Primary care case studies for nurse practitioners

Practice nurses and nurse practitioners working
alongside general practitioners are required to see
and treat patients with a variety of minor and complex
conditions. They therefore need skills in history-taking,
physical assessment, diagnosing, prescribing and
managing long-term conditions. It is assumed that
nurses who read this book will have experience in
managing the care of babies, children, well young
people, people for whom English is not their fi rst
language, people with mental health problems and
older people with multiple health problems. These
case studies are loosely based on interactions that the
author has had with patients in Primary Care.