can a health visitor offer to vulnerable children and families
- Referring families to specialists - i.e. speech and language therapists
- Arranging access to support groups
- Organising practical support - i.e. working with a nursery nurse on the importance of play
What do macmillan nurses do
Specialise in cancer and palliative care, provide support and information to people with cancer, and their families, friends and cares, from the point of diagnosis onwards
What 7 things can a macmillan nurse offer
- Specialised pain and symptom control
- Emotional support for patient and family
- Care in a variety of settings - hospital, inpatient and outpatient, at home, local clinic
- Information about cancer treatments and side effects
- Advice to other members of the caring team - i.e. district nurse and Marie curie nurses
- Co-ordinated care between hospital and the patients home
- Advice on other forms of support, including finicial help
What do macmillan nurses not do
Carry out routine nursing tasks
- i.e. personal hygiene, changing dressings and giving medicines
Do not focus on non-cancer patients
6 examples of Allied Health Professionals
Physiotherapy Occupational therapy Dietetics Podiatry Pharmacy Counselling
5 Roles of Pharmacist
Expert in medicines and use
- hospital, community or primary care
- ensure patients get maximum benefit from medications
- advise medical and nursing staff on selection and appropriate use of medicines
- provide info to patients on how to manage their medicines to ensure optimal treatment
- able to prescribe for specific conditions if undertake additional training
Role of Dietetic and 5 responsibilities
Interpretation and communication of nutrition to enable people to make informed and practical choices about food and lifestyle in health and disease.
- work with people with special dietary needs
- inform general public about nutrition
- offer unbiased advice
- evaluate and improve treatments
- educate patients/clients, other healthcare professionals and community groups
3 roles of Physiotherapist
- Help treat people with physical problems caused by illness, accident or ageing
- Manual therapy
- Therapeutic exercise