Community Heart Failure Specialist Nurse

Skilled Worker, A ratingPosted 2 weeks ago

Job Description

Participate in the identification and development of clinical protocols and strategies to enhance both the continuity and standard of specialist care in line with NICE and the ESC guidelines.
Assist in the delivery of an advanced specialist nursing service for people with a diagnosis of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.
Provide specialist nursing advice and support to patients, their families and other healthcare professionals following diagnosis and through treatment.
To provide timely evidence-based care to patients who are seen either in a clinic or home setting.
Ensure continuity of a high standard of evidence based nursing care, assessing health, health related and nursing needs of patients, and other carers by identifying and initiating appropriate treatments or signposting appropriately to other services.
Coordinate and attend weekly MDT meetings ensuring all active caseload patients are presented when required.
To manage a specified case load of patients, providing education, information, and support to patients and /or caregivers.
To improve patients understanding of their condition to enable them to make informed choices about their care and understand the rationale of investigations and treatments and ensure personalised
Regularly review those clinical notes of patients requiring service input, ensuring all assessments, diagnostic investigation and test results are up-to-date and in place.
Actively involve service users in providing feedback of their experiences of the current service and suggestions for improvements
Attend meetings and conferences as appropriate ensuring that you are fully conversant with current issues both within the Trust and within the specialist services locally and nationally.
To ensure patient journey is seamless as possible and ensureexcellent end of life care as appropriate.

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