The nurse specialist will assist in the assessment and treatment of patients with alcohol related problem, provide appropriate disease related advice and promote health education in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary team. They may be expected to carry out specialist nursing and clinical procedures and refer patients appropriately and timely for investigations and to other service providers. They will assist in delivering staff education programmes, ongoing advice and clinical supervision to other health care professionals. They will accept referrals from other Health Care Professionals; work unsupervised and may manage their own clinics, with regular monitoring/clinical supervision from the GI consultants.
Responsibilities
* Undertakes research and clinical audits in own specialist area
* To provide nursing care at an advanced level
* To provide nurse-led clinics to assess new patients to Gastroenterology service.
* To provide follow-up clinics
* To provide advice/brief interventions and information on the management of alcohol problems
* To provide telephone counselling and advice
* Provides advice and information on the management of alcohol to senior nurses and junior medical staff.
* Provides case presentation of complex patients to senior medical staff.
* Provides updates/information about relevant changes or developments within own specialty to managers/ directors and clinical directors.
* Provides complex and sensitive information to relatives and carers about their condition relevant investigations and the options for treatment.
* Frequent discussion with external agencies offering advice re referral and management of alcohol problems, also updates on the patients’ clinical condition, results of investigations and future management of their condition.
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