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PRACTICE NURSE
Sister Janet Cunniffe
Janet is responsible for
running most of the chronic disease
management services (High Blood
Pressure, Angina, Diabetes, Asthma,
COPD, Kidney Chronic Disease) as
well as pill checks, Cervical
smears, HRT checks and general
health promotional advice including
smoking cessation work and baby
immunisations. She also does the new
patient checks and can assist with
other issues such as where someone
may wish to consult a female about a
sensitive health issue. If doing
this it is important to bear in mind
she isn’t trained as a doctor and as
such may need to get help from one
of the doctors but clearly this
would be done in a sensitive and
tactful manner.
Although she is a nurse and is
trained in all routine treatment
room type
procedures such as dressings, ear
syringing etc, due to time pressures
she is unable to routinely offer
these services and instead will
direct you to the treatment room
service run by the
district nurse.
Student Practice Nurses
These are generally fully
qualified nurses who are
specialising in Practice
Nursing. They are with us generally
for a six to twelve month period and
undertake all the normal duties of a
practice nurse. Again they are
clearly supervised during this time
and so occasionally the consultation
may take longer than might typically
be expected due to these checks.
These are to ensure your
satisfaction and health so please
bear with us should this be the
case.
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