General practice student nurses: let's stop the poaching model

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 300-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaun Heath

As nursing continues to experience shortages across the profession, Shaun Heath explores how the primary care setting can use student nurses on placement to remedy this issue and the added value they can bring to your practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 223-244
Author(s):  
Philippa Edwards

This chapter contains 34 questions that encompass all of the important areas of primary care, with detailed explanations. They will assess your knowledge in the common areas that present, testing diagnostic skills and reasoning. They also test negotiating skills to ensure patient compliance, teamworking within the primary care setting, and risk management. Unique to this series, questions are rated by difficulty and are cross-referenced to the eleventh edition of Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialties to track revision progress and revise effectively.


Author(s):  
Elena Tsarouha ◽  
Christine Preiser ◽  
Birgitta Weltermann ◽  
Florian Junne ◽  
Tanja Seifried-Dübon ◽  
...  

General practices are established microenterprises in Germany providing a variety of preventive and therapeutic health care services and procedures in a challenging working environment. For example, general practice teams are confronted increasingly with work-related demands, which have been associated with poor psychological and physical outcomes. It is therefore important to gain a better understanding of issues related to occupational health and safety for personnel working in the primary care setting. This study aims to gain an in-depth understanding of psychosocial demands and resources in the primary care setting. We applied an ethnographic design, comprising a combination of participating observations, individual interviews with general practitioners (GPs) (N = 6), and focus group discussion with practice assistants and administrative staff (N = 19) in five general practices in Germany. A grounded theory approach was applied to analyze all data. Our results identified psychosocial demands and resources exemplified mainly along two typical tasks in GP practices: the issuing of medical prescriptions and blood sampling. Main psychosocial demands included factors related to work content and tasks, organization of work, and the working environment. For example, daily routines across all practices were characterized by a very high work intensity including disturbances, interruptions, delegation, and the division of labor between GPs and practice staff. Work-related resources comprised the staff’s influence on aspects related to work organization and social support. The triangulation of methods and data formats allowed the disclosure of interconnectedness between these factors. Although work processes in general practices are complex and required to comply with legal regulations, there are opportunities for practice owners and practice teams to establish working procedures in ways that reduce psychosocial risks and strengthen work-related resources.


Organization ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth McDonald ◽  
Stephen Harrison ◽  
Kath Checkland

1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 553-555
Author(s):  
Jonathan Scott

Many psychiatrists now work successfully in the primary care setting. Although a primary care post might be considered to be a useful experience by most trainees, few undertake such an attachment, owing to lacked opportunities and concern that such a placement would delay career progress or be at the expense of psychiatric subspeciality experience (Burns, 1994). For general practice posts to be integrated into psychiatric training, these concerns need to be addressed. One solution has been a post shared with general psychiatry (Balmer, 1993). This paper describes an alternative approach, a post combining subspeciality experience in psychotherapy within the practice setting, with working as a general practitioner (GP) trainee.


1990 ◽  
Vol 14 (12) ◽  
pp. 727-729 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila M. Curran ◽  
Ian M. Pullen

The practice of out-patient psychiatry has undergone a number of significant developments in recent years: the number of patients referred by general practitioners has steadily increased: a large number of psychiatrists are now seeing patients in the primary care setting and more patients are being seen on one occasion only.


1985 ◽  
Vol 146 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Wilson ◽  
Katherine Wilson

SummaryExperiences arising from the work of a multi-disciplinary psychotherapy liaison team in the primary care setting are described. Special emphasis is given to the difficulties encountered in working relationships. Attention is drawn to the complexity of the inter-professional relationship, its unconscious roots, and its influence on the quality of patient care.


1990 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Strathdee ◽  
M. B. King ◽  
R. Araya ◽  
S. Lewis

SYNOPSISGeneral practice based psychiatric clinics have increased in number in recent years. Case-note and case-register data examining the nature of the psychiatric disorder of the patients seen in this setting have shown contradictory findings. In this study comparison of 113 patients referred to primary care and hospital out-patient clinics is made using standardized clinical and social measures. Our results show that both groups had similar degrees of physical and social dysfunction and comparable levels of psychiatric morbidity. However, in the primary care population there were more women, and schizophreniform psychoses predominated. In the hospital sample affective illnesses and personality disorders were more common. The majority of patients preferred to consult in the primary care setting.


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