Job responsibilities
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES OF POST
1. Meeting patients nursing care needs as identified, or where care has been transferred to her by a GP. This will usually be in surgery but occasional home visits will also be required.
2. Initiating and maintaining health screening and promotion clinics for identified areas of the practice population, recognising where modification of systems or referral is necessary.
3. Managing the nursing care of patients with chronic disease, employing personal recall systems suitable to the practice needs. This includes using the practice computer systems for input of information for recall and screening purposes.
4. The following clinics are offered by Sidings Healthcare Centre Practice Nursing Team:
Asthma / COPD
Diabetes
Hypertension
Cardiovascular Disease
Travel Vaccination Clinic
Cervical Smears
Family Planning
INR Monitoring
Amending or adding to services as needs are identified.
5. Maintaining efficient liaison with all areas of the Primary Care Team and other agencies to assure continuity of care where necessary.
Clinical Practice Leadership
- Assist in clinical audit and the setting up and monitoring of standards of care
- Assist and teach others in clinical setting, including unqualified staff
- Act as assessor/mentor to other staff where necessary
- Work effectively in the team.
6. Routine treatment in general clinics, including:
- Wound management
- Blood tests
- ECGs
and other general Treatment Room skills, including:
Clinical Nursing Practice
Wound Management
- Undertake dressings
- Suture and clip removal
Screening
- Undertake screening including: BP checks, height, and weight, BMI, Urinalysis, smoking status.
- Carry out New Patient checks
- Undertake venepuncture according to practice protocol
Health Promotion:
- Make basic assessment of needs of patients
- Provide nutritional advice on:
- Weight
- CHD
- Diabetes
- BMI
- Understand patients motivation to adapt their lifestyle
Offer lifestyle advice on smoking and exercise and refer as appropriate
Vaccinations and Immunisations
- Administer injections under an individualised prescription or Patient Group Directive.
- To continually update your knowledge of the implications of immunisation and contra indications
- Ensure safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs.
Infection Control
- Support patients and colleagues in adopting sound infection control measures.
- Apply infection control measures within the practice according to local and national guidelines.
This includes:
- Universal hygiene precautions
- The collection and handling of laboratory specimens
- Segregation and disposal of waste materials
- Decontamination of instruments and clinical equipment
- Reporting and treatment of sharps injuries
- Dealing with blood and body fluid spillages
Emergency Management
- To be competent in anaphylaxis and resuscitation techniques
- attend updates when required
- Womens Health
- Have a working knowledge of the national and local Cervical Cytology and mammography screening programmes
- Can discuss breast self awareness and provide supporting literature to patients
General Duties:
- To maintain accurate patient records on the computer
- To collect data and participate in regular practice audit and research projects when required
- To log and dispatch specimens to the hospital
- To assist the Practice Nurses in the provision of Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Management
Education
- To maintain continuous professional development in keeping with the requirements of the practice.
- To participate in training of other personnel as appropriate, including unqualified staff.
- To contribute to the preparation of the Practice and Professional Development Plan.
Information and I.T.
- Facilitate good communication systems within the practice with the use of computerised messages.
- Extrapolate information received by outside agencies and bring to the notice of all clinicians wherever necessary.
- Undertake all training and attend any computer data input and retrieval meetings deemed necessary by the Practice Manager to manage the clinical system effectively.
- Patient Liaison
- Be available to deal with any patient query that may prove to beyond the ability of the medical receptionist, and be aware of limit of own ability.
- Ensure that all formal complaints are passed onto the Practice Manager for immediate action