Practice Nurses
Edith Strawhorn – Practice Nurse, RGN
Caitlyn McVittie – Staff Nurse
Practice Nurses are fully trained in a wide range of skills including immunisations, health promotion, contraception and management of long-term conditions e.g. advise on diet and lifestyle choices, coronary heart disease, hypertension, asthma, diabetes, smoking cessation and obesity.
Practice Nurses can extend their skills at Diploma Level and see many patients who previously would have seen the Doctor.
The Nursing Team run various Nurse-led clinics for asthma, coronary heart disease as well as providing general nursing services, dressings, removal of sutures and blood tests.
