Registered Nursing Associate

Job summary

The Registered Nursing Associate are to provide a high standard holistic, person-centred nursing care, monitor care and treatment to an identified group of patients under the direction of Registered Nurse.

They are accountable and work independently - within the remit of the role - to assess, plan, implement and evaluate; undertaking aspects of care delegated by registered nurses.

Equipped with the appropriate knowledge, skills, and behaviours relevant to employment, they will work to a nationally recognised code of conduct defined by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) to which they are registered.

Main duties of the job

• Ensuring that a service user centred multi-disciplinary approach to care is present
• Assess, plan, implement and monitor care in keeping with evidence-based practice.
• Ensure timely referrals to a registered nurse when any actions, care or treatment is required.
• To take an active role in direct service user care and role model to junior staff.
• To provide guidance to junior staff relevant to clinical speciality.
• Ensuring that care reflects individual and cultural needs considering any reasonable adjustments that may be required.
• Recognising and acting upon safeguarding concerns.
• Ensuring that all practices are within the guidelines set out by the NMC and other professional groups and are in accordance with Trust policies, Trust 3 Key objectives, core behaviours, and the Trust Nursing Strategy.
• Identify and report clinical risks to the Registered Nurse, Caseload manager, Team manager or Area manager in other for appropriate action in accordance with the Trust risk management policy.
• Administration of medication to include, subcutaneous injections, eye drops, ear drops, enema's, , liquid and tablets.
• Diabetes management for stable diabetes care, including insulin administration BM monitoring.
• Bowel management of stable long-term conditions management including enemas, bowel evacuations methods.

About us

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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