Job responsibilities
The Practice Nurse will work as part of the Nursing
& Healthcare team providing General Medical Services to the patients of
Park View Surgery. Responsibilities are
to
Assess, plan, develop, implement and
evaluate programmes to promote health and well-being, and prevent adverse
effects on health and well-being
Implement and evaluate individual
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
Triage (face to face and telephone) assessment and treat patients wishing to see health care professional making and necessary referrals to other members of the primary health care team.
Ensure clinical practice is safe and effective and remains within boundaries of competence and to acknowledge limitations to the team so that referrals can be appropriate.
Ensure all contacts with patients are recorded as accurately as possible
Prioritise
health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in
complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective
emergency care.
Deliver
opportunistic health promotion using opportunities such as new-patient
medicals.
Provide
information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication on
medication regimens, side effects and interactions.
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 needs.
Support
and manage health needs of women presenting for cervical cytology
consultations.
Recognise,
assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs in
accordance with the National Framework (NSF) for Mental Health.
Implement
and participate in vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults
and children.
Undertake
community visits for house bound patients as identified individually and
within own scope of practice.
Assist
senior practitioners in providing minor-surgery sessions.
Actively
identifying, reporting, and correction of health and safety hazards and
infection hazards immediately when recognised.
Advise,
support and, where appropriate, administer vaccinations for patients
travelling abroad.
Keeping
own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, sterile,
identifying issues and hazards / risks in relation to other work areas within
the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general
standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where
appropriate) with other sector managers.
Undertaking
periodic infection control training.
Routine
management of own team / team areas, and maintenance of workspace
standards
Waste
management, including collection, handling, segregation, container
management, storage and collection.
Spillage
control procedures, management and training.
Decontamination
control procedures, management and training, and equipment maintenance.
Meetings
It will be necessary to attend and contribute
to various Practice meetings, safeguarding and Palliative Care meetings.
Training
and personal development
Training requirements will be monitored by
appraisal initially after 4-6 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.
Develop and maintain a Personal Learning Plan
If it is necessary to expand the role to
include additional responsibilities, appropriate training will be given.
Liaison
As well as the nursing team there is a need to
work closely with reception, office 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.
There is also the need to establish and
maintain good liaison with other surgeries and agencies including secondary
care.
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-judgmental
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.