NHS Education for Scotland General Practice Nurse Toolkit

This toolkit draws together a range of resources which are useful to nurses in their everyday work. Content was defined through discussion with nurses and content through consultation with subject specialists.

The NHS Education for Scotland General Practice Nurse Toolkit was developed to meet the needs of GPNs through consultation with groups and individuals throughout Scotland about the information that would help them in their everyday work. They recognised that robust information was available on the web but that there were problems in locating this during the time they had available.

The toolkit draws together a wide range of information from reliable sources, many of which were identified through discussion with subject specialists about the sources they use to find information.

 

The content primarily consists of links to wide range information and a series of specially constructed searches

on a range of particularly relevant clinical issues to identify the current literature on these subjects e.g. asthma, depression, diabetes, chronic pain.

 The sections of the toolkit are:

·          clinical resources

·          supporting practice nursing in Scotland

·          supporting care and practice

·          learning and development

·          news and events

·          general links.

 It has been designed to be:

·     responsive to nurse needs and demands

·     dynamic and respond to developments in practice.

The toolkit was launched at the end of June 2008 and in the first two months there were 1861 visitors to the site - many of them returning, as there were 2571 visits