The Team Around the Patient Flashcards
Name roles of the traditions Primary Healthcare Team (PHCT)
GP partners, assistants and registrar Practice nurses Practice managers Receptionists Community nurses Midwives Health visitors Nurse practitioners
What are the roles of GP in the PHCT?
spectrum of care within the local community: dealing with problems that often combine physical, psychological and social components. They increasingly work in teams with other professions, helping patients to take responsibility for their own health.
What is the significance of GPs being independent contractors of the NHS?
Provides independence so they are responsible for providing adequate premises from which to practice and for employing their own staff.
What are the roles of Practice nurses in the PHCT?
Bloods ECGs Wound management (ulcers) Travel health advice and vaccinations Child immunisations Family planning & women’s health (cervical smears) Men’s health screening Sexual health services Smoking cessation.
Where do district nurses work?
They visit people in their own homes or in residential care homes, providing increasingly complex care for patients and supporting family members.
What are the primary responsibilities of a district nurse?
Direct patient care, and a teaching and support role; working with patients to enable them to care for themselves or with family members teaching them how to give care to their relatives. They are also accountable for their own patient caseloads.
What is the secondary roles of district nurses?
Keep admissions and readmissions down and ensuring that patients can return to their own homes as soon as possible.
They assess the healthcare needs of patients and families, monitor the quality of care they’re receiving and are professionally accountable for delivery of care.
What is the role of the midwife in the PHCT?
Provide care during all stages of pregnancy, labour and the early postnatal period.
Working mostly in community but also in clinic and GP surgeries.
What is the role of a health visitor?
Leading and deliver child and family health services (pregnancy through to 5 years)
- Offer parenting support
- New birth visit i.e. hep on feeding
- Support post natal depression etc
What are macmillan nurses?
Specialised nurses in cancer and palliative care, proving support and information to people with cancer, and their families and friends
What are the roles of macmillan nurses?
Specialised pain and symptom control
Emotional support both for the patient and their family or carer
NOT involved in routine tasks i.e. personal hygiene, changing dressings
Name six allied health professionals
Physiotherapy
Occupational Therapy
Dietetics
Podiatry
Pharmacy
Counselling
What is the role of a pharmacist?
Advise medical and nursing staff on the selection and appropriate use of medicines. They provide information to patients on how to manage their medicines to ensure optimal treatment.
What is the role of a dietetics?
Enable people to make informed and practical choices about food and lifestyle in health and disease.
What is the role of a physiotherapist?
Carry out manual therapy, therapeutic exercise and the application of electro-physical modalities. They also have an appreciation of psychological, cultural and social factors influencing their clients.
Maximise movement through health promotion
