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Journals and supplements
Journal of General Practice Nursing (GPN)
Care Today
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
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
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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Advanced nurse practitioner
Out-of-hours
Case history
Diagnosis
[article_abstract] => Clinicians working within primary care services tend to do so in isolation and without direct access to investigative resources. This places emphasis on the clinician’s abilities to perform a focused clinical examination and employ sound clinical decision-making processes to reach a definitive diagnosis. This article looks at the case history of a patient presenting to a GP out-of-hours service with an acute, undifferentiated illness, and explores the decisionmaking processes used by the author, a trainee advanced nurse practitioner at the time, to support a working diagnosis and justify a clinically suitable management plan.
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Exploring the decision-making processes utilised by advanced nurse practitioners: a case study
Clinicians working within primary care services tend to do so in isolation and without direct access to investigative resources. This places emphasis on the clinician’s abilities to perform a focused clinical examination and employ sound clinical decision-making processes to reach a definitive diagn
What do the new primary care networks mean for GPNs?
In each issue of the Journal of General Practice Nursing, we investigate a topic currently affecting our readers. Here, we ask what do the new primary care networks mean for GP?
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