A registered nurse with appropriate qualifications is responsible for the delivery of practice nursing services, working as part of the practice multidisciplinary team, delivering care within their scope of practice to the entitled patient population. The practice nurse will be responsible for several clinical areas such as health promotion, chronic disease management, health prevention, well women and well man clinics, as well as supporting the management team in the reviewing of clinical policy and procedure.

Job Responsibilities Strategic management & planning

- Keep abreast of current affairs and identify potential threats and opportunities
- Contribute to Practice strategy; formulate objectives and research and develop ideas for future Practice development
- Work with Partners and Practice Manager in planning and setting strategic targets
- To undertake required tasks to meet the agreed aims and be wholly responsible for them
- Develop and maintain effective communication both within the Practice and with relevant outside agencies

Primary Responsibilities:

- Identify, manage, and support patients at risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patients health
- Provide routine nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF
- Provide vaccination and travel medicine services, including childhood, adult and travel vaccinations
- Provide wound care ulcer /Doppler etc. to patients, including dressings
- Request pathology services as necessary
- Process pathology results as required




- Provide chronic disease clinics and Maintain skills and an interest in Diabetes, Asthma, COPD, Spirometry, Coronary Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke TIA and Contraception.
- Delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary specialist care as required
- Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation
- Ensure read codes are used effectively
- Maintain chronic disease registers
- Implement and promote health during NHS Healthchecks
- Implement vaccination programmes for adults and children and travel
- Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately
- Recognise, assess, and refer patients presenting with mental health needs to the appropriate services
- Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines within own scope of practice
- Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance with local and national policies
- Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate
- Maintain baby immunisation results records
- Maintain smears results logs
- Maintain emergency drug kit and log sheets
- Manage daily fridge temperatures and log sheets, and be aware of the cold chain procedures

Secondary Responsibilities:

- Develop, implement,



and embed health promotion and well-being programmes
- Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for chronic disease patients
- Assist GPs with minor surgery when required
- Chaperone patients where necessary
- Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies
- Liaise with external services including specialist nursing teams and agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately vulnerable patients
- Delegate clinical responsibilities appropriately ensuring protected practice and the task is within the scope of practice of the individual
- Understand practice and local policies
- Act as the audit lead, effectively utilising the audit cycle
- Monitor and ensure the safe storage, rotation, and disposal of medicines
- Support junior members of the nursing team, providing guidance when necessary
- Participate in local initiatives to enhance service delivery and patient care
- Support and participate in shared learning within the practice
- Continually review clinical practices, responding to national policies and initiatives where appropriate
- Participate in the review of significant and near-miss events applying a structured approach i.e. root cause analysis (RCA)
- Other tasks will include Maintaining and cleaning equipment used by the nurses and GPs
- Maintaining Nurses rooms, stocking and rotating items as required
- Maintain general tidiness and cleanliness of nurses and treatment rooms
- Assisting with the ordering of vaccinations, dressings and equipment to maintain stock levels
- A duty to advise se

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