Role Title:
Enhanced Primary Care Nurse
Role Location:
Base Balally.
A full-time Maternity cover (12 month) role has arisen within Vhi for an Enhanced Primary Care Nurse role.
The role is to carry out screening of patients and enhanced primary care nursing duties. To support the enhanced primary care CNM2 in the delivery of care to the highest clinical standard across enhanced primary care.
You will join a multidisciplinary team of health professionals in the delivery of effective and high-quality primary care, encompassing medical screening to all patients.
Benefits:
* Excellent company Pension
* Health Insurance
* Income Protection
Role Purpose
* Carry out medical screenings and other enhanced primary care nursing requirements of patients to the highest clinical standard.
* Duties and responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
o Phlebotomy
o Primary childhood and adult immunisations
o ECG/ABPM
o Ear syringing
o Wound care/suture removal
o Chronic disease management
o Lifestyle management
o Medical screening
* Support the CNM2 in ensuring standards are achieved and maintained.
* Provide leadership to agency and new nurses to ensure they are following policies and procedures.
* Participate in induction training and competency assessment for new nurses.
* Monitor and ensure that all required medical consumables and equipment are available, maintained and calibrated in the Medical Centre and maintain equipment logs.
* Manage clinical waste produced as per Vhi Health & Wellbeing guidelines.
* Provide clinical leadership to deal with patient complaints and incidents as they occur, investigate the causes and escalate as appropriate.
* Answer patient queries as required.
* Participate in clinical audits, quality improvement and patient safety initiatives and take a proactive role in identifying and suggesting areas for improvement.
* Work as part of a team to ensure patients receive excellent clinical and customer-focused experience.
* Work within the Medical Centres and Vhi LiveWell / HealthCheck@Work Enhanced services.
* Other duties as may be required but will not expand outside your scope of practice.
Education & Experience
Certificates of competence in:
* Venepuncture
* Basic Life Support
* Manual and Patient Handling
Must be registered on the General Division of the Register of Nurses & Midwives maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI).
Minimum of 3 years post-graduate clinical nursing experience within the past 5 years.
Skills and Abilities
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
* Professional, courteous manner.
* Competent in computer skills.
* Experience of working in a Health Screening environment involving near patient testing is desirable.
* Full Driving Licence
Note: This role profile does not set out to capture every task to be carried out by the role holder but instead provides an overview of the main responsibilities of the job. It can be amended from time to time with reasonable notice to the role holder.
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