Primary care's scope demands a wide range of nursing expertise
In primary care settings, nurses face many challenges demanding expertise in a broad range of personal, professional and clinical skills. Primary Health Care’s evidence & practice articles cover a wide array of nursing topics to help you
Nurses face many challenges requiring expertise in personal, professional and clinical skills, Primary Health Care’s evidence & practice articles can help you
Nursing is surely one of the most diverse careers, encompassing a huge range of specialisms, responsibilities and working environments. In primary care settings, nurses face many challenges demanding expertise in a broad range of personal, professional and clinical skills.
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Consequently, we try to encompass as wide an array of nursing topics as possible in Primary Health Care. Our latest evidence & practice articles, as ever, should help you to expand your knowledge and hone your approach to nursing as the demands on primary care and community nurses are boundless, and challenges can appear from unexpected directions.
‘The demands on primary care and community nurses are boundless and challenges can appear from unexpected directions’
Yellow fever vaccination: the importance of taking a cardiac surgery history considers the topic from the perspective of taking a detailed cardiac surgery history. While the vaccination is generally well tolerated, it is associated with two serious adverse events unique to it, namely yellow fever vaccine-associated neurologic disease and yellow fever vaccine-associated viscerotropic disease.
Those at risk include people who may have undergone incidental thymectomy during cardiac surgery, hence the reason for taking a thorough medical history as part of a pre-vaccination risk assessment.
Leadership and coordinating roles of community matrons
Shifting the focus to community nursing, Exploring place-based care and the role of the community matron in delivering proactive frailty care looks at the leadership and coordinating role of community matrons in supporting a multidisciplinary team approach to identifying local population health needs and delivering the appropriate care.
Our third E&P article, Advance care planning: a qualitative study into its use by advanced clinical practitioners in general practice, explores the barriers to, and facilitators of, advance care planning. It is one of those nursing areas where empathy, emotional sensitivity and top-notch communication skills come to the fore, demonstrating just one aspect of how complex and demanding primary care nursing can be.
