Registered Community Nurses
Description
Registered community nurses provide general nursing care for the sick, injured and others in need of care, and assist medical doctors with their tasks in settings outside of acute hospitals, such as clinics, health centres or visits to patients’ homes.
Tasks
- Plays an educational role for patients and families, helping to develop rehabilitation routines and advising on how to care for their condition in everyday life, disease prevention and nutrition.
- Manages own case load.
- Assists medical doctors in conducting examinations and other medical procedures.
- Administers drugs and medicines, applies surgical dressings and gives other forms of treatment.
- Provides basic care and monitors patients' general health such as blood pressure or body temperature.
- Plans, manages, provides and evaluates nursing care services within a community care setting.
Entry Requirements
Honours, Bachelor's degree
Skills
- Active Listening
- Speaking
- Reading Comprehension
- Critical Thinking
- Monitoring
- Writing
- Active Learning
- Learning Strategies
- Mathematics
- Science
Related Courses
- Access to HE Diploma (Medicine) - Level 3
- Access to Nursing Healthcare Professions - Level 3
- Access to Nursing Healthcare Professions - Level 3 - Part-time
- Allergy Awareness - Adult Social Care
- Allergy Awareness for Those Working in the Service Sector - Level 2
- Animal Nursing Assistant - Level 2 - Part-time
- Award in Personal Social Skills - 1-1 modules - Level 1
- Award in Personal Social Skills - Introduction to Wellbeing - Level 1
- Awareness of Mental Health Problems - Level 2
- Care Skills Essentials - Part-Time
- Common Health Conditions - Level 2
- Engagement to Health and Social Care-Childcare - Level 1
- Falls Prevention Awareness - Level 2
- Health Adult Nursing - T Level - Level 3
- Health and Social Care - Level 1
- Health and Social Care - Level 2
- Health Social Care Academy - Level 3
- Health Studies - Level 3
- Pre-Access to Science Nursing - Level 2 - Part-Time
- Preparing to Work in Adult Social Care - Level 2
- Principles of Care Planning - Level 2
- Principles of End of Life Care - Level 2
- Principles of the Mental Health Care Worker - Level 2
- Principles of the Prevention and Control of Infection in Health Care Settings - Level 2
- Principles of Working with and Supporting Individuals with Learning Disabilities - Level 2
- Senior Healthcare Support Worker - Apprenticeship - Level 3
- Understanding Autism - Level 2
- Understanding Common Illnesses Affecting Children - Level 2
- Understanding the Care and Management of Diabetes - Level 2
- Understanding the Safe Handling of Medication in Health and Social Care - Level 2