 Hi everyone just answering this question here which was asked on a different social media platform And I'm not sure if they want to be named and shamed or anything like that So I'm just typed out. I've said this in a couple of videos before that Transition period from student to newly qualified nurse or newly registered nurse is by far the hardest part of your journey I think it was for me it was horrendous not to scare anybody but it was definitely the hardest part and it made me question a lot of things and It didn't help that I'd moved to a new city. I didn't have friends and family close by So I think that was a massive part of actually a lot of what was going on with me It wasn't just the job and the role and things like that But what can you expect as a newly qualified nurse going into general practice? So in any role you should be really shadowing somebody for a good couple of weeks at least Just to get your head around everything the system the process everything that that's happening Hopefully they'll get you to sit with different staff members as well So sitting with the doctor for a bit sitting with the health care assistant the fuller bottom is admin teams things like that So you can see how the whole GP system works That'd be a really really good thing to do if they don't get you to do that Ask if you can do that because that'd be really nice and then you can understand everybody's roles And that'll just make your life just so much easier as well when you're planning your patients and things Now every GP is completely different because GP is technically private Although they are funded by the NHS to do certain things and meet certain targets and things like that and they get funded for that GPs are very very independent contractors every single GP practice will be completely different in how they run How they pay the staff the terms and conditions will be completely different from place to place That's the first warning. So make sure you have got the right support in place wherever you're working Just make sure you've got a supportive team. They're gonna be there for you You're gonna have a mentor Make sure that you're gonna have supervision every week when you when you are eventually on your own seeing patients Make sure you've got that support around you because it's gonna make such a difference when you've got that support person Next to your buddy that you can go to and say help I need you is just honestly a game-changer So some cheap GPS will train you differently to other GPs Some will put you on the year-long level seven fundamentals of general practice nursing course Others will do in-house training and they'll get people in to do your training with you like wound management Spical screening and things like that. So it just depends on how they run and how they do things You might be slightly different to where you're working Well, you should still have some form type of Perceptorship type of thing I say this because it's not really I don't know what your class is a perceptorship And I was just very fortunate that I did have this in place. I had a whole two-year plan had extra support in place I was I had a really good document to get myself signed off different skills and things like that and Whenever I did new training, I'd sign it off those little type of things and Having a really good structured plan will make a whole lot of difference as well So if you are new to general practice nursing and you don't know this already the Queens nursing Institute Have got the most amazing general practice nursing induction template If you literally just Google Q and I GPN template it will come up It'll be a whole booklet of things that you can get signed off use that as your perceptorship booklet and This book is fantastic. It'll just have everything in there to help you get started and get you settled into GP I know a lot of GPs don't have anything like this already in place. So the templates there Please download it. Please use it share it with your colleagues if they need it as well So, yes, like I said, the first things you're going to be doing is shadowing getting to know the system getting to know What's what in general practice? Then they might just start getting you to do little things that you can do So anything you've done and you are qualified to do already So things like you might be able to do injections because that's what you've done at university You've been signed off that already. Yeah You might have you might be able to do wounds because you're really good at wounds and you're competent and confident You've done it all at university But there will be extra training that you can go on and do these things as well to get you extra competent Get you extra confident as well in these skills So even though I was trained in bloods I have to I had to do another training package as part of that and get signed off my bloods I did all my wound care and everything or everything basically I did all over again through the fundamentals of general practice nursing and Then as you start doing your training, you'll be supervised again. You should always be with someone To supervise you doing things and signing you off on your book And then once you're confident and competent at doing these things, you'll be let loose to the world And lastly, if you go on the e-learn for healthcare, there's a whole general practice nursing package on there Just have a look at general practice nursing But some little things that would be useful for you is the baby vaccines package or immunizations I think the baby vaccines falls under immunizations package. Have a look at that. It's all free So register go through it make your notes and everything. It's quite a long-winded. It took me two days to do the immunization ones So just go through it bit by bit and just get your head around the immunizations and baby vaccines and things like that There's other ones as well on there for things like cervical screening sexual health Contraception checks there's absolutely loads. So go and have a good look around and just do what you can bit by bit So I hope that helps. I'm sorry. This is a really long-winded video But I hope you've this helps just prepare you for when you get started and good luck