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Advanced Nurse Practitioner – Guernsey
Key Responsibilities
- Provide leadership and support in assessment, planning, and delivery of patient care within agreed responsibilities.
- Monitor practice standards, identify and address factors impacting patient care quality.
- Employ risk assessment strategies to minimize identified risks.
- Utilize data to identify problems, guide decision-making, and develop strategic service delivery.
- Promote service user involvement in care planning, delivery, and evaluation.
- Keep abreast of political and professional developments in nursing practice.
- Ensure adherence to NMC professional code of conduct and standards.
- Develop effective communication channels with relevant departments and agencies.
- Maintain practice expertise through supernumerary patient care (1 day/week).
- Work within competence and guidelines to facilitate tailored care packages.
- Collaborate with multi-professional teams to develop innovative practices.
- Collaborate with Emergency Department Doctors, receive clinical supervision, and refer beyond competency levels.
- Provide advanced health assessments based on specialist knowledge.
- Have advanced emergency care knowledge and skills, contributing to patient assessment, treatment, planning, and evaluation.
- Prescribe care elements and treatments for other healthcare team members, including pharmacological interventions.
- Order, interpret diagnostic tests, and initiate appropriate patient management (G225).
- Undertake specialist clinical skills within ACP practice (e.g., suturing, arterial blood sampling, digital nerve blocks, joint relocation, advanced airway skills).
- Exercise clinical decision-making autonomy, supported by medical professionals.
- Provide leadership in promoting client/patient health and well-being.
- Promote and support supervision implementation, providing resources and training.
- Ensure a quality learning and assessment environment.
- Identify staff training and educational needs.
- Serve as a clinical knowledge and expertise resource for nurses, doctors, and MDT team members.
- Develop learning programmes to meet staff educational needs.
- Maintain own continuing professional development.
- Complete in-house annual mandatory training (Manual Handling, Basic Life Support, Fire Safety, AED).
- Assist in recruitment and retention of team members.
- Ensure team awareness of organizational objectives, policies, and procedures.
- Monitor policy and procedure implementation.
- Assist in providing annual appraisals following the professional development review process.
- Identify and manage staff performance issues to address developmental needs.
- Monitor and review staffing levels and skill mix.
- Promote a learning culture supporting staff through change and development.
- Act as a professional role model, promoting high standards and values.
- Monitor non-medical prescribing expenditure and assist in Emergency Department budget allocation.
- Develop evidence-based policies and procedures for the ANP role.
- Communicate clearly with all staff members, demonstrating cultural and language sensitivity.
- Manage conflict between individuals, including staff, patients, and significant others.
- Ensure written communication complies with organizational and professional standards.
- Communicate with the media and other external agencies.
- Attend relevant meetings (Governance, Educational Governance, ED Management, peer reviews, hyperbaric).
- Support departmental Senior Nursing team with departmental meetings.
- Identify potential audit areas in conjunction with ward manager and band 7 staff.
- Assist and investigate critical incidents, document risks impacting patient care, and liaise with the clinical risk manager.
- Utilize data from patient feedback, critical incidents, and complaints to improve practices.
- Promote evidence-based practice for self and other staff involved in patient care.
- Develop practice, ensuring new initiatives are incorporated.
- Utilize organizational electronic information systems.
- Modify, structure, maintain, and present data in electronic and paper formats.
Skills and Expertise
- Advanced clinical skills
- Knowledge of emergency care
- Clinical assessment skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Decision-making skills
- Communication skills
- Leadership skills
- Teamwork skills
- Data analysis skills