Job responsibilities
Job responsibilities
JOB
TITLE: Practice Nurse
REPORTS
TO: Lead GP
Job
Summary:
To
assist medical personnel in the care of Practice patients to include treatment,
preventative care, screening and patient education. 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. Care will be provided both in the Practice
and community setting.
Job
Responsibilities:
Providing
assessment, screening and treatment services and health education advice
- Providing nursing
treatments to patients in participation with general practitioners or
independently to agreed protocols.
- Provide general
and specific chronic disease management to patients (within agreed
protocols) with referral to general practitioners as necessary.
- Advise patients on
general health care and minor ailments with referral to GPs as necessary.
Other
Duties:
- Assist in and
perform routine tasks related to patient care as directed by senior
nursing staff and GPs
- Cytology
- Wound care/ ulcer
care/ Doppler
- Removal of Sutures
- Travel advice and
vaccines
- ECGs
- Long Term
Condition management
- Routine immunisations/Childhood
immunisations
- Chaperoning and
assisting patients where appropriate who are being examined by another
clinician
- Requesting
pathology tests, for example urine culture, swabs
- Following agreed
clinical protocols with referral to GPs as appropriate
- Maintaining and
cleaning equipment
- Maintaining GP and
Nurses rooms, stocking and rotating items as required
- Maintain general
tidiness and cleanliness of nurses and treatment rooms
- Ordering of
vaccinations to maintain stock levels
- Participation in
administrative systems in the Practice
- At all times there
will be a need to maintain accurate records
- A duty to advise clinicians of potential problems or errors within the range of assigned
tasks
- Attend and
participate in any practice meetings when required
- Undertake home
visits when required
- Other delegated
duties appropriate to the post
Pathological
specimens and investigatory procedures:
Following appropriate training, undertake the collection, storage and
despatch of pathological specimens including intravenous blood samples, swabs,
smears etc and ensure the cleanliness of any equipment so used. Perform any investigatory procedures
requested by the GPs.
Administrative
and professional responsibilities:
- Participate in the administrative and professional responsibilities
of the Practice team.
- Ensure accurate notes of all consultations and treatments are
recorded in the patients notes on the clinical computer systems as
appropriate.
- Ensure accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated
with patient health care and registration with the Practice.
- Ensure collection and maintenance of statistical information
required for regular and ad hoc reports.
- Attend and participate in Practice meetings as required.
- Assist in the formulation of Practice philosophy, strategy and
policy and develop appropriate protocols.
- Maintain a notice board in the waiting area designated for patient
health care education.
Student/Staff
education and training:
Liaison:
Professional Development:
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, safety and security as
defined in the Practice Health & 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
- Making
effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
- Using
appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy
and safe way and free from hazards
- 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 recognizes 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-judgmental and
respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Personal/Professional Development:
In
addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses
and/or study days necessary to ensure that NMC 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, 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.
Quality:
The
post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the Practice, and will:
- Alert other team
members to issues of quality and risk
- Assess own
performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or
under supervision
- Contribute to the
effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making
suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
- Work effectively
with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
- Effectively manage
own time, workload and resources.
Communication:
The post-holder should recognize the importance
of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
- Communicate
effectively with other team members
- Communicate
effectively with patients and carers
- Recognise peoples
needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
Contribution to the Implementation of Services:
The
post-holder will:
- Apply Practice
policies, standards and guidance
- Discuss with other
members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect
own work
- Participate in
audit where appropriate.
Please note the above list of job duties is not exclusive
or exhaustive and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks as
may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.