Candidate Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Orthopaedic Trauma, University Hospital Kerry
* Kerry, County Kerry, Ireland
* Full Time, Temporary
Who We Are
The newly established HSE South West health region will manage and deliver all public health and social care services in Cork and Kerry, serving more than 700,000 people. HSE South West includes all hospital and community healthcare services in the region.
Skills and Attributes
* Commitment to providing a quality Service
* Communication & Interpersonal Skills
* Analysing & Decision Making
* Professional Knowledge & Experience
Description
University Hospital Kerry is the second largest of the Health Service Executive – South’s seven acute hospitals. The hospital provides acute general hospital services to the population of Co. Kerry (139,616) and additionally to a proportion of the populations of West Limerick and North Cork.
The hospital has 275 acute general beds; 50 Acute Psychiatric beds; 46 elderly continuing care beds, and an annual budget of approximately 70 million. The hospital treats over 20,000 inpatients per annum and approximately 41,000 patients attend the Outpatients Department. Accident and Emergency attendances are over 34,000 annually.
Our guiding principles are to work in partnership with patients and other healthcare providers across the continuum of care to deliver high quality, safe, timely, and equitable patient care.
Purpose of Post
The main purpose of the post is to develop the job description and supporting documentation under the direction of the Health Care Provider’s Advanced Practice Stakeholder Governance Group, to enable the individual nurse to meet the NMBI Criteria for Registration as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner as set out in Advanced Practice (Nursing) Standards and Requirements (NMBI, 2017).
The individual will undertake the academic preparation and develop the clinical and leadership skills, competencies, and knowledge required to meet the criteria to be registered as a RANP with NMBI. The cANP Orthopaedics demonstrates advanced clinical and theoretical knowledge, skill, and experience that is applied within the nurse-patient/client relationship to achieve optimal outcomes through critical thinking, analysis, problem solving, clinical leadership, and accurate decision-making abilities.
This role will provide clinical leadership and professional scholarship in the delivery of optimal nursing services and informs the development of evidence-based health policy at local, regional, and national levels.
HSE South is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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