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2019
- MarMar 2019 - Volume 5, Number 1
• What does being a GPN mean to you?
• News Update
• Many women are living longer with symptoms of the menopause
• NHS Long Term Plan: an opportunity to improve respiratory care
• Dermatological conditions: looking beyond physical appearance
• Why NICE guidance matters for wound care
• Foot health and primary care
• Improvements to national cancer screening programmes
• Chronic wounds and their effect on patient quality of life
• Bronchiectasis: recognising symptoms and management in general practice
• Skin tears: a case-based and practical overview of prevention, assessment and management
• Assessment and management of acne in a primary care setting
• Experiencing life on the streets
• Jobs - JunJun 2019 - Volume 5, Number 2
• Enabling good nutritional care for patients with COPD
• GPNs are vital to general practice
• News update
• Vaccination should be mandatory for school entry
• Vitamin D: what are the facts?
• Improving clinical outcomes through working in partnership
• Making every moment count to protect patients from skin cancer
• Effective wound assessment for general practice nurses
• Do we overlook the patient while caring for their wound?
• Promoting healthy arteries: diagnosing and managing PAD
• Long-term wounds in the older person: exploring the issues
• Measles on the rise: why and what GPNs can do to protect patients, themselves and colleagues
• Contraceptive choices: an update for GPNs
• What does the NHS Long Term Plan mean for GPNs? - SepSep 2019 - Volume 5, Number 3
• Your primary care network needs you
• Understanding new guidelines, or starting a postgraduate programme…
• What do the new primary care networks mean for GPNs?
• Leadership roles for GPNs in primary care networks
• The Digital Nurse Network: creating confidence and competence
• New campaign supports people with long-term conditions to be more active
• Improving wound healing through high-quality wound care practice
• Understanding the exudate factor: assessment and management
• Comparison of manual and automated ABPI recording in patients
• Taking a patient history as part of respiratory assessment
• Influenza vaccines: why so much change?
• Exploring the decision-making processes utilised by advanced nurse practitioners: a case study
• Crossword — medico-legal issues
2018
- MarMar 2018 - Volume 4, Number 1
• The human touch of general practice nursing
• News update from Education for Health
• What’s being done to encourage nurses to return to practice
• Placing our best leg forward: preventing lower leg conditions for our workforce and the general public
• Keeping the humanity in health care
• Healthier lifestyles
• Is it premature for public health authorities to promote e-cigarettes?
• Sustainability and transformation partnerships for England and the challenges they face
• PCRS-UK — A pragmatic approach to conflicting asthma guidelines
• COPD exacerbations: causes and management
• Managing infection in chronic wounds in primary care
• Irritable bowel syndrome in general practice
• Aspirin: transforming health care for 120 years and still rolling
• Undertaking ear assessment and irrigation
• NICE indicators for hypertension
• Our practice
• Jobs - AugAug 2018 - Volume 4, Number 2
• GPN leadership - raising our voice
• News update from Education for Health
• What’s being done to develop the next generation of GPNs
• Greener practice: actions to improve the health of patients and the planet
• PCRS-UK — Reducing variations in standards of respiratory care
• A clinical heritage to trust
• Assessment and nursing management of lymphoedema
• A new spray-on chitosan FH02™ dressing for venous leg ulcers: an evaluation
• Eczema and the influence of environmental factors
• Interstitial lung disease: diagnosis and management
• Improving shingles vaccination uptake
• How diet can help women to survive the menopause
• Our practice
• Jobs - OctOct 2018 - Volume 4, Number 3
• News update
• What should GPNs be doing to tackle obesity?
• Ensuring the most efficient delivery system for flu vaccination
• Measles: time to be vigilant
• Always Events® and ‘what matters to you?’
• PCRS-UK — How to be more self-confident at work
• Identification and management of biofilm in chronic wounds
• Lipoedema — a fat disorder: considerations for GPNs
• Clinical assessment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• Understanding the 2018–19 influenza immunisation programme
• Travel-related communicable disease awareness
• Our practice - DecDec 2018 - Volume 4, Number 4
• What’s your GPN story?
