- Decide on and carry out treatment, which may include the prescribing of medicines, or referring patients to an appropriate specialist.
- Assess individuals, families and populations holistically using a range of different methods, some of which may not be usually exercised by nurses such as physical assessment and history taking, ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests or advanced health needs assessments.
- Ensure the provision of continuity of care.
- Use their expert knowledge and clinical judgement to decide upon & request further investigations, including DXA and laboratory tests, referrals, diagnoses and treatment decisions, including benefits of introducing biologics or targeted synthetic agents and balancing potential cardiovascular risks.
- Identifying patients who are potentially eligible for biologics or targeted synthetic agents; ensuring all patients are fully informed of their on-going care.
- Assess and evaluate, with patients and /or carers, the effectiveness of the treatment and care provided and make changes as needed.
- Work autonomously within a wider health care team and as a lone practitioner. Remaining accountable for own acts or omissions.
- Work across professional, organisational and system boundaries and proactively develop and sustain new partnerships and networks to influence and improve health, outcomes and healthcare delivery systems. Working for our organisation
Advanced Nurse Practitioner for High Cost Drugs - Oxford, United Kingdom - Oxford University Hospitals
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Job overview
This post has been created in response to NICE approved use of High Cost Drugs for moderate rheumatoid arthritis and for high risk fractures. This is a newly introduced role within Rheumatology and Fracture Prevention Nursing teams to help manage patients who require long term therapies for their condition. The post holder will be working in a small team of specialist nurses, pharmacists, consultants and administrative staff. As the demand grows, with the eligible patients being offered high cost drug treatment, the team will expand accordingly.
Main duties of the jobAdvanced practitioners will be able to;
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the .