Building blocks
Explaining the essential elements of a nurse clinic
The building blocks are here to help ensure that you’ve considered the most important aspects of creating a nurse clinic. Each building block contains the core components you need to establish a nurse clinic.
They can be arranged in any order; there is no one-size-fits-all approach that will work for clinics, and no particular clinic model will be better than another. Rather, success will depend on developing a model that suits the local context, accounting for factors such as community need, nursing availability and expertise and organisational capacity.
A clear plan
Identify clinic opportunities, community need, and your goals, then create your business case.
Start planning
Funding
Understand how to get your clinic funded, budget concepts and sources of finance.
Get funded
Location and facilities
Creating the space that serves the clinical needs of your patients.
Create the space
Staffing and HR
From role clarity and employment policies to teamwork and stakeholder management.
Build the team
Best practice
Set up your nurse clinic with an evidence-based approach to clinical care and quality.
Define the approach
Patient engagement
Design effective patient pathways.
Start designing your patient flow
Systems and processes
Implement systems to manage appointments, billing, reminders, registers and more.
Set up systems
Evaluation and improvement
Our step-by-step guide to evaluating your clinic and planning for improvement.
Start evaluating