NursingNetUK

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. Planning Individualised Patient Care
2. Be responsible for assessing patients to determine their clinical needs in relation to digital health/care
3. Facilitate digital health provision contributing to multidisciplinary assessment for appropriate early hospital discharge and signposting to relevant Community and Support Services
4. Frequent telephone triage to further identify and determine patients’ health/care needs
5. Frequent informed clinical decision making and co-ordination of provision to meet patients’ health/care needs
6. Frequent requirement for periods of concentration when carrying out patient assessments and writing notes
7. Regular interruptions and demands on time whilst carrying out telephone clinical assessments and care provision
8. Be responsible for assessing and recognising emergencies during telephone triage whilst interpreting information and taking appropriate action and to lead others to do the same
9. Deal with patient/relatives who are distressed and sometimes confused
10. Demonstrate appropriate practice and specialist advice in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care. This includes history taking, +/- physical examination and the requesting of agreed diagnostic procedures/clinical investigations.
11. Deal with patient/relatives who are distressed and sometimes confused
12. Promote effective and appropriate use of Community services.
13. Be responsible for and facilitate others in the knowledge and awareness of appropriate use of digital health/care solutions for patients with long term conditions
14. Use e-mail, telephone and written communication to support the service achieving contractual targets. Keep patients, carers and involved staff informed.
15. Ensure all clinical information is written up accurately, concisely, and timely
16. Responsibility for the specialist assessment, provision and co-ordination of care to individual patients in conjunction with patients and carers.
17. Advises and supports other staff in their planning of patient care.
18. Provides support and advice to patients’ carers and relatives (with consent) on patient’s conditions and prognosis where appropriate.
19. Responsibility for reviewing care delivery and maintaining records in accordance with local and with NMC guidelines and /or HCPC
20. Works as part of a multi-disciplinary team
21. Acts as patient representative to facilitate appropriate care pathways which involves effective communication to peers, other specialist practitioners, GPs and Consultants.

DELIVERY OF DIRECT CARE

• Assess, plan and evaluate care provided for patients including those with complex needs
• Facilitate the monitoring of evidence-based standards through research, clinical trials, audits and staff initiatives
• Initiate prescribed care in conjunction with Team Manager/Consultant/GP and other clinicians without direct supervision, reporting directly to Consultant Physician or AGP undertakes care delivery involving an extensive range of activities acquired through additional short courses or equivalent experience, e.g. acute and chronic disease awareness/management, assisting the multi-disciplinary team in palliative care, acute/chronic pain management, facilitating appropriate care for elimination needs, wound assessments and management, blood glucose monitoring, health promotion, acting as a formal mentor to pre-registration nursing students, adopting link roles, intravenous drug, fluid therapy, infusions, administration of nebulised drugs, administration of oxygen therapy, computer skills, liaising with and referring on to other agencies and professionals, pulse oximetry and interpretation, venepuncture and venous cannulation, management of central and mid lines, performing ECGs and in-depth history taking