About the role
Salary: £47951.00 to £56863.00
To coordinate and supervise a shift, communicating effectively with members of a multidisciplinary team to deliver high quality, evidence-led care to patients. 2. To exercise clinical judgment and decision making about patient needs in terms of long term goals or plans. 3. To participate fully in the day to day organization and running of clinical trials including therecruitment, education and monitoring of patients entering a clinical trial and liaison as required with trial sponsors. 4. To assume personal accountability for nursing care delivered to a patient in accordance with the NMCcode of conduct. There is an expectation for post holders: o To promote a safe clinical environment for all patients, visitors and staff o To participate in Trust initiatives around infection control and care quality indicators o To assist with any local or trust initiatives to ensure the continuous improvement of thequality of services and safeguarding of high standards of care 5. To help foster a supportive working environment and maintain staff morale
To complete the first level assessment of patients with cancer and their families to gain an understanding of their physiological, psycho-social, spiritual and cultural needs and to develop a positive, realistic and supportive attitude to ensure that these needs are met. This will include: Counterchecking patients' vital signs, blood results, patient body surface area, chemotherapy prescription and consent before administration of treatment. Educating patients on their treatment such as indications and side effects.Ensuring necessary medication and follow up appointments are obtained.To plan, document, deliver and evaluate care plans from admission through to discharge / transfer discussing this with the patient, their family and multi-disciplinary teams and to alert theSister/Charge Nurse of any changes. To set goals for each of the identified nursing issues and encourage / teach other nursing staff to do the same. To help the patient achieve set goals through care planning. As a specialist cancer nurse, to assess the educational and informational needs of the patient and family. This includes producing and using appropriate materials to ensure optimum understanding of nursing care and the likely outcome.
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