GPN Health Assessment and Nursing Care Recommendations

Nursing and Healthcare
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Table of Contents
GPN Health Assessment.....................................................................................................3
Activity of Daily Living........................................................................................................4
Nursing Care Recommendations........................................................................................7
Bibliography.......................................................................................................................8

GPN Health Assessment
With the increase in number of cases of dependent aged people turning to full time help in
the final years of their life, GPN or General Practice Nurse are the nurses who are there to
help these people by taking care of them in a simple yet helpful manner. These people give
the best possible services to the patients in need and ensure that they are always taken care
of, 24X7 without any fail or as per their schedule requirement (QNI, 2017)
GPN or General Practice Nurse is a widely recognised concept now and many nursing
professionals are now turning towards it.
These General Practice Nurses are an integral part of the team of the doctors treating the
patient, and are sometimes involved from the very starting of the patient’s treatment so as
to be aware of their history, so that later on they can work for them exclusively as their
medical help. These nurses take care of everything for these people; their bathes, food,
regular check-up, exercise, checking their blood pressure, regular doctoral visits etc. These
nurses being associated to the practising doctors, are all the more experienced and deal
exclusively with the patient, one case at a time. These nurses should not only be well in
handling typical medical emergencies, but should also know how to deal with issues relating
to mental health, learning disability and child care too, since they are not limited to just
taking care of old people (Health Careers , 2016).
The MBS and 707 healthcare schedule is devised by the government of Australia to ensure
that elderly population has full access to quality healthcare treatment and they are never
deprived of any of their medical needs. These provisions are made keeping in mind the
requirements of all these people, and how the country’s medical team wishes to achieve it.
It’s aim is to ensure that all the elderly population of Australia remains fit and healthy, fit
easy access to healthcare whenever and wherever they want, with complete support and
minimum disturbance and inconvenience possible. Services like these are extremely
important in every country so that the elderly population gets proper treatment and lives
better (Australia Health Governemnt , 2018)