Clinical Practice
1. Works as a nurse, utilising specialist knowledge and decision-making skills and promoting clinical excellence to ensure an optimum standard of nursing care is delivered from admission to discharge in a timely manner.
2. To carry out safe effective triage and clinical assessment within the Band 5 competencies.
3. To promote, maintain and monitor the best possible standards of care within the resources available, working in line with Trust and Department policies and within the framework of their governing body's Professional Code of Conduct.
4. To administer medicines under Patient Group Directives in line with trust policy.
5. To request and interpret appropriate laboratory tests as required as part of ongoing patient care.
6. Identifies and manages child protection issues and raises awareness with medical and nursing staff.
7. Identifies and manages issues related to mental health and vulnerable adults, raising awareness with medical, AHP and nursing staff.
8. Work in areas subjected to frequent highly unpleasant conditions such as odours/body fluids and patients showing aggression.
9. Liaises with appropriate agencies and members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure ongoing care is managed for at-risk patients on leaving the emergency department and/or hospital.
10. To undertake the use of moderate physical effort in controlled restraint of patients undergoing procedures with learning disabilities, the manoeuvring of patients in confined spaces and patients presenting with decreased level of consciousness due to trauma, drugs, or alcohol.
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