Staff Nurse (Band 6 ) Markus Ward
| Posting date: | 09 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £42,471.00 to £50,364.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £42471.00 - £50364.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 May 2024 |
| Location: | Chelsea, SW3 6JJ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9282-24-0502 |
Summary
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification 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 the Sister/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. Administer medicines as prescribed with adherence to Guidelines for Medicines Administration (NMC2002) and The Royal Marsden Medicines Management Policy. This will exclude administration by the intravenous route or through subcutaneous syringe driver until you have passed the written drug administration test and have been assessed as competent.