Nursing in General Practice:

still some way to go A number of barriers and facilitators to an expanded role for practice nurses have been identified. These include legal and funding issues related to the lack of a system-level model, poor role definition for practice nurses, lack of space available in general practices and GP attitudes. Inter-professional issues, medico-legal concerns and a poorly defined scope of practice need to be addressed while a defined educational and career pathway for practice nursing to attract nurses to general practice is needed. Practice nursing in Australia Practice nurses are an integral part of multi-disciplinary primary health care and the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing’s Nursing in General Practice Program encourages the inclusion of nurses in general practices as part of a flexible approach to delivering integrated health care. This approach i