Minor Illness Nurse

• Attending to patients who wish to be seen by a health care professional to either care for them or if this is not appropriate, triage them to an appropriate appointment with another more appropriate clinician;
• Diagnosing and treating patients presenting with minor illness and treating them following practice guidelines and protocols
• Seeing and advising people in respect of their continuing medical and nursing needs

These patients will have booked appointments at ten-minute intervals.  There is a requirement to see extra or emergency patients.  The nurse practitioner will need to prioritise and triage the needs of patients accordingly making any necessary referrals for investigations in the appropriate manner.  Patients with problems needing referral to secondary care should be discussed with the GP who is supervising or, if unavailable at an appropriate interval with another GP in the practice before making a referral.

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• Degree level nursing qualification.
• Prescribing qualification.
• Minor illness related qualification.