Location: Exeter
Salary: £15.00 - 30.00 per hour
Posted: 30 October 2024
Working hours: Part Time
Close date: 29 November 2024
SACT nurses should be trained to give treatments independently. Although a Trust nurse will also be assigned to the bay, workers will be running their own lists.
1. Provide effective clinical and managerial leadership across the oncology and haematology areas, including inpatients daycase and outpatients, in the absence of the Clinical Nurse Manager (CNM) which empowers staff to deliver patient-centred, evidence based care within a defined budget.
2. Establish systems for a multi-disciplinary approach to patient-centred care delivery and demonstrate good interpersonal, teaching and practical skills required within the speciality, whilst reflecting the oncology and haematology philosophy of care demonstrating greater involvement of patients and their relatives/carers by using the Trust’s patient and public involvement strategy.
3. Demonstrate a good knowledge of treatment side effects and care, and provide patients and carers with advice and support in relation to health promotion, neutropenic sepsis, and hair loss and other treatment side effects.
4. Practice advanced specialist skills for the client group, including the administration of Cytotoxic & Immunotherapies treatments, and blood products, central venous and peripheral access device care, venepuncture and cannulation.
5. Assess patients prior to treatment to determine whether alterations to planned care are needed and refer as appropriate.
6. Assess the supportive, palliative care and psychological needs of patients and their carers and refer to appropriate professionals as necessary.
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