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Staff Nurse - Band 5

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust


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Staff Nurse - Band 5

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust


736905

Accident and Emergency

Aim of the role

  • To provide high quality, effective, individualised care to all patients and assist in monitoring standards.
  • To assess care needs and develop, implement and evaluate them without supervision.
  • To assist in leading and monitoring the performance of the nursing team.
  • To respond to patients, relatives and carers concerns as they arise and take remedial action as required.

Main duties and responsibilities

  • Carry out planned care for a group of patients without direct supervision
  • Ensure the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of evidence based, individualised patient care
  • Assist and advise staff, both registered and unregistered in the delivery of patient care
  • Maintain accurate clinical observations of the patient and act accordingly
  • Undertake nursing procedures. Perform expanded practices such as PGD, Triage, cannulation , ALS, plastering and x-ray requesting
  • Have responsibility for the correct administration and custody of medicines according to Trust policy with or without discharge team referral
  • Monitor patients progress, work towards safe and timely discharge plans and ensure barriers to discharge are identified and acted on appropriately
  • Act as the patient’s advocate
  • To perform the expanded role of triage nurse in initial assessment, treatment and prioritisation of patient care.

 

Person specification

  • Previous experience of speciality
  • Knowledge of quality, standard setting and audit
  • Awareness of current developments in nursing
  • Knowledge of the NMC Code of Conduct
  • Knowledge of speciality

 

For more information please review the full  job description in the Additional Information section

Permanent

Full Time

5

Band 5

Maidstone

England


Staff Nurse - Band 5

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust