Nursing in General Practice
 

SECTION TWO: For the employer

 
2.1 Practice Nursing
2.2 Employing Benefits
2.3 Financial Implications
2.4 Roles
2.5 Recruitment guides:
2.5.1 Recruitment overview
2.5.2 Employment options
2.5.3 Employment contracts
2.5.4 Remuneration
2.5.5 Employment process
2.6 Induction guide
2.7 Professional issues
2.8 Competency standards
2.9 Performance management
2.10 Additional information
2.11 Templates
2.12 Acronyms
2.13 Endnotes
 

2.13 Endnotes


1 Wagner et al. Organising Care for Patients with Chronic Illness, The Millbank Quarterly, 1996; 74 (4) 511-534.
2 Watts et al. General Practice Nursing in Australia, RACGP/ RCNA, 2004, cited in AGPN Demonstration Divisions Resource Kit, 2005.
3 AGPN, Business Case Package, 2006.
4 Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA). Fact Sheet No. 1, Nurses in General Practice: Roles, 2001.
5 Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council. Consultation Document: Draft National Framework for Decision Making by Nurses and Midwives about Scope of Practice, 2006.
6 Practice nurse duty list adapted by Illawarra Division of General Practice from the Hunter Urban Division of General Practice ‘Practice Nurse Recruitment Pack’, 2003.
7 In 2004 the Melbourne Division of General Practice (MDGP) developed a Nurse Recruitment and Induction Kit that included a number of templates that can be downloaded and used in the recruitment process. Information provided in this national guide is, in part, drawn from the MDGP Kit. The MDGP contribution to this resource is gratefully acknowledged.
8 Royal College of Nursing, Australia. Nursing in General Practice — a guide for the general practice team, 2005.



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