Health visitor scheme a success. (news).(offering parents and children the...

Nursing Standard;  April 2, 2003 ;     202 words ......and children the chance to see a health visitor at their local GP surgery instead...Competencies are monitored by GPs and practice nurses. The scheme offers care at short...minutes if you are lucky,' Croydon's health visitor team leader Jenny Giles told a conference...a doctor and ...

Practice nurses needed for survey.(research)

Australian Nursing Journal;  March 1, 2007 ;     351 words ...Practice nurses are being urged to take part in a national...Melbourne, Dr Catherine Joyce, to survey 500 practice nurses. Dr Joyce said there had been some small scale research of practice nurses in Australia however this will be the largest...

Practice nurses are unique: Sue Nutbrown, new RCN Practice Nurse...

Primary Health Care;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......beginning of some major changes for practice nurses. Not that things have stood still...be faced this year: * employment of practice nurses * the new framework for nursing in...Change. The new GP contract gives practice nurses new opportunities to develop and provide...

Bright future for practice nurses

Community Practitioner;  July 1, 2003 ;     405 words ......some of the specific challenges that practice nurses have had to face and are facing at...the new GP contract. The number of practice nurses soared, as health promotion became...structure. Now there is a shortage of practice nurses as many are at retiring age, some...

Practice nurses want employment choice. (Reports from RCN Annual Congress...

Primary Health Care;  June 1, 2003 ;     307 words ...Practice nurses should not be forced to work directly...said: 'The overwhelming view is that practice nurses want to be able to make the choice...There is no evidence to show that practice nurses are in favour of PCT employment...

GPs a barrier to practice nurses.(NAT)

Australian Nursing Journal;  June 1, 2005 ;     327 words ......not properly understand the role of practice nurses and are not aware of the benefits...suggests the expansion of the role of practice nurses as providers of primary health care...as allocating provider numbers to practice nurses and increasing the item numbers for...

Increase autonomy for practice nurses.(NATIONAL)

Australian Nursing Journal;  April 1, 2008 ;     339 words ...[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Practice nurses should be given greater autonomy...Medicare payment scheme to enable practice nurses to see patients for health...nurses in general practice. Practice nurses are not using all their skills...

Awards for general practice nurses.

The Lamp;  July 1, 2008 ;     233 words ...The Australian Practice Nurses Association (APNA) is calling...Matyear said recognising the role practice nurses play in delivering high quality...reward the wide variety of roles practice nurses undertake,' she said. Prizes...

Practice nurses ratify agreement.(Sector Reports)

Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand;  February 1, 2005 ;     341 words ...Practice nurses around the country have ratified a collective...over 18 months in three staged increases. The practice nurses' collective agreement covers around 750 practice nurses. NZNO advocate Chris Wilson said that acceptance...

Practice nurses opt for choice. (Editorial).

Primary Health Care;  June 1, 2003 ;     423 words ......nurses was the debate on practice nurses being employed by the NHS...GPs (see news on page 7). Practice nurses made their views quite clear...the RCN to lobby for the practice nurses to cease their GP employment...

Pay talks continue for practice nurses. (news).(Brief Article)

Nursing Standard;  February 12, 2003 ;     99 words ...PRACTICE NURSES will have to wait and see if they...unions have agreed in principle that practice nurses throughout the UK should be allowed...talks are continuing. Currently most practice nurses are employed by GPs, often on inferior...

Practice nurses to choose NHS or GP bosses. (news: pay).(National Health...

Nursing Standard;  January 29, 2003 ;     131 words ...SOME PRACTICE nurses stand to be among the biggest...has agreed in principle to allow practice nurses across the UK to choose whether...equivalent bodies. `We are hopeful that practice nurses will be able to be employed by...

Practice nurses meet in Nelson

The Nelson Mail;  May 1, 2003 ;     145 words ......weekend for an annual conference of practice nurses. The New Zealand College of Practice Nurses, which is associated with the NZ Nurses...primary health organisations, the role of practice nurses was increasingly important. About 2000...

Audit Commission analysis finds skills of practice nurses 'not fully...

Community Practitioner;  August 1, 2002 ;     303 words ......Primary care should make better use of practice nurses and other community practitioners...treatment rooms. Meanwhile, the skills of practice nurses are not fully utilised, the report...are not compensated by having more practice nurses, and these `under-- doctored' places...

How employment structures affect nursing practice: nurses' employment...

Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......example, when it is suggested that practice nurses don't need to be employed by GPs...by evidence. The structure in which practice nurses are employed by GPs needs to be re-evaluat...relationship? Of course, this assumes that practice nurses in fact practise autonomously, and...