Advanced Nurse Practitioner
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Responsible for managing and coordinating care for patients on the ward. Duties include clerking and discharging patients, completing advanced nursing assessments, formulation of care plans, completing nurse led ward rounds and assisting and supporting on the weekly doctor ward rounds. Prescribe care and treatment for patients, and advise and support the care team on the ward, whilst working as part of an MDT on a daily basis to ensure patients receive the highest standard of care, with the aim of promoting early, safe and effective discharge in line with the 6 goals of urgent care and care closer to home.
Liaise with consultants in other hospitals to step up the care of patients that cannot be safely managed on the ward. Managing the beds alongside the DLNs to ensure capacity is appropriately achieved and to ensure patients coming onto the ward meet the appropriate criteria to be supported safely.
Advanced Nurse Practitioner - Tyleri Nurse Led Ward
(2024-01)
Responsible for managing and coordinating care for patients on the ward. Duties include clerking and discharging patients, completing advanced nursing assessments, formulation of care plans, completing nurse led ward rounds and assisting and supporting on the weekly doctor ward rounds. Prescribe care and treatment for patients, and advise and support the care team on the ward, whilst working as part of an MDT on a daily basis to ensure patients receive the highest standard of care, with the aim of promoting early, safe and effective discharge in line with the 6 goals of urgent care and care closer to home.
Liaise with consultants in other hospitals to step up the care of patients that cannot be safely managed on the ward. Managing the beds alongside the DLNs to ensure capacity is appropriately achieved and to ensure patients coming onto the ward meet the appropriate criteria to be supported safely.
Nurse Practitioner - ABUHB Urgent Primary Care
(2023-06 - 2024-01)
Assessment and treatment of patients that present to the department that require prompt treatment and decisions around their care. Patient presentations include those with abdominal pain, UTI, PE, DVT, chest infection, worsening heart failure, gout, back pain, earache, sore throats etc. Onward referral of patients is sometimes necessary for them to receive the appropriate care eg. to surgeons.
Triage is a significant part of the role within urgent primary care and daily involvement in contacting patients that have been referred via the 111 service, to determine if the patient needs to be seen by the service and if not, where is the most appropriate place for them to be seen. This role is very challenging as clinical decisions are made based on assessment over the telephone. Key in taking the lead in developing another arm to the service, to enable nurse practitioners to complete home visits.
This has involved re-developing the standard operating procedure in order for the service to move forward. Service evaluation and poster presentation of findings.
Advanced Nurse Practitioner - Glan Cynon Surgery
(2023-03 - 2023-06)
Assessing and treating patients that present to the service via the 111 route. Onward referral to other specialisms if patients are too sick to be treated in the department. Telephone triage of patients daily.
Overseeing the running of the step closer to home unit whilst it was functioning. Duties included clerking patients on their arrival, preparing discharge notifications and assessing and treating patients if they become unwell or referring on to someone more qualified to deal with the patients.
Nurse Practitioner Urgent Care - ABUHB Urgent Care
(2021-04 - 2023-03)
Assessment and treatment of patients that present to the service. Onward referral to other specialisms. Telephone triage of patients daily.
Rapid response Nurse - CRT Caerphilly
(2017-04 - 2021-04)
Delivering a hospital at home service working with patients over the age of 18 who are deemed to have frailty and who have complex issues who have become acutely unwell. Having masters level module in clinical assessment and diagnosis enabled performing advanced clinical assessments on patients with chronic, minor and acute illnesses, identifying possible differential diagnosis. Working autonomously, prepared clinical management care plans for patients, monitored implementation of these and evaluated them on an ongoing basis. Responsible for discharging patients from the service where appropriate. Involved in participating in daily ward rounds with consultants, medics, pharmacists and other nursing colleagues, presenting patient assessments to discuss and agree treatment plans.
Experience of triaging calls within the service whilst monitoring portal and involved in leading and mentoring band 5 nurses in everyday nursing care. Delegation played a large part of this role whilst managing the portal, ensuring individuals were allocated tasks suitable to their abilities, whilst ensuring seamless patient care was delivered in a timely manner. Clinically involved in administering Intraven
Health Visitor - ABUHB
(2014-01 - 2017-04)
Responsible for managing a large caseload of 350 children and their families. This required prioritising and managing caseload effectively to ensure families received timely care to the highest possible standard. Responsible for delegating tasks to community nursery nurses and ensuring they were carrying out tasks effectively.
Working as a SCPHN required regularly participating in multi agency child protection conferences and core groups where managing challenging and emotive situations was essential, where it was essential to be able to deal with stress whilst remaining calm and non judgemental. Encountered situations that involved adult safeguarding and required referral to the adult safeguarding team to protect the patient involved.
Team Leader - Liberty Care
(2013-01 - 2014-01)
Setting up and managing a home for adults with severe learning disabilities and behaviours that challenge. Role involved budget management, employing and training staff, developing and delivering the induction programme, completing supervision, appraisal and post incident debrief to the team. Role also involved working at multi agency level, developing care plans for the service users to meet their needs and working with families of the service users.
Student Health Visitor - Cardiff University ABUHB
(2012-01 - 2013-01)
Student health visitor in the generic health visiting service providing care and support to families within allocated large caseload. Role involved completing birth visits and development reviews in a timely manner and referring children on where there was evidence of developmental delay. Ran own well baby clinic on a weekly basis and administered immunizations as part of the child health programme.
Large part of role was involved in child protection which encompassed attending multi agency child protection meetings and presenting reports on how the child was developing within the dynamics of the family. Making child protection referrals as necessary and required utilising enhanced communication skills to inform families of this in an open and transparent manner.
Community Staff Nurse - ABUHB - Bargoed and surrounding areas
(2010-01 - 2012-01)
Community staff nurse providing care, support and treatments to patients in their own home such as administering insulin and warfarin, completing wound care and dressings, assisting palliative patients at home in their last days of life, completing catheter changes and patient education on health and wellbeing.
Community Staff Nurse - North Glamorgan NHS Trust
(2010-01 - 2010-12)
Community staff nurse providing care, support and treatments to patients in their own home such as administering insulin and warfarin, completing wound care and dressings, assisting palliative patients at home in their last days of life, completing catheter changes and patient education on health and wellbeing.
Certificate - Urgent Care - University of Lancashire (2022)
Protected Title - Advanced Nurse Practitioner - ABUHB (2022)
Certification - Independent Prescribing (V300) - University of South Wales (2022)
Module - Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis Level 7 - University of South Wales (2018)
MSc - Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Health Visiting) - Cardiff University (2016)
Certification - Nurse Prescribing (V100) - Cardiff University (2014)
Certification - Autistic Spectrum Disorder - University of South Wales (2013)
Bachelor - Nursing (Adult) - University of South Wales (2010)
General Education - English Language, English Literature, Mathematics, Sociology, History, and Biology - Lewis Girls Comprehensive School (1982 - 1987)
