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Location
Swindon | United Kingdom
Job description
Use specialist skills and knowledge to assess individual cardiac patients. Perform nurse led clinics, working autonomously, including taking patient history and physical examination. Order appropriate pathology testing, ECGs, X-rays, echocardiography, CT coronary angiograms, stress testing and coronary angiography. Act as an expert resource to assess patients with cardiac conditions. Develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care. Identify risk factors and advise on care and management following referral by agreed protocol. Implement local and national guidance (eg. NICE). Reduce the impact of symptoms through achieving effective medical therapy through nurse prescribing. Be responsible for assessing, monitoring and managing risk in this patient group, working within the Clinical Governance Framework to improve service quality. Obtain informed consent for patients undergoing elective cardiac procedure. Further develop nurse-led clinics for this patient group in consultation with the Consultant Cardiologist, and evaluate this service. Improve access to medicines management via independent nurse prescribing within scope of competence within the nurse led clinics. Provide patients and their families appropriate and evidence based advice regarding lifestyle modification, cardiac event and recovery. Accurate and legible documentation should be completed to record Cardiac assessments/interventions. Contribute to a patients seamless care between secondary and primary care by providing good written communication to the patients GP and patient regarding individual assessments and behavior changes/goals agreed. Signposting and referring where appropriate patients to other health professionals or supportive services e.g. smoking cessation, dietetic team, psychology services. Input and update patient records on the local RACPC database. Manage own caseload of and outpatients. Actively contribute to Cardiology team in service training/updates for all members of the team. Supervise and provide learning opportunities for other members of staff including nursing students. Address and deal with unexpected events that impact on service delivery e.g. staff sickness to prioritise workload appropriately. Maintain knowledge of research and development within the field of Cardiology on a National and International level. Identify appropriate areas of the service that may benefit from audit or research and liaise with senior members of the team to undertake research/audit projects. Be accountable for continuously improving the quality of their services and safeguarding high standards of care, and contribute to creating an environment where clinical excellence will flourish. Maintain competency in ILS and defibrillation skills
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Salary
£35.39k - £42.62k per annum
