Practice Nurse inBrentwood inBrentwood PUBLISHED 2 DEC 2023

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Tile House Surgery is looking to recruit a practice nurse, who will work as part of the primary healthcare team, providing personal medical services, in a holistic way, to the patients of the practice whilst upholding a very high standard of nursing care.

• Assist & perform routine tasks, related to patient care.
• Perform holistic assessments of patients attending for cervical smear tests & carry out cervical smear tests. Training can be given.
• Undertake wound management & wound care.
• Remove sutures.
• Run well-person clinics & health promotion programmes.
• Offer travel health vaccines.
• Perform ECGs.
• Carry out chronic disease management clinics & other clinics including review of electronic patient questionnaires & data.
• Offer advice about childhood & adult vaccinations, carry out vaccinations.
• Be able to recognise & manage anaphylaxis.
• Carry out LD, mental health & dementia reviews.
• Participate in the annual 'flu vaccination programme, as well as other vaccination programmes such as shingles and pneumonia.
• Chaperoning patients & assisting.
• Assist GPs with minor surgery & coil fittings.
• Request pathology tests, urine samples or cultures.
• Use disposable instruments.
• Participation in administrative systems & meetings.
• Maintain accurate records using the patients computer medical record & the recommended read codes and templates.
• Ensure awareness of statutory & local clinical protection procedures.
• Have the ability to recognise signs & symptoms of child abuse & undertake regular child protection training.
• Be up-to-date with cardio-pulmonary resuscitation & emergency situations.
• Keep a personal development plan, updating & reviewing it as necessary, inline with current NMC re-validation guidelines.
• Maintain annual mandatory e-learning.