Specialist Nurse working with patients on peritoneal dialysis, supporting them at home. Working in the hospital and community within the renal unit.
Main duties of the job
1. To work as a member of the Oxford Kidney Unit Peritoneal Dialysis Team providing support, education, training and advice to patients requiring home treatment for chronic renal failure.
2. To be responsible for a caseload of home patients, ensuring that they are receiving an optimal amount of dialysis and a high standard of treatment & care, either in the community or in the hospital.
3. To work in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team, primary health care team and outside agencies, i.e., suppliers of products, to provide a holistic approach to caring for home therapies.
4. To be a supportive team member and to develop evidence-based home therapies renal knowledge.
Job responsibilities
1. Provide advice, education and support for patients and staff in the renal unit / other departments.
2. Deal with any outpatient telephone queries and assess patients in the unit.
3. Provide nurse consultations in the clinic or at the patients home.
4. Liaise closely with the Home Therapies/ PD nurses in Network units, providing peer support.
5. Promote a culture that supports and enables self-care. Support the development of patient focused education, including training to self-manage on-going consequences of treatment.
6. Liaise with primary care teams regarding the care of home therapy patients, providing education and information when required.
7. Contribute to the on-call rota.
8. Oversee the care and treatment of a caseload of patients working autonomously as their named nurse, ensuring tests/blood tests are done as per protocol.
9. Ensure patients receive optimal dialysis treatment, taking quality of life into account, making necessary changes to patients regime as required.
10. Conduct a root cause analysis after every new episode of PD peritonitis.
11. Involvement in the day-to-day administration of the PD/home HD programme.
12. Use current research/best evidence to underpin clinical practice. Involvement in any research studies underway in the unit.
13. Ensure that all equipment used by staff or patients is maintained in a safe working condition.
14. Manage complaints from relatives/patients, to prevent further escalation whilst promoting support to the manager.
Education
1. Supervise, teach and support nursing and non-nursing staff involved in direct patient care.
2. Participate in formal teaching sessions on renal unit study days.
3. Mentor undergraduate/post registration renal course students.
4. Be responsible for one's own professional development and continuing education in both nephrology and RRT Nursing.
5. Contribute to protocols, documentation systems, standards, policies and clinical guidelines for others to use in practice.
Person Specification
Renal experience
Essential
* Car driver and access to a car
* NMC registration
* 2 years renal nursing
Employer details
Employer name: Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Churchill Hospital, Old Road, Headington, OX3 7LE
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