• News update
• Correct inhaler technique matters
• Psychological care for patients with long-term conditions
• Campaign champions nursing career opportunities
• Radical service improves outcomes for patients with IBS in primary care
• Encouraging male nurses into general practice nursing
• We’re all crucial to reducing cancer risk and improving patient outcomes
• Wound cleansing and debridement in practice
• Holistic care for surgical wounds: a practical guide
• Assessment and management of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
• How GPNs can meet the challenges of frailty in primary care
• An overview of using an asset-based approach to nursing
• General practice nurse-led cancer care reviews
• Improving access to health care for Gypsy and Traveller communities
2017
- MarMar 2017 - Volume 3, Number 1
• Striving for continuous improvement
• News update from education for health
• Does the colour of inhaler devices really matter?
• New standards in inhaler competencies
• Improving wound care through reducing variation in practice
• Reducing undernutrition in older people
• British guideline on managing asthma: a new philosophy
• General practice nursing: leadership for quality programme
• Outcomes-based nursing: what would it look like?
• Skin/wound cleansing and debridement in general practice
• Encouraging self-care in venous leg ulceration
• Causes, signs and symptoms of non-melanoma and malignant melanoma skin cancer: part 2
• Management of lymphoedema in primary care
• Home oxygen therapy: what, when and why
• Role of GPNs in caring for patients with prostate cancer
• Spirometry, history-taking or record-keeping?
• Our practice - JunJun 2017 - Volume 3, Number 2
• Education for Health: improving lives for 30 years
• Evidence at the heart of education
• News update from Education for Health
• How ready are you to play your part?
• Charity offers comprehensive advice and support for people with allergies
• Job descriptions for nurses working in primary care
• UK Stroke Forum: a united force for stroke care
• Why diet and lifestyle matter to ward off heart disease
• PCRS-UK - inspiring lifelong change
• Expectations for healing venous leg ulcers in general practice
• Identifing and managing chronic oedema
• Assessment of venous leg ulcers in primary care
• Breathing pattern disorders: identifying and managing in primary care
• Identification and appropriate treatment of malnutrition
• How to help patients who are seeking advice about travel vaccinations
• Looking after children with skin conditions on holiday
• All GPNs play a vital role in cancer care
• Dementia: communication and care in practice
• Respiratory care in today’s NHS: findings from an interactive wall - SepSep 2017 - Volume 3, Number 3
• Welcome from the new editor-in-chief
• News update from Education for Health
• Practice matters: What Resilience means for general practice teams
• Self-management programme of activity, coping and education
• Improving early detection of lung cancer and COPD
• World COPD Day: a day to raise awareness of the UK’s fifth biggest killer
• Reading Well Books on Prescription programme
• Demystifying National Institute for Health and Care Excellence quality standards
• Promoting concordance in oedema maintenance therapy
• Nurse consultation: Role of self-care to prevent venous leg ulcer recurrence
• Unravelling compression therapy for venous leg ulcers in general practice
• Asthma exacerbation and the return-to-school calendar
• Managing the skin in primary care: an overview for GPNs
• Future of the seasonal influenza immunisation programme
• Key principles of care for patients with diabetes
• Our practice
• Jobs - DecDec 2017 - Volume 3, Number 4
• Now is the time of the general practice nurse
• Education for Health news update
• It's time to get to grips with wound assessment
• Investing in education directly impacts on patient outcomes
• A passport to good health: new app helps children manage their asthma
• Health visitors for older people: building working relationships with GPNS
• Peanut and tree nut allergy: getting the right advice to the right people
• New voluntary standards promote consistent and structured GPN education
• Hands-on perspective of using technology enabled services
• PCRS-UK - supporting self-management
• Role of triple therapy and patient management in COPD
• Stroke: taking action on a global killer
• What is screening? The background, definitions and criteria
• An overview of the care of minor traumatic wounds
• Telemedicine in wound care: improving patient outcomes
• Fighting the stigma of asthma in adolescents
• Our Practice - Karen Smithson
2016
- JanJan 2016 - Volume 2, Number 1
• A new year, new challenges - are we ready for change?
