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As well as being a practice nurse in south London, Mia Skelly has a Darzi Fellowship and is part of a project to boost the numbers of nurses choosing general practice nursing. In this podcast she strongly advocates for general practice nursing as a career, overturning some of the myths about the profession along the way and suggests some ways of how the crisis in GPN recruitment and retention might be overcome.

Show Notes

Mia “falls into” Practice Nursing (44secs)

Mia takes the plunge with little or no experience in primary care (1min 39secs)

The challenges of moving from hospital to practice nursing – and the benefits (2min 01secs)

General Practice Nursing is a specialism in itself (2mins 58secs)

Developing a new range of skills (4mins 18secs)

GPNs find it a challenge to access training and development – but it is getting better (5mins 05secs)

“Distracted by the opportunities…” and boosting GPN numbers (6mins 31secs)

Recruitment and retention difficulties – student nurse placements in primary care (7mins 40secs)

The truth about General Practice Nursing (9mins 21secs)

Not enough nurse training practices (9mins 55secs)

Encouraging practice nurse tutors and mentors (10mins 32secs)

Advice for practices reluctant to receive student nurses (11mins 09secs)

Potential for a portfolio career and supporting nurses in their professional interests (13mins)

A career structure for GPNs – a career framework (see below) (14mins 10secs)

Practices working at scale and in new models of care creates greater opportunities for nurses (14mins 59secs)

Practice Nursing and District Nursing (16mins 12secs)

The introduction of new roles into general practice (17mins 22secs)

The crisis in practice nursing – what can be done? (18mins 03secs)

You can follow Mia on Twitter @miaskelly

The education and career framework Mia refers to in this podcast can be found here