EMERGENCY NURSE PRACTITIONER

Job Description:

Job responsibilities:

• Ability to prioritise clinical workload and responsibilities.
• Maintain flow of UTC patients in collaboration with senior nursing, medical and administrative colleagues.
• Ensure good personal time management to enable the unit to open/close promptly and all clinical staff to have appropriate refreshment breaks.
• Analyze and interpret history, presenting symptoms, physical findings and diagnostic information to develop differential diagnoses
• Make independent treatment decisions based on the interpretation of results within own scope of practice, local and national guidance
• Work within own scope of practice, with a view to expanding scope with appropriate teaching training and supervision
• Perform specific procedures (e.g. suturing, foreign body removal, manipulation and relocation of fractures/dislocations) within scope of own practice, demonstrating high level of knowledge and skill.
• Prescribe within the scope of practice as a Registered Non-Medical prescriber.
• Advise on the promotion of health and prevention of illness.