General Practice Nurse inLiskeard inLiskeard PUBLISHED
FRI 8 NOV 2024
Depending on experience
PERMANENT
BLOOD PRESSURE CASELOAD FAMILY HOLISTIC NMC ROLE MODEL URINALYSIS VENEPUNCTURE
Opportunity to deliver safe and effective nursing care to a diverse practice population, enhancing community health.
Autonomous practice that allows for critical thinking and independent decision-making in patient care.
Collaborative work environment with a dedicated general practice team, fostering professional relationships and teamwork.
Engagement with a patient population that has a high prevalence of chronic diseases, providing valuable experience in managing complex health conditions.
Continuous professional development through training and participation in clinical meetings to stay updated with best practices and health policies.
Diverse clinical responsibilities ranging from minor illness consultations to administering vaccines, allowing for a varied and fulfilling work experience.
The General Practice Nurse at Oak Tree Surgery & Pensilva Health Centre in Liskeard is responsible for delivering safe and effective nursing care to the practice population, focusing on health promotion, monitoring long-term conditions, and providing immediate care. This autonomous role requires collaboration with the healthcare team to manage both acute and chronic caseloads, prioritize health problems, and uphold high standards in patient care. As the practice deals with a significant number of chronic diseases, the nurse must demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and excellent clinical decision-making skills under pressure.
Key responsibilities include reviewing medication effectiveness, administering vaccines, conducting health screenings, and providing family planning advice. The nurse will also maintain professional registration, contribute to internal and external meetings, engage in continuous professional development, and utilize technology for patient care planning and monitoring. Additional duties involve wound care, performing medical assessments like ECGs and blood pressure measurements, and assisting in minor surgeries. Overall, the role is crucial for ensuring holistic patient support and quality care within the primary healthcare setting.
Key responsibilities include reviewing medication effectiveness, administering vaccines, conducting health screenings, and providing family planning advice. The nurse will also maintain professional registration, contribute to internal and external meetings, engage in continuous professional development, and utilize technology for patient care planning and monitoring. Additional duties involve wound care, performing medical assessments like ECGs and blood pressure measurements, and assisting in minor surgeries. Overall, the role is crucial for ensuring holistic patient support and quality care within the primary healthcare setting.
The post holder is responsible for ensuring the delivery of safe and effective nursing care to the whole practice population. As an autonomous practitioner the nurse is responsible for delivering patient care, supporting patients to be healthy, monitoring of long-term conditions, health promotion and screening activities and demonstrating critical thinking and skills in clinical decision-making. They will work collaboratively with the whole general practice team to meet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures.
Your key responsibility is to provide and maintain a high standard of nursing care for our patients as well as providing nursing assistance to the health care team.The Practice population has a high prevalence of chronic diseases, therefore the ability to work under pressure, prioritise, and work flexibly as a part of a team whilst remaining resilient is essential.
About us
- To ensure the highest standards of care are provided for patients
- To manage and develop a clinical acute and chronic case load, dealing with presenting patients needs in a primary care setting
- Review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patients needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practice protocols.
- Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care
- To deliver a high standard of patient care using specialist practice Nurse skills
- Attend and contribute to relevant internal and external meetings as required including practice clinical meetings, nurse team meetings and gold standard framework meetings
- Maintain a personal progress and training plan to keep up-to date with current thinking and developments as well as identifying own training deficiencies and attending suitable courses as appropriate
- Promote evidence based practice through use of the latest research based guidelines
- Monitor the effectiveness of their own clinical practice through quality assurance strategies such as the use of peer audit and review
- Maintain professional registration
- Work within the latest NMC Code of Professional Conduct
- Ensure collection and maintenance of statistical information required for regular and ad hoc reports.
- Record accurate consultation data in patients records in accordance with NMC guidance and other standards
- Keep up to date with pertinent health policy and work with the practice team to consider the impact and strategies for implementation
- Work collaboratively with colleagues both internally and externally
- Use technology and appropriate software packages as an aid to the planning, implementation and monitoring of care, presenting and communicating information
- Act as a role model in the observance of equality and diversity good practice
- Consulting for minor health problems in Practice Nurse Minor Illness Surgeries and obtaining prescriptions where necessary. The On Call Team will always be available for advice and will see patients if necessary
- Administer appropriate vaccines to adults and children according to up to date Department of Health guidelines including vaccinations for foreign travel
- Family Planning advice and help including checking of caps and IUCDs
- Monitoring and care of post menopausal women including those taking HRT
- Cervical cytology
- Giving health promotion advice to patients during consultations as appropriate
- Wound care / ulcer care
- Removal of Sutures
- New Patient Medicals
- Urinalysis
- ECG recording
- Blood Pressure measurements
- Asthma/Peak Flow Readings/Spirometry
- Venepuncture
- Chaperoning and assisting patients where appropriate who are being examined by another clinician
- Assisting with minor surgery and coil fittings
- Requesting pathology tests, for example urine culture, swabs
- Maintaining stocks of medicines, drugs, vaccines, dressings and equipment and re-ordering as necessary
- Any other delegated duties appropriate to the post (this list is not exhaustive and can be subject to change).
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1. Can you describe your experience in managing long-term conditions and how you prioritise patient care in such cases?
2. How do you ensure that the nursing care you provide is evidence-based? Can you give an example from your past experience?
3. What approach do you take when monitoring a patient's medication for therapeutic effectiveness? Can you describe a time when you had to evaluate a patient’s treatment plan?
4. How do you handle complex or urgent situations, especially when immediate decisions need to be made?
5. Can you explain your experience with minor surgery assistance and how you maintain patient safety during these procedures?
1. Can you describe your experience in managing long-term conditions and how you prioritise patient care in such cases?
2. How do you ensure that the nursing care you provide is evidence-based? Can you give an example from your past experience?
3. What approach do you take when monitoring a patient's medication for therapeutic effectiveness? Can you describe a time when you had to evaluate a patient’s treatment plan?
4. How do you handle complex or urgent situations, especially when immediate decisions need to be made?
5. Can you explain your experience with minor surgery assistance and how you maintain patient safety during these procedures?
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