Advanced Nurse Practitioner

at  Castleton Health Centre

Assess and triage patients, including same-day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescribing medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways) or make necessary referrals to other members of the primary care team. Manage undifferentiated undiagnosed conditions and identify red flags and underlying serious pathology and take appropriate action. Use complex decision-making to inform the diagnosis, investigation, and complete management of episodes of care within a broad scope of practice. Actively take a personalised care approach and population-centred care approach to enable shared decision-making with the presenting person.
Provide the choice of direct access to a nurse practitioner, both in the Practice and over the telephone, for the general practice population. Make home visits to those in need where required. Make professionally autonomous decisions for which you are accountable. Instigate necessary invasive and non-invasive diagnostic tests or investigations and interpret findings/reports.
Prescribe safe, effective and appropriate medication as defined by the current legislative framework in accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate. Provide safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, individualised patient care. Offer a holistic service to patients and their families, developing where appropriate an ongoing plan of care/support, with an emphasis on prevention and self-care. Promote health and well-being through the use of health promotion, health education, screening and therapeutic communication skills.
Refer patients directly to other services/agencies as appropriate. Contribute to the practice achieving its quality targets such as QOF and IIF to sustain the high standards of patient care and service delivery. Help develop and set up new patient services and participate in initiatives to improve existing patient services

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