Job responsibilities
Working under supervision of the Lead Nurse, the Practice Nurse will work as part of the Nursing team providing General Medical Services to all our patients
Responsibilities
Implement and evaluate treatment plans for patients with a known long term condition
Identify, and manage as appropriate, treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long term condition
Advising patients with respect to their continuing nursing and medical needs.
Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate programmes to promote health and well-being, and prevent adverse effects on heath and well-being
Ensure clinical practice is safe and effective and remains within boundaries of competence and to acknowledge limitations tot eh team so that referrals can be appropriate
Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote patients to live healthily and encourage principles of self-care
Assess and care for patients presenting with uncomplicated wounds
Perform routine procedures like ear syringing, treating wounds, and applying or removing dressings
Taking urine and blood samples, other swabs and specimens
Support and advise women requesting information relating to family planning
Support and manage health needs of women presenting for cervical cytology
Implement and participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children
Keeping own work areas and general/patient areas generally clean, identifying issues and hazards/risk in relation to other work areas within the business.
Undertake periodic infection control training
Training and personal development
Training requirements will be monitored by appraisal initially after 6 months and then yearly and will be in accordance with Practice requirements. Personal development will be encouraged and supported by the practice, where appropriate. It is the individuals responsibility to remain up-to-date with recent developments
Maintain continued education by attendance at courses and study days as deemed useful or necessary for professional development ensuring requirements are met.
Liaison
As well as the nursing team there is a need to work closely with reception, admin and clinical staff to ensure smooth running of the practice, reporting any problems encountered to the relevant person and ensuring everyone is aware of the different roles within the nursing team
Confidentiality
In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us
with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health
and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that
staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.
In the performance of the duties outlined in this job
description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information
relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare
workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a
business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded
as strictly confidential.
Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other
healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to
authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures
relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.
Health & Safety
The post holder will assist in promoting and maintaining
their own and others health, safe and security as defined in the Practice
Health and safety policy, to include:
Using personal security systems within the workplace
according to practice guidelines
Identifying the risks involved in work activities and
undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical
and patient process
Making effective use of training to update knowledge and
skills, and initiate and manage the training of others across the full range of
infection control and patient processes
Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining
work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile and safe way, free from hazards.
Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to
responsible management
Reporting potential risks identified
Equality and Diversity
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and
rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples
rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures
and policies, and current legislation
Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of
patients, carers and colleagues
Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the
individual, is non-judgemental and respects their circumstances, feelings
priorities and rights.
Person/Professional Development
In addition to maintaining continued education through
attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that
professional development requirements for PREP are met, the post-holder will
participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of
this employment, with such training to include:
Participation in an annual individual performance review,
including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or
professional development
Taking responsibility for own development, learning and
performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are
undertaking similar work.
