What is a Nursing Associate?
Nursing associates work across all four fields of nursing: adult, children's, mental health, and learning disability. Your skills and responsibilities will vary, depending on the care setting you work in.
You will work under the guidance of a Registered Nurse.
Your duties are likely to include:
- undertaking clinical tasks including venepuncture and ECGs
- performing and recording clinical observations such as blood pressure, temperature, respirations and pulse
- participating in chronic disease management clinics
- Administering medications
- General treatment room activities for example, dressings, wound management, assisting in minor operations and contraception advice
- Health promotion and wellbeing
Our support to you
The Training Hub believes in investing in learning and development to enable individuals to reach their full potential and enhance care delivery to patients accessing Primary Care. We aim to support you as part of our workforce in General Practice, facilitating access to the Registered Nurse Degree ‘Top-up' programme through supportive career conversations.
Opportunities
Opportunities for funding the ‘top-up' is through the Northamptonshire Primary Care Training Hub; To be eligible for the course, candidates must have at least 2 years o experience in a healthcare setting and typically need to have completed GCSE Maths and English Grade C/4 above, or have Functional skills level 2. And have completed your Nursing Associate Foundation Degree. Eligibility for funding for this program will be determined during an Academic Funding interview.
Related Courses
Who do I contact?
Sarah Briggs
Clinical placement facilitator