Newton Port Surgery Medical Group of Practices – Treatment Room Nurse Job Description
NURSE IN GENERAL PRACTICE (Treatment Room)
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job Title: Treatment Room Nurse
Main Purpose of Post: To share workload and responsibility of delivering Treatment Room duties with colleagues, making best use of clinical
skills within the Practices, enabling the Practices to be diverse in the services provided.
Provide a service complementary to GPs
To provide appointments
To provide a high quality, easily accessible service
Responsible to: Senior Treatment Room Nurse, the Group Administrator and Partners.
Qualification: RGN/ Adult Nursing, NMC Registered (Revalidation), Disclosure.
Hours per week: 18 hours per week 9am- 6pm Thursday and Friday
Band: 5
Salary: Dependent on Experience
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
1. To be able to hold TR sessions for patients without seeing a GP first.
2. To diagnose, discharge or refer to GP.
3. Encourage the use of management and prescribing protocols.
4. To be cost effective.
5. To promote healthy lifestyles.
6. To supervise HCA and phlebotomist
7. To present an alternative choice of care to patients.
8. Ordering and checking equipment and stock.
THE ROLE
1. Clinical
1.1 To provide a holistic, clinical nursing service by attending to referrals and self-referrals of practice patients.
Making an assessment of their physical and social needs,
Implementing an agreed management plan with patients including appropriate referral.
1.2 To set standards of care by implementing protocols and encouraging health promotion activities.
1.3 With support of General Practitioners to manage minor injuries, dressings, investigations and treatments.
2. Audit
2.1. To ensure Clinical Nursing activities are evidence based.
2.2 To undertake an active role in carrying out audits in conjunction with other health professionals.
This will have a broad objective of improving or re-evaluating Nursing care.
3. Management
3.1 To ensure Nursing activities remain within broad policy objectives of the Group.
3.2 To report, document and evaluate your work as a Nurse and to demonstrate its importance both to patients and the Surgery.
4. Professional
4.1 To provide a high standard of Professional conduct and Nursing care at all times in accordance with the NMC code of conduct.
4.2 To participate in teaching student nurses, medical students (GPRs) and other students as appropriate.
4.3 To attend relevant meetings, courses, seminars and keep professionally up-to-date.
4.4 Any other duties considered relevant to the Post.
ECG routine & urgent
Dressings
Venepuncture
Coagucheck blood tests
Chaperoning
Assist with Minor Operations
Cervical Smears
Contraception
C- Card
Travel Medicine
Ear syringing
Cryotherapy
B.P. Reviews
Dopplers
Suture Removal/ Staple Removal
Audiograms
Swabs
Minor Injuries
Heights and Weights
Emergencies
Assist with Coil Fittings
Vaccination/Injections
Compression Bandaging
Measure and order compression hosiery
Pill Checks
HRT Checks
Telephone Calls
Keep TR and equipment clean/sterilised
Supervise HCA/Phlebotomists
Stock Treatment Room Daily
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