• Education for Health news update
• Practice matters — How GPNs can support people with multiple sclerosis
• Launch of 21st century GPN report heralds new opportunities
• The expert generalist team
• Could nurse-led general practice solve the GP workforce crisis?
• Supporting patients with pulmonary fibrosis
• Helping people quit
• Using quality assured spirometry to support diagnosis
• Optimising blood pressure management
• National dementia strategy care pathway: knowing and doing
• A new era of health promotion: saving lives, saving the NHS
• Developing student nurse placements in general practice
• Learning Zone: Record keeping: essential to good practice
• Our practice - MarMar 2016 - Volume 2, Number 2
• GPNs must prepare for new models of health care
• News update from education for health
• Is it time to accept that there is a crisis in the GPN workforce?
• Thinking kidneys: changing and saving lives
• Social prescribing: helping those living with and beyond cancer
• Defining the role of ANPs in today’s healthcare arena
• Prostate cancer care closer to home: a new model of care
• Making a good diagnosis — obstructive lung disease
• Blood glucose monitoring in non insulin dependent type 2 diabetes
• Identifying and supporting patients with coeliac disease
• Hay fever: diagnosis and management
• The truth about constipation: what general practice nurses need to know
• Effective debridement can be achieved in a busy clinic environment
• Emotional pathway to self-management in COPD
• Managing wounds in primary care
• Our practice - MayMay 2016 - Volume 2, Number 3
• The life-changing effect of tragic events
• News update from Education for Health
• How can we stop Britain from being ‘the fat man of Europe’?
• Why obesity is keeping the NOF’s spokesman busy
• Eczema in the summer months
• Staying on message: ensuring people with MS access specialist services
• Birth of the super generalist practice nurse
• Innovative compression therapy systems can improve practice
• Review of hormone replacement therapy: new NICE guidelines
• The who, where, why and how of inhaler technique
• Chronic kidney disease: detection and management for GPNs
• Health benefits and barriers with recommending physical activity
• Integrating care for cardiovascular disease
• C-reactive protein point-of-care testing for lower respiratory tract infections
• Our practice - MayMay 2016 - Volume 2, Issue 1 (Skin Care Today)
- JulJul 2016 - Volume 2, Number 4
• Time to challenge and address variation in practice
• News update from education for health
• Nicotine: time for a rethink?
• Leading Change, Adding Value: a framework for nursing, midwifery and care staff
• New voluntary standards for education and practice
• A breath of fresh air? Healthy Lungs for Life in London
• The missing million: in search of the loneliest in our communities
• Appropriate compression is necessary to prevent recurrence in venous leg ulceration
• Ask the expert — How GPNs can tackle the rising problem of obesity and type 2 diabetes
• Performing a structured asthma review in primary care
• Diagnosing and managing chronic urticaria in primary care
• Causes, signs and symptoms of non-melanoma and malignant melanoma skin cancer: part 1
• What kind of advice should GPNs offer cruise ship passengers?
• Managing exudate and preventing biofilms in primary care
• Our practice - SepSep 2016 - Volume 2, Number 5
• Promoting lung health and respiratory care
• News update from education for health
• What will Brexit mean for GPNs?
• Devices, drugs and guidelines: prescribing inhaler therapy
• Competence and confidence in diagnostic spirometry
• Helping the public think kidneys for health
• The battle for breath why GPNs are key to good COPD care
• Nutrition and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• Migraine: practical diagnosis in primary care — part one
• Caring for tattoos and body piercings: a wound management perspective
• GPNs’ trusted and key role in the extension of the influenza immunisation programme to children
• Perinatal mental health and general practice nursing
• The realities of advanced nursing care in the community
• Our practice - NovNov 2016 - Volume 2, Number 6
• Time to embrace new ways of working
• News update from education for health
• Can group consultations restore the joy to clinical practice?
• Skin and wound care and general practice nursing
• Working with families struggling to manage atopic eczema
• QNI’s annual conference: inspiring quality and success in nursing
• Joining the technological revolution
• Personalised asthma action plans: what is all the fuss about?
