Job Summary:
The Advanced Nurse Practitioner will be responsible for the assessment of health and clinical needs of the patient. To undertake consultations with patients as an autonomous practitioner using advanced clinical practice skills, own clinical judgement to diagnose, treat, refer or discharge patients
Key Responsibilities:
Service delivery
• Undertake consultations with patients taking a comprehensive patient history, carry out physical examination use their expert knowledge and clinical judgement to identify the potential diagnosis
• Exercise a higher degree of personal and professional autonomy using advances clinical practice skills to include clinical interventions
• Refer patients for investigations when necessary/appropriate
• Make a final diagnosis, decide on and carry out treatment, including the prescribing of medicine or referring to primary or secondary care specialist services within local agreed pathways and protocols as appropriate
• Ensure that all treatments and care provided are based on best practice/evidence based care
Advanced Nurse Practitioner V-JD013 – Job Description Updated April 2019
• Use their extensive to plan and provide skilled competent care to meet the patients health and social care needs, involving other members of the healthcare team as appropriate
• Work with multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams in order to ensure patient needs are met
• Asses and evaluate, with the patient, the effectiveness of the treatment and care provided and make changes as needed
• Use independent/supplementary prescribing skills for benefits of patient care
• Work independently and as part of a team
• Provide support/leadership/training/education
• Assist in clinical audit and setting and monitoring of service and unscheduled care
• Identify and take appropriate actions to address risk to the patient, this will include: