Head Nurse - ER / Urgent Care Experience

Job Description

• Ensure that the highest standard of evidence-based nursing care is delivered to all patients and their families.
• Act as patient advocate, ensuring privacy, dignity and confidentiality are met.
• Monitor and ensure patient satisfaction and be proactive in managing any issue that is identified.
• Act as a resource of specialist clinical knowledge and information for ICU staff and ensure that all nursing practices are meeting the required standards.
• Promote reflective practice and learning in order to ensure that nursing care is research based, appropriate and responsive to patient needs.
• Ensure that all provision of nursing care is documented on a timely basis and accurately reflects the patient experience.
• Work closely with the consultants for the achievement of effective patient management ensuring that individual consultant care protocols are followed.
• Ensure a high standard of infection control and the prevention of all avoidable healthcare associated infection in the department.
• Responsible for maintaining the safe custody of all medications including Narcotic, controlled and high alert drugs, ensuring that all related policies and procedures are strictly followed.
• Ensure that all policies, procedures, guidelines and work instructions that relate to the department are regularly reviewed and updated, as required.
• Participate in the setting of standards and agree clinical audit topics with the Director of nursing services, ensuring that the identified audits take place with any actions implemented.
• Organize any necessary admission, transfer in and out of the facilitates in consultation with medical staff.
• Discuss and promote innovations that will improve patient care with the administrator.