{"id":156,"date":"2010-11-25T14:08:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T14:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/?p=156"},"modified":"2015-06-12T16:21:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T15:21:03","slug":"role-of-the-nurse-practitionerpractice-nurse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Role of the Nurse Practitioner\/Practice Nurse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nurse practitioners<\/strong> are becoming more common in larger practices. They have additional training and responsibilities.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Assisting the GP with minor surgical procedures<\/li>\n<li>Immunisations such as flu jabs<\/li>\n<li>Advice and support for patients and carers<\/li>\n<li>Health screening for example weight checks.<\/li>\n<li>Health promotion for example help to stop smoking<\/li>\n<li>Nurse led clinics for diabetics, asthma or long term conditions<\/li>\n<li>Issue of some prescriptions for certain medicines, disposable items and equipment<\/li>\n<li>Some blood tests<\/li>\n<li>Routine procedures such as wound dressings, blood pressure monitoring<\/li>\n<li>Working and coordinating services\u00a0with other health professionals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">( add picture of nurse)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nurse practitioners are becoming more common in larger practices. They have additional training and responsibilities. Assisting the GP with minor surgical procedures Immunisations such as flu jabs Advice and support for patients and carers Health screening for example weight checks. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/?p=156\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[91,92],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nurse-practitioner","tag-practice-nurse"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6383,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/6383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}