Team around the patient Flashcards
Who is involved in the PHCT? (primary health care team)
- GP partners
- GP assistants and other salaried doctors
- GP registrars
- Practice nurses
- Practice managers
- Receptionists
- Community nurses
- Midwives
- Health visitors
- Nurse practitioners
What is the role of GP partner?
- Dealing with problems that often combine physical, psychological and social components. They increasingly work in teams with other professions, helping patients to take responsibility for their own health.
- Providing adequate premises from which to practise and for employing their own staff
What is the role of Practice nurse?
- They might be involved in most aspects of patient care including:
- obtaining blood samples
- ECGs
- minor and complex wound management including leg ulcers
- travel health advice and vaccinations
- child immunisations and advice
- family planning & women’s health including cervical smears
- men’s health screening
- sexual health services
- smoking cessation.
What is role of district nurse?
They visit people in their own homes or in residential care homes, providing increasingly complex care for patients and supporting family members.
Have a teaching and support role, working with patients to enable them to care for themselves or with family members teaching them how to give care to their relatives
What is role of midwife?
provide care during all stages of pregnancy, labour and the early postnatal period
What is role of health visitor?
Lead and deliver child and family health services (pregnancy through to 5 years)
Provide ongoing additional services for vulnerable children and families
Safeguarding
What is role of Macmillan Nurse?
- Specialised pain and symptom control
- Emotional support both for the patient and their family or carer
- Care in a variety of settings – in hospital (both inpatient and outpatient), at home or from a local clinic
- Information about cancer treatments and side effects
- Advice to other members of the caring team, for example district nurses and Marie Curie nurses
- Co-ordinated care between hospital and the patient’s home
- Advice on other forms of support, including financial help.
What are the allied health professionals?
- Physiotherapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Dietetics
- Podiatry
- Pharmacy
- Counselling
What is role of pharmacist?
- advise medical and nursing staff on the selection and appropriate use of medicines. They provide information to patients on how to manage their medicines to ensure optimal treatment.
What are the roles of dieticians?
- working with people with special dietary needs
- informing the general public about nutrition
- offering unbiased advice
- evaluating and improving treatments
- educating patients/clients, other healthcare professionals and community groups.
What is role of physiotherapist?
- include manual therapy, therapeutic exercise and the application of electro-physical modalities. They also have an appreciation of psychological, cultural and social factors influencing their clients
What is role of OT?
- physical rehabilitation
- mental health services
- learning disability
- primary care
- paediatrics
- environmental adaptation
- care management
- equipment for daily living
What is the role of care manager?
Care managers are experts in working with individuals to identify their goals and locate the specific support services that enhance well-being.
What are some factors affecting PHCT?
- Economic factors will have a big impact on the development of healthcare premises. The development of healthcare premises affects the PHCT because:
- About 60% of primary healthcare premises are still owned by GPs
- There are political pressures to:
- Reduce the cost of treatments.
- Provide more treatments closer to where patients live.
- Growing number of ageing patients
What is the role of the PHCT as a whole?
Recognise and include the patient, carer, or their representative, as an essential member of the primary healthcare team at individual patient-centred team level or at practice level.
