To provide and maintain a high standard of nursing care for patients as well as providing nursing assistance to the doctors and other members of the primary healthcare team.
The duties will include all tasks normally undertaken by an experienced RGN and in addition any roles agreed between the nurse and the doctors as appropriate, having regard to current training.
Main duties of the job
Main Job responsibilities:
* Take responsibility for keeping nursing skills and knowledge up to date and in line with current guidelines
* Working independently alongside the Lead Practice Nurse and Healthcare Assistant team, making decisions and recommendations as appropriate.
* Oversee Healthcare Assistants when required
* Undertake relevant training courses in order to advance skills.
* Keep up to date on changes to national guidelines
* Take a proactive approach towards planning activities related to own workload in order to complete tasks in a timely manner.
* Contribute to the achievement of the Quality and Outcomes Framework
* Chronic Disease Management run clinics, keep up to date with guidelines.
* Nurse Prescribing - Where the post holder is an independent prescriber: to prescribe safe, effective and appropriate medication as defined by current legislative framework
Job responsibilities
Routine Treatment Room Activities:
* Cytology
* Wound care/Dopplers/Four-layer bandaging
* Removal of Sutures
* Urinalysis
* Travel immunisations
* ECGs
* Venepuncture
* Ear syringing
* Routine immunizations/Childhood immunisations
* Chaperoning and assisting patients where appropriate who are being examined by another clinician
* Requesting pathology tests, for example urine culture, swabs
* Contraception
* Therapeutic Monitoring
* Maintain general tidiness and cleanliness of nurses and treatment rooms
* Ordering of Health Promotion Literature
* Ordering of vaccinations to maintain stock levels
* Awareness of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines
* 24 hour BP monitor
Qualifications
* NMC registration
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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