University Hospital Kerry is the second largest of the Health Service Executive – South's seven acute hospitals.
With a catchment area of Kerry, North Cork & West Limerick, it services a population of approx.
over 180,554.
In addition, the Kerry area has quite a large visiting population – Bord Fáilte / Shannon Development estimate there are approximately 2 million tourists visiting this region annually, principally during the summer months.
The 24/7 Emergency department cares for over 40,000 Emergency presentations annually.
The hospital has 238 acute general beds inclusive of 29 Paediatric Beds and 9 HDU Beds.
It also has 50 Acute Psychiatric beds and ?? Palliative Care Beds on site.
The Emergency Department adopts The Acute Floor Model and commends itself on delivering high quality, safe care where and when it's needed.
We offer patient-centred care treating patients with dignity, respect and compassion.
The Emergency Department is managed operationally and professionally by the Assistant Director of Nursing and a Clinical Nurse Manager 3 in conjunction with the Emergency Medicine Consultants.
There is a strong emphasis on multidisciplinary team work within the department and throughout the Emergency Department.
University Hospital Kerry range and scope of services provided.
?Emergency Medicine.
?Ear nose and Throat Services.
?General Medicine including Medicine of the Elderly& Endocrinology.
?General Surgery.
?Endoscopy.
?Adult Intensive Care.
?Coronary Care/High Dependency
?Gynaecology (inc.Colposcopy,menorrhagia, Fertility and Urodynamics)
?Obstetrics.
?Orthopaedics.
?Paediatrics including Special Care Baby Unit.
?Audiology.
?Palliative Care
?Psychiatry
?Radiography, including C.T.
Scanning Service
?Renal Dialysis Satellite Unit.
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 by developing and ensuring sustainable clinical services to meet the needs of our population.
•Deliver integrated services across the SSWHG Hospitals, with clear lines of responsibility, accountability and authority, whilst maintaining individual hospital site integrity.
•Continue to develop and improve our clinical services supported by education, research and innovation, in partnership with University College Cork, Munster Technological University and other academic partners.
•Recruit, retain and develop highly-skilled multidisciplinary teams through support, engagement and empowerment.
We are committed to ensuring that our patients are at the centre of all service design, development and delivery.
Over the five years of the strategy we will further develop our services, both clinical and organisational based around seven key themes: Quality and Patient Safety; Patient Access; Governance and Integration; Skilled Caring Staff; Education Research and Innovation; eHealth and Infrastructure.
These will be our key areas of focus to enable us to meet the future needs of our patients.
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 scope of the cANP role must reflect the incremental development of expertise and as such, the cANP cannot deliver care as an autonomous practitioner.
The individual will complete and submit the necessary documentation for registration as an RANP with NMBI.
The value of the nursing contribution as a distinct profession must be safeguarded and articulated in the development of new services led by advanced nurse practitioners, complementing rather than replacing current services delivered by doctors (NMBI, 2017 p.9).
The overall purpose of the service is to provide safe, timely, evidenced based nurse-led care to patients at an advanced nursing level.
This service is provided by nurses who practice at a higher level of capability as independent, autonomous and expert advanced practitioners.
This involves undertaking and documenting complete episodes of patient care, which includes comprehensively assessing, diagnosing, planning, treating and discharging patients in accordance with collaboratively agreed local policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines and/or service level agreements/ memoranda of understanding.
The cANP acute medicine 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.
(NMBI ,2017)
The cANP acute medicine practices in accordance with the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics for Registered Nurses and Registered Midwives (NMBI 2014), the Scope of Nursing and Midwifery Practice Framework (NMBI 2015), Advanced Practice (Nursing)
Standards and Requirements (NMBI 2017), and the Values for Nurses and Midwives in Ireland (Department of Health 2016).
Central to this is the provision of quality care, safe environment and processes for patients by the use of evidence based clinical guideline that address patient expectations, promotes wellness and evaluate care given .
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.
The cANP acute medicine contributes to nursing research that shapes and advances nursing practice, education and health care policy at local, national and international levels.
Informal Enquiries Mairead O'Sullivan, Assistant Director of Nursing Emergency Dept/Patient Flow/ Acute Floor Projects
Tel: 087 3431003
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