Our Nurse Practitioners provide advanced clinical expertise and leadership to enhance patient treatment and care planning in primary care. This is provided within an interdisciplinary model that best meets the patient requirements and is in line with the vision and values of the practice.
You will provide an empathetic and efficient first contact service for our patients and visitors, ensuring everyone is acknowledged in a professional, friendly, helpful and culturally appropriate manner, using discretion and diplomacy.
RESPONSIBLE TO:
Regional Manager
General Practitioners
FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH:
Internal
Regional Manager
Reception and administrative staff
Doctors
Nurses
Clinical Pharmacist
Pharmacists
Physiotherapists
Health Improvement Practitioner
Health Coach
Community Support Worker
External
Patients & Supporting Whanau
Visitors
Other Medical Professionals
Other relevant Stakeholders
Clinical Practice
Best practice for people within the Practice
Establishes and promotes effective models of care.
Clinical Leadership and Consultancy
Demonstrates effective clinical leadership and consultancy
Provides expert advice
Interprofessional health care
Conducts and/or participates in relevant research
Develops and influences health/socio-economic policies and nursing practice at a local, national and international level
Develops self and others
Practice Development/Quality activities
Works with nursing staff to continuously improve nursing practice and patient outcomes in all areas related to primary care.
Reflects and critiques the practice of self and others.
Actively manages risk
Health and Safety
Recognises individual responsibility for workplace Health & Safety under the Health and Safety Act 1992
Actively contributes to a therapeutic environment
Management Roles:
Non-Management roles:
Cultural Safety
Honouring Cultural Diversity
Actively demonstrates commitment to the Treaty of Waitangi principles.
The Nurse Practitioner will communicate with a variety of health professionals within and external to the practice, both nationally and internationally. They will be required to have excellent communication and negotiation skills so that they can ensure appropriate and timely clinical care can be provided in a cohesive manner from a range of services across continuum of care.
The Nurse Practitioner will be required to interact on a frequent basis with a range of practice staff members including the following groups:
Externally there will be frequent contact with:
Situations may often call for tact, diplomacy and will require information to be handled in a discreet and sensitive manner.
In conflict situations will be required to exercise sound judgement, negotiation, and persuasiveness skills, toward facilitating a workable outcome.
The Nurse Practitioner will be regularly challenged by a wide range of complex and unpredictable clinical problems and issues related to primary care patient care within the secondary settings. There will be demands to meet deadlines and maintain accuracy and quality of information. There will be a requirement to be able to prioritise issues and negotiate time frames, while still providing a quality customer service. The range of problems will be diverse and require solutions customised to meet the circumstances of the patient/family.
The Nurse Practitioner will be required to initiate and develop innovative approaches to problem solving and utilise the skills of other disciplines and team members to co-ordinate and resolve problems. They will need to negotiate with and co-ordinate a variety of staff at all levels across the continuum of care and will frequently need to develop individual solutions for each issue and problem.
They are empowered to make decisions or recommendations relating to patient management. Discretion is required to be exercised in releasing confidential information to the appropriate parties.
The Nurse Practitioner reports operationally to the General Practitioners.
They will be required to maintain a regional and national level of input into the direction of the speciality and improvements in care/processes with respect to cost, quality and outcome measures. This will include recommendations for enhancing professional practice across the specialist group and consider national and international professional trends.
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