Overview
With a high volume and fast turnover of patients undergoing cardiac and thoracic day case investigations and procedures, a year’s secondment on the Nurse led day ward could be the challenge you are looking for. We are open Monday to Friday, 06:45-20:00.
Responsibilities
* Prepare patients for their procedures
* Perform venepuncture and 12 lead ECGs
* Facilitates an enhanced recovery and nurse led discharge
* Manage discharge lounge to facilitate safe discharge across the hospital
* The elective Day ward strives to admit ambulatory patients, prepare for procedure, recover, and discharge as a day case.
Requirements / Skills
Basic skills required are provided. This is a time pressured environment, where you must be a team player, well organised, and able to deal with ever changing priorities. All our staff are expected to effectively multitask and ensure infection control risks are managed effectively. Patient experience is optimised on the ward through good communication and team working.
About the Trust
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK\'s leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK\'s first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure. Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality. The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview. For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour
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