• Practical diabetes and dietary management in general practice nursing
• Atopic eczema and emollients: guidance for GPNs
• Migraine: practical management in primary care — part two
• Motivational interviewing to help patients achieve dietary and lifestyle changes
• Consultation with children: challenges, rights and responsibilities
• Our practice
2015
- AprApr 2015 - Volume 1, Issue 1 (Skin Care Today)
- AprApr 2015 - Volume 2, Issue 1 (WCT)
- MayMay 2015 - Volume 1, Number 1
• Welcome to the new Journal of General Practice Nursing
• Education for Health news update
• Will you be ready for the NMC’s new revalidation programme?
• A closer look at NICE and its goal of excellence to aid practice
• What is the workforce crisis?
• QNI survey aims to give nurses a voice and bolster new campaign for GPNs
• A challenge to traditional practice: new ways to treat venous leg ulcers
• Join the BHF Alliance and help lead the fight for change
• Female genital mutilation: commissioning and safeguarding
• How to use a small volume spacer
• Caring for people with diabetes in the community
• Childhood eczema: a parent’s perspective
• Getting the most from CVD reviews: for you and your patient
• Personalised asthma action plans for patient education and self-management
• Risk assessment and resources for the travel health consultation
• Practical weight management in general practice nursing
• Prevention in the Five Year Forward View: an opportunity for general practice nurse leadership
• Compression hosiery kits for the treatment of venous leg ulceration
• Diagnosing and managing pilonidal sinus disease
• Our practice - JulJul 2015 - Volume 1, Number 2
• Future of primary care needs some innovation
• Education for Health news update
• Can the GPN workforce meet the challenge of increased demand?
• Poster series: The Debrisoft difference
• An insight into the mindset behind CQC regulation
• Diabetes UK supports GPNs with collaborative care planning
• New RCN guidance on advanced preparation of insulin syringes
• QNI resources to promote effective working with carers
• Viewpoints: The time is right for GPNs to put their heads above the parapet
• Use of spirometry in the diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• Cost efficacy of using Juxta CURESTM and UCSTM debridement cloths
• Seasonal allergic rhinitis: identification and management
• Solar skin damage and advising on skin cancer prevention
• Nurse and midwifery revalidation: a pilot project supporting GPNs
• Are your wound management choices costing you money?
• How to select the best compression hosiery for your patient
• Our practice - SepSep 2015 - Volume 1, Number 3
• Engaging and involving patients is key for primary care
• Education for Health news update
• Are clinicians taking patient involvement seriously enough?
• UK poised to lead the way in reducing smoking rates
• Flu vaccination for children — fighting flu in our communities
• The importance of keeping the cold chain intact
• PCRS-UK — inspiring best practice in respiratory care
• How to apply an innovative compression device
• Prescribing for type 2 diabetes: a patient-centred approach
• Respiratory disorders: one step forward and two steps sideways
• Identifying and managing atrial fibrillation in primary care — part 1
• Frailty as a long-term condition: its management in primary care
• Vaccination and strategies to increase vaccine coverage
• Using the primary care nursing force to address health inequalities
• Ask the experts: What impact can dressings with the TLC Healing Matrix have on clinical practice?
• Our practice - NovNov 2015 - Volume 1, Number 4
• Getting prepared for chillier weather and Christmas cheer
• Education for Health news update
• Practice matters: Three wishes to secure the future of the GPN workforce
• Malnutrition in COPD: meeting patients’ nutritional needs
• Diabetes education: the big missed opportunity in diabetes care
• Opportunity knocks with new career framework
• Modern management of venous leg ulceration
• Long term conditions: Management of viral-induced wheezing in the preschool child
• Long-term conditions: Identifying and managing atrial fibrillation in primary care — part 2
• How can general practice nurses best manage eating disorders?
• What general practice nurses need to know about colorectal cancer
• When you choose nursing, you also choose the law
• Learning Zone: Recognising and managing patients with interstitial lung disease
• Ask the expert: How can desloughing a wound aid the patient experience?
• Our practice
2014
- AprApr 2014 - Volume 1, Issue 1 (WCT)
