Acute Children's Outreach Nurse - Deputy Sister/Charge Nurse
To provide an evidence-based and structured clinical telephone and video assessment to all children on the ACORNS caseload. This includes highly competent communication skills to assess, monitor, and plan care. We aim to provide consistency, continuity, and advice to families at home.
To provide a holistic, autonomous, and clinical nursing service using evidence-based practice. Responsibilities include carrying out initial assessments and home visits, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care for all patients with ongoing responsibility. Act in partnership with the child and family when assessing needs and planning care.
To provide advice contributing to the well-being of the patient and participate in health promotion. To carry out physical assessments, initiate nursing and emergency interventions by recognizing deteriorating children. Monitor acute exacerbations of illness and initiate appropriate nursing interventions.
Ensure all clinical practice is based on current local and national guidelines for the assessment and recognition of the sick child. Initiate appropriate work, accept referrals, and work autonomously with the child and family in the community setting.
To provide structured clinical assessments of individual needs that empower children, young people, and parents to support their acute care needs. Regularly liaise with acute hospital colleagues to enable timely and safe discharge from hospital and appropriate follow-up in the community, e.g., care of children with viral wheeze needing inhalers and observation at home, fluid challenges for children with diarrhea and vomiting, and other high-volume conditions presenting in the CED.
Involvement in the Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) pilot scheme will require supporting the consultant-led service by performing observations, assisting with medications, and facilitating interventions as needed.
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