The Team Around the Patient Flashcards
What are the 10 main roles in the PHCT (primary healthcare team)
- GP partners
- GP assistants and other salaried doctors
- GP registrars
- Practice nurses
- Practice managers
- Nurse practitioners
- Community nurses
- Midwives
- Health visitors
- Receptionists
6 points on the role of the GP
- 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 are the main roles of a macmillan nurse [3]
Specialise in cancer and palliative care [1]
Provide support and information to people with cancer and their families, friends and carers, [1] from the point of diagnosis onwards [1]
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 [2]
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 [2] and 5 responsibilities
Interpretation and communication of nutrition [1] to enable people to make informed and practical choices about food and lifestyle in health and disease [1]
- work with people with special dietary needs
- evaluate and improve treatments
- inform general public about nutrition
- educate patients/clients, other healthcare professionals and community groups, offer unbiased advice
3 roles of Physiotherapist
- Help treat people with physical problems caused by illness, accident or ageing
- Manual therapy
- Therapeutic exercise