Primary Care Treatment Room Practice Nurse

Primary Care Treatment Room Practice Nurse

To provide and maintain a high standard of nursing care for patients, as well as providing nursing assistance to the doctors and other members of the primary healthcare team. The duties will include all tasks normally undertaken by an experienced RGN and any additional roles agreed between the nurse and the doctors as appropriate, having regard to current training. Typical duties include: holding patient consultations within the surgery carrying out physical examinations and tests such as cervical smear treating wounds applying and removing dressings giving advice, education and information about stopping smoking and losing weight taking patient samples, swabs and specimens, and checking pulses, temperatures and blood pressures administering immunisations, travel vaccinations and infant injections writing records and keeping patients notes up to date assisting GPs with minor procedures.