Clinical Support Nurse for Hospital at Night (Critical Care Outreach)
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
Work as a Registered Nurse as part of the Hospital at Night Team, providing a comprehensive range of clinical skills to patients at night. Assessing and identifying patients clinically at risk through NEWS 2 scoring and staff concerns, initiating treatment plans when required.
You will be working at night as part of a small team of enthusiastic, motivated, and supportive registered nurses who have well established collaborations with the ICU team.
Supporting patients and health care professionals when patients are at risk of or deteriorating in the acute setting. Initiating early recognition and treatment plans to improve patient outcomes. Following up patients discharged from the Intensive Care Unit. Contribution to clinical education around the deteriorating patient.
Refer and liaise with medical colleagues as necessary to ensure safe patient care. Supporting patients and health care professionals to manage deteriorating/at risk patients.
Main duties of the job
* Assess and initiate treatment for deteriorating/at risk adults and children. Refer/escalate as required.
* Support nursing and medical teams with clinical advice and education.
* Support the management of Optiflow and CPAP for Covid patients.
* Support the management of BiPAP.
* Attend cardiac arrest calls.
* Assist with transfers of critically unwell patients.
* Verification of death.
Person Specification
Essential and desirable criteria:
* Recent experience in an acute area at senior level.
* Able to perform CPR.
* Able to work in a Covid area.
* Understanding and utilising ECG monitoring.
* Advanced Life support or equivalent.
* ILS/PILS.
* SOS course or equivalent.
* Teaching qualification.
* Non-medical prescribing.
* Advanced clinical practitioner.
* Comprehensive understanding of the critical care outreach initiative.
* Experience of formal and informal teaching.
* Management of a level 3 patient.
* Able to manage patients receiving Optiflow, CPAP, BiPAP.
* Understanding and utilisation of invasive monitoring techniques.
* Recent experience in HDU/CCU/ED/ICU.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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