Advance Nurse Practitioners (ANPs)
Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ANPs) are highly trained professionals with a master’s degree in advanced practice. They are skilled and competent to work at this level. As leaders in healthcare, they have the authority to make decisions and take full responsibility for their actions.
ANPs work independently and make important decisions, including:
- Assessing patients.
- Diagnosing health problems, even when they are complicated.
- Treating patients, including prescribing medication.
They use their expert knowledge and skills to decide what care a patient needs. This includes being able to refer patients to specialists, admit them to the hospital when appropriate.
Colleen Reid
Corinne Cairns
Practice Nurses
Ann Sutherland
Maggie Kingett-Falconer
Julie Clarke (CTAC)
Caron Fletcher (CTAC)
Practice Nurses are fully trained in a wide range of skills including health promotion, contraception and management of long-term conditions e.g. advise on diet and lifestyle choices, coronary heart disease, hypertension, asthma, diabetes, and obesity. Practice Nurses can extend their skills at Diploma Level and see many patients who previously would have seen the Doctor.
The Nursing Team run various Nurse-led clinics for diabetes, asthma, coronary heart disease and COPD as well as providing general nursing services, dressings, removal of sutures and blood tests.
PHLEBOTOMIST
Garreth Davies is our practice phlebotomist, he has appointments four mornings per week. He is responsible for taking blood tests.
