District nurse

A district nurse manages care within a community and leads teams of community nurses and support workers. Duties generally include visiting house-bound patients and providing advice and care such as palliative care, wound management, catheter and continence care and medication support. Their work involves both follow-up care for recently discharged hospital inpatients and longer-term care for chronically ill patients who may be referred by many other services, as well as working collaboratively with general practitioners in preventing unnecessary or avoidable hospital admissions.

In the United Kingdom, the role requires registered nurses to take a specialist practitioner course that is approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

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