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Job role: Triage Nurse
Company name: NHS Jobs
Job Location: United Kingdom
Salary: £29,970.00 to £36,483.00 per year
Job Sector: Health Care
Job reference: C9301-25-0352
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About the Job:
Making appropriate decisions following comprehensive remote triage to ensure the safe management, and allocation visits where needed, in response to calls and referrals received by the community nursing service.
As part of this role you will also be required to:
Determine eligibility of patients referred to the service and collect additional information to support decision making. To transfer or redirect referrals to appropriate internal or external services as appropriate.
Liaise with patients; families; carers and other service providers to support clinical decision making to identify appropriate management of referrals and messages. This may include providing advice on self-management; transfer to other services or adding contacts for home visits or clinic appointments.
Liaise with nurse in charge of the appropriate nursing team to allocate urgent visits and to discuss potentially complex referrals.
To review all referrals and messages to the community nursing service, this will include an understanding of the following areas of care:
- Symptom management of deteriorating patients.
- Palliative and end of life care.
- Wound care.
- Bladder catheter and bowel care.
- Recognition of deteriorating patients and potentially life threatening conditions.
- Complex patients with co-morbidities.
(NB. This list is not extensive)
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