Cork Kerry Community Healthcare
Job title:
Registered Advanced Nurse Practitioner (RANP) – Mental Health Services of the Older Person (MHSOP), Adult Mental Health Services, Cork
Company
Cork Kerry Community Healthcare
Job description
The advanced practice service is provided by nurses who practice at a higher level of capability as independent, autonomous and expert advanced practitioners. The overall purpose of the service is to provide safe, timely, evidenced based nurse-led care to patients at an advanced nursing level. 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 RANP MHSOP demonstrates advanced clinical and theoretical knowledge, critical thinking, clinical leadership and complex decision-making abilities.The RANP MHSOP 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).The RANP MHSOP service provides 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 RANP MHSOP contributes to nursing research that shapes and advances nursing practice, education and health care policy at local, national and international levels.The role of the RANP MHSOP will be to assess patient/clients/service users over the age of 65 who experience a mental health problem in community, acute and residential settings. As per the six domains of competence of the RANP, the post holder shall contribute to education, research and leadership roles as per service needs.Please ensure you download, save and read the Job Specification, Applicant Information Document & Application Form. All of these documents are located at the bottom of this advertisement. We strongly recommend that you read the Job Specification associated with post before completing your application form. For any technical issues with uploading the application form please contact [email protected]
Expected salary
Location
Cork
Job date
Sat, 28 Sep 2024 22:40:32 GMT
To help us track our recruitment effort, please indicate in your email/cover letter where (jobsnear.net) you saw this job posting.