 Just replying to this question here about GP nursing and what does a GP nurse even do? Because actually there's a lot of misconceptions around about the role and I don't think many people realise what work is involved in GP practices. It's incredible. So firstly you will see everything, anything, everyone, anyone, any age, everything possible which can be quite tricky. That's probably the most challenging thing about GP is you need to know a bit of everything about everything and you have to wear many nursing hats. So you will see things like babies for their baby vaccines, you might see children. So for example I saw a child not just for the vaccine but they cut their finger, they had stitches and I was there to remove their stitches in a two-year-old and I remember at the time actually really panicking thinking oh my god I've got a two-year-old for stitches out this is gonna be horrific then I'm gonna see still I had so much judgment in my mind which was completely wrong of me and the gorgeous little one come in sat there put the arm on the table like this and just sat there looking at me I removed the stitches and I was just looking at her like are you okay? She didn't budge and she went thank you and left and I was just there like wow how wrong was I children agree. Then you'll see adults so again it might be for vaccines, it might be for injections, it might be stitch removals, wound dressings, it might be for their long-term health condition so they might have diabetes you might be doing your diabetes checks, they might have asthma so you might be doing asthma checks, they might have had a stroke so you might be doing your stroke checks and monitoring. You might see things for cervical screening or smear tests also known as you might see a variety of mental health patients as well for things like mental health assessments which is something that I did in one particular clinic I worked at and as part of that because they were under the psychiatrist and on a lot of medication and with certain medication you need an ECG blood pressure height weight and all that to make sure everything's okay and blood tests and things to check on bits and bobs so we would do that for the psychiatrist and then it gets sent off to them just to make sure that everything's okay and they can continue with medication and therapy and whatnot so things like that I would do as well. I would see people for things like post surgery so hip replacements I used to get a lot of hip replacements and knee replacements actually and removing clips from the wound and then putting the dressing on just checking them over following them up as well making sure that they're all okay after their surgery. I used to do as well sexual health contraception checks as well so hypertension monitoring I had a lot of that as well a lot of hypertension blood pressures a lot of health promotion as well with all of the long-term conditions any condition always health promotion with everything we do as well. NHS health checks so if you don't know what an NHS health check is it's when you are 40 years older invited to an NHS health check if you don't have any conditions already so it's for people that are perfectly healthy and they don't know they've got any conditions so they'll be doing your high weight blood pressure blood tests as well to check for things like diabetes, cholesterol that sort of thing to make sure that you're in good health because prevention is key so at that point when they're doing all of these things and the measurements and everything I would also do the health promotion there and then as well just to advise healthy lifestyle exercise that sort of thing to be healthier for longer to prevent these things because prevention is definitely key. Just to sit in with the doctor and help the doctor to do things like implants or coil inserts or removals as well because we were a practice that did that sort of thing there and the doctor was trained to do it. So as you can see that is a lot GP nurses do so so much and also we do see emergency situations as well it's not just the prevention and help of motion and primary care type things we do see acute things as well so someone might be having an asthma attack it might not be able to be controlled in clinic and we need to get the ambulance. I had a patient as well that had to be sent straight to hospital because it was a suspect suspected heart attack and we had to deal with that there and then just there's things that come through the door that people have put off maybe or they can't get an ambulance or they can't get into the hospital and so they end up at the reception desk like in the middle of a heart attack or breathless they can physically not breathe and you will have to deal with that sort of situation. I mean it's not common but I have seen that a few times. So always be prepared and also I don't think I explained this at the start either but you'll see all fields of nursing in GP even though I was an adult nurse I would see children I'd see mental health I'd see learning disabilities. I hope that helps I know it's very very different from ward settings and it is an absolutely incredible amazing for me is the best is the best is the best place to work but it's not for everyone. So yeah I hope that helps if you've got any more questions ask away and I'll try my best to answer it.