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Welcome to the Journal of General Practice Nursing (GPN) website

Journals and supplements

Journal of General Practice Nursing (GPN)

Journal of General Practice Nursing (GPN)

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The Journal of General Practice Nursing is published quarterly in association with Education for Health. The journal provides up-to-the-minute features and expert clinical guidance on how general practice nurses (GPNs) can take a proactive approach to working with other members of the primary care team. With its detailed analysis and comment from leading nursing figures, it also offers clinical education to help challenge and develop practice.
Care Today

Care Today

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The Care Today series of annual journals cover specific areas of care vital for your day-to-day practice, including Wound Care Today, Skin Care Today and Respiratory Care Today. Their easy-to-read style combines education and practical tips that focus on issues central to good patient care.

Supplements and other resources

Supplements and other resources

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To help you in your day-to-day practice, JCN and GPN regularly produces supplements to provide education in key areas of clinical practice.

This currently includes 'Wound care in the community' and 'Challenging your practice: venous leg ulcers', as well as 'Evaluation of a dynamic mattress replacement system within a community setting'.

Posters

Posters

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Here is a list of all of the current Posters available on the site. Click on the link to download.

Recent journal articles

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Pneumonia is an invasive opportunistic infection which can affect any age group. The very young, the very old and those with chronic disease are most vulnerable and to protect these groups there are two types of pneumonia vaccine which are specific for these groups, although there is some overlap. To make learning more enjoyable, here, Kirsty Armstrong, has developed this wordsearch as part of a teaching programme about vaccines and immunisation. As an advanced nurse practitioner (ANP) in out of hours (OOH) and lecturer in primary and urgent care, finding new ways of making immunisation schedules memorable is always a challenge.


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Are we asking GPNs to become wound care experts?

Are we asking GPNs to become wound care experts?

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In each issue of the Journal of General Practice Nursing, we investigate a topic currently affecting our readers. With more and more patients being seen with complex wounds in primary care, here we consider Are we asking GPNs to become wound care experts?

Pneumonia wordsearch

Pneumonia wordsearch

Read more View online

Pneumonia is an invasive opportunistic infection which can affect any age group. The very young, the very old and those with chronic disease are most vulnerable and to protect these groups there are two types of pneumonia vaccine which are specific for these groups, although there is some overlap. T

Thinking of writing for GPN?

If you would like to write for the Journal of General Practice Nursing, please contact Binkie: Binkie@jcn.co.uk