University Hospital Kerry is the second largest of the Health Service Executive –South's seven acute hospitals.
The hospital provides acute general hospital services to the population of Co. Kerry (139,616) and additionally to a proportion of the populations of West Limerick and North Cork.
The hospital has 275 acute general beds; 50 Acute Psychiatric beds, 46 elderly continuing care beds and an Annual Budget of approximately 70 million.
The hospital treats over 20,000 inpatients per annum and approximately 41,0000 patients attend the Outpatients Department Accident and Emergency attendances are over 34.000 annually.
University Hospital Kerry range and scope of services provided.
?Emergency Medicine.
?Ear nose and Throat Services.
?General Medicine including Medicine of the Elderly& Endocrinology.
?General Surgery.
?Endoscopy.
?Adult Intensive Care.
?Coronary Care/High Dependency
?Gynaecology (inc.Colposcopy,menorrhagia, Fertility and Urodynamics)
?Obstetrics.
?Orthopaedics.
?Paediatrics including Special Care Baby Unit.
?Audiology.
?Palliative Care
?Psychiatry
?Radiography, including C.T.
Scanning Service
?Renal Dialysis Satellite Unit.
Our guiding principles are to work in partnership with patients and other healthcare providers across the continuum of care to:
•Deliver high quality, safe, timely and equitable patient care by developing and ensuring sustainable clinical services to meet the needs of our population.
•Deliver integrated services across the SSWHG Hospitals, with clear lines of responsibility, accountability and authority, whilst maintaining individual hospital site integrity.
•Continue to develop and improve our clinical services supported by education, research and innovation, in partnership with University College Cork, Munster Technological University and other academic partners.
•Recruit, retain and develop highly-skilled multidisciplinary teams through support, engagement and empowerment.
We are committed to ensuring that our patients are at the centre of all service design, development and delivery.
Over the five years of the strategy we will further develop our services, both clinical and organisational based around seven key themes: Quality and Patient Safety; Patient Access; Governance and Integration; Skilled Caring Staff; Education Research and Innovation; eHealth and Infrastructure.
These will be our key areas of focus to enable us to meet the future needs of our patients.
Purpose of Post The main purpose of the post is to develop the job description and supporting documentation under the direction of the Health Care Provider's Advanced Practice Stakeholder Governance Group, to enable the individual nurse to meet the NMBI Criteria for Registration as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner as set out in Advanced Practice (Nursing) Standards and Requirements (NMBI, 2017).
The individual will undertake the academic preparation and develop the clinical and leadership skills, competencies and knowledge required to meet the criteria to be registered as a RANP with NMBI.
The scope of the cANP role must reflect the incremental development of expertise and as such, the cANP cannot deliver care as an autonomous practitioner.
The individual will complete and submit the necessary documentation for registration as an RANP with NMBI.
The value of the nursing contribution as a distinct profession must be safeguarded and articulated in the development of new services led by advanced nurse practitioners, complementing rather than replacing current services delivered by doctors (NMBI, 2017 p.9).
The overall purpose of the service is to provide safe, timely, evidenced based nurse-led care to patients at an advanced nursing level.
This service is provided by nurses who practice at a higher level of capability as independent, autonomous and expert advanced practitioners.
This involves undertaking and documenting complete episodes of patient care, which includes comprehensively assessing, diagnosing, planning, treating and discharging patients in accordance with collaboratively agreed local policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines and/or service level agreements/ memoranda of understanding.
The cANP Orthopaedics demonstrates advanced clinical and theoretical knowledge, skill and experience that is applied within the nurse-patient /client relationship to achieve optimal outcomes through critical thinking/analysis, problem solving, clinical leadership, and accurate decision-making abilities.
(NMBI ,2017)
The cANP Orthopaedics practices in accordance with the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics for Registered Nurses and Registered Midwives (NMBI 2014), the Scope of Nursing and Midwifery Practice Framework (NMBI 2015), Advanced Practice (Nursing)
Standards and Requirements (NMBI 2017), and the Values for Nurses and Midwives in Ireland (Department of Health 2016).
Central to this is the provision of quality care , safe environment and processes for patients by the use of evidence based clinical guideline that address patient expectations , promotes wellness and evaluate care given .
This role will provide clinical leadership and professional scholarship in the delivery of optimal nursing services and informs the development of evidence-based health policy at local, regional and national levels.
The cANP Orthopaedics contributes to nursing research that shapes and advances nursing practice, education and health care policy at local, national and international levels.
Informal Enquiries Karena Gilligan
A/ADON Perioperative Directorate
Tel: 087 0674407
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