Fundamentals of Community & Primary Care Nursing

Primary care and community settings include walk in centres, community teams, nursing homes, sexual health, diabetes, dermatology and other community led clinics, integrated care centres, substance misuse centres, occupational health providers and indeed any other area where nurses are delivering care and treatment from a setting other than acute care hospitals.

This module provides an opportunity to learn about the relationship between the community environment and health needs, working with families, individuals and other services to deliver the best possible health care and treatment combining this with Health Promotion, prevention and early intervention.

Content

We’ll cover topics to aid transferability of existing skills and the development of new ones, including:

• Perspectives in Community and Primary care Nursing
• Consultation skills, Medicines Management
• The principles of safe clinical assessment (adults, children, older adults, telephone assessment)
• Minor illness, Management of ill health
• Mental Health assessment, Dementia awareness
• Health promotion, prevention and early intervention
• Principles of Health and Safety, Workplace culture (NHS values, 6 C’s), CPD
• Roles and responsibilities, Collaborative working in the Community