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- • Short-term complications of type 2 diabetes
- • Tailoring therapy to the individual patient
- • Targets for glycaemic control in type 2 diabetes
- • Type 2 Diabetes: Diagnosis
- • Type 2 Diabetes: Management
- Health and safety
- • Vaccines And The Cold Chain
- Health promotion
- • Lifestyle modification
- • Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
- • Smoking cessation
- Immunisation
- • Childhood Immunisations
- Infections
- • Acute bronchitis - adults
- • Acute Otitis media: Diagnosis and management
- • Urinary tract infections in women
- Long Term Conditions
- • Autoimmune diseases Part 1: background and diagnosis
- • Autoimmune diseases Part 2: Disease modifying treatments and monitoring
- • Cancer
- • Chronic kidney disease: diagnosis and management
- • Inflammatory arthritis
- • Multimorbidity
- • Rheumatoid arthritis – a clinical update for practice nurses
- Medicines Management
- • Adverse drug reactions: A guide for general practice nurses
- • NSAIDs prescribing issues
- Men's Health
- • Men’s health
- • Well man checks
- Mental Health
- • Anxiety
- • Depression
- • Depression for general practice nurses
- Miscellaneous
- • Red eyes: assessment
- • Sleep apnoea: assessment and management
- Nursing tasks & skills
- • Routine Tests Part 1
- • Routine Tests Part 2
- • Routine Tests Part 3
- • Therapeutic Monitoring
- Personal Development
- • Guidelines, sources and the role of NICE
- • Medicolegal Issues
- • Personal safety
- • Primary care networks
- Quality
- • Evidence Based Health Care
- • Evidence-based practice
- • Significant event audit
- Routine tests
- • Point of Care Testing
- • Routine Tests Part 1
- • Routine Tests Part 2
- • Routine Tests Part 3
- Screening
- • Cancer Screening
- • Screening Part 1
- • Screening Part 2
- Smoking cessation
- • Supporting patients to quit
- Sponsored learning
- • Diagnosis of heart failure
- • The management of bedwetting
- • Using mucolytics in the management of COPD symptoms
- Therapeutic Monitoring
- • Iron deficiency anaemia: Diagnosis and management
- • Routine Tests Part 3
- Travel Medicine
- • Getting started in travel health: read and reflect
- Women's Health
- • Cervical screening
- • Contraception: an update
- • Contraceptive choices: Using the UKMEC guidance
- • Intrauterine contraception
- • Menstruation
- • Non-hormonal contraception
- • Reproductive health
Essentials
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Prescribing Nurse
Prescribing Nurse
Advanced Practice
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Guidelines
Guidelines in a nutshell
- Pharmacological management of migraine
- Polypharmacy Guidance, Realistic Prescribing
- Prescribing for lower urinary tract infections
- Risk estimation and the prevention of cardiovascular disease. SIGN 149, 2017
- Sore throat (acute): antimicrobial prescribing. NICE NG84, January 2018
- Stop smoking interventions and services. NICE NG92, March 2018
- The UK Immunisation Schedule
- Type 2 diabetes in adults - management
- Urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse in women
- COVID-19 Managing symptoms
- Covid-19 Managing symptoms
- Hypertension

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The decision is made to record Terry’s observations and carry out some blood tests and an electrocardiogram as part of the assessment. Blood tests include a full blood count, renal and hepatic function, and an NT-proBNP test. If heart failure is suspected, an NT-proBNP blood test can be used to:

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	Confirm the diagnosis
	Indicate the presence of atherosclerosis
	Support the appropriate use of echocardiography
	Determine what type of heart failure the patient has

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