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You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Would you like your first role to be somewhere where you are nurtured, given the correct amount of supernumerary training and support to feel confident, an environment where you can utilise your skills and give patients the care you really want to. We are recruiting Nurses/ODP to join our exceptional theatre team. We have a choice of roles and areas to work in. The areas are:Children's Hospital for Wales cares for all paediatric patients requiring surgery.The roles in Theatre consist of scrub practitioners, anaesthetic practitioners and Recovery Practitioners. Recovery Practitioners are experts in post anaesthetic care, delivering specialised care to patients. They have a depth of knowledge related to pain and airway management and transition those patients from the acute theatre setting to the ward or escalate to critical care.Our team are renowned as highly skilled and a vital part of the wider Perioperative Care Directorate. Through joining us you will be offered unrivalled training and professional support within a hardworking and dedicated environment.
To assess pain, ensuring that the patient has received appropriate analgesia prior to their return to the ward. This will include routes such as IV aministration, orally, rectally and intramuscularly if needed. Also via the use of PCA's, epidurals, local nerve infusions of which training will be given.
Manage the patient's airway safely until they are able to do so themselves. Inform the anaesthetist or surgeon of any changes in the patients condition.
To nurse ventilated patients in recovery prior to transfer to Critical Care under the supervision of the anaesthetistTo be aware of emergency call system should any patient's condition deteriorate rapidly and assist with intubation and/or cardiac arrestTo hand over the patient to a qualified nurse on ward as per policy, including all items in situ and medication necessaryTo liaise with Critical Care on the availability of beds for patient transfer according to department policy. Look after these patients for an extended stay if necessary until bed available
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Would you like your first role to be somewhere where you are nurtured, given the correct amount of supernumerary training and support to feel confident, an environment where you can utilise your skills and give patients the care you really want to. We are recruiting Nurses/ODP to join our exceptional theatre team. We have a choice of roles and areas to work in. The areas are:Children's Hospital for Wales cares for all paediatric patients requiring surgery.The roles in Theatre consist of scrub practitioners, anaesthetic practitioners and Recovery Practitioners. Recovery Practitioners are experts in post anaesthetic care, delivering specialised care to patients. They have a depth of knowledge related to pain and airway management and transition those patients from the acute theatre setting to the ward or escalate to critical care.Our team are renowned as highly skilled and a vital part of the wider Perioperative Care Directorate. Through joining us you will be offered unrivalled training and professional support within a hardworking and dedicated environment.
To assess pain, ensuring that the patient has received appropriate analgesia prior to their return to the ward. This will include routes such as IV aministration, orally, rectally and intramuscularly if needed. Also via the use of PCA's, epidurals, local nerve infusions of which training will be given.
Manage the patient's airway safely until they are able to do so themselves. Inform the anaesthetist or surgeon of any changes in the patients condition.
To nurse ventilated patients in recovery prior to transfer to Critical Care under the supervision of the anaesthetistTo be aware of emergency call system should any patient's condition deteriorate rapidly and assist with intubation and/or cardiac arrestTo hand over the patient to a qualified nurse on ward as per policy, including all items in situ and medication necessaryTo liaise with Critical Care on the availability of beds for patient transfer according to department policy. Look after these patients for an extended stay if necessary until bed available
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
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