Practice Nurse

Job Summary: • Plan and provide appropriate nursing care to patients of all ages, in conjunction with other nurses and medical staff • Carry out investigations, assess and deliver evidence based practice in accordance with practice policy and protocols • Offer advice and health education to ensure disease treatment is complimented by health promotion • Maintain a safe and effective practice at all times and bring any deficits in care to the attention of the Nurse Lead so that they can be addressed • Participate in the development of practice protocols to advance nursing roles, enhance safety and improve patient care • Mentor and supervise HCAs • Provide support to the wider MDT team to suppot high quality, patient-centred care to patients Clinical Responsibilities • To assess, plan, implement and evaluate the needs of patients to include treatment, preventative care, appropriate screening and education. • Undertake patient consultations, carry out physcial examinations, investigatory procedures and collection of specimens • Manage annual reviews of patients with long-term conditions (where appropriately trained) and undertake interim support to ensure that the condition is well controlled • Provide wound management including both chronic and postoperative wounds • Administer adult and childhood immunisations, and other injections under Patient Group Directions ensuring safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and • Liaise with other health professionals both within the practice and in other organisations to ensure integrated care • Ensure that current evidence based approaches to patient care are standard practice • Undertake diagnostic, health screening, health surveillance and therapeutic interventions within a broader health promotion/public health strategy • Provide contraceptive advice and cervical screening • To provide health promotion advice • To provide travel health advice and immunisations • Undertake annual and interim chronic disease reviews in accordance with patient need and practice recall procedure • Provide first aid and management of emergencies • Undertake annual training in anaphylaxis and resuscitation techniques • Ordering childhood immunisations, ensuring adequate supplies and stock rotation, completing spreadsheets and monitoring fridge temperatures • Provide dementia screening • Record Doppler studies, measurement and fitting of compression hosiery Job description Job responsibilities Job Summary: • Plan and provide appropriate nursing care to patients of all ages, in conjunction with other nurses and medical staff • Carry out investigations, assess and deliver evidence based practice in accordance with practice policy and protocols • Offer advice and health education to ensure disease treatment is complimented by health promotion • Maintain a safe and effective practice at all times and bring any deficits in care to the attention of the Nurse Lead so that they can be addressed • Participate in the development of practice protocols to advance nursing roles, enhance safety and improve patient care • Mentor and supervise HCAs • Provide support to the wider MDT team to suppot high quality, patient-centred care to patients Clinical Responsibilities • To assess, plan, implement and evaluate the needs of patients to include treatment, preventative care, appropriate screening and education. • Undertake patient consultations, carry out physcial examinations, investigatory procedures and collection of specimens • Manage annual reviews of patients with long-term conditions (where appropriately trained) and undertake interim support to ensure that the condition is well controlled • Provide wound management including both chronic and postoperative wounds • Administer adult and childhood immunisations, and other injections under Patient Group Directions ensuring safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and • Liaise with other health professionals both within the practice and in other organisations to ensure integrated care • Ensure that current evidence based approaches to patient care are standard practice • Undertake diagnostic, health screening, health surveillance and therapeutic interventions within a broader health promotion/public health strategy • Provide contraceptive advice and cervical screening • To provide health promotion advice • To provide travel health advice and immunisations • Undertake annual and interim chronic disease reviews in accordance with patient need and practice recall procedure • Provide first aid and management of emergencies • Undertake annual training in anaphylaxis and resuscitation techniques • Ordering childhood immunisations, ensuring adequate supplies and stock rotation, completing spreadsheets and monitoring fridge temperatures • Provide dementia screening • Record Doppler studies, measurement and fitting of compression hosiery