Registered Specialist Nurses
Description
Registered specialist nurses provide specialised nursing care and plan ongoing treatment for the sick, injured and others in need of care, take responsibility for patients within their sphere of practice and assist medical doctors with their tasks, work with other healthcare professionals and within teams of healthcare workers. They advise on and teach nursing practice.
Tasks
- Delivers lectures, and other forms of formal training relating to nursing practice.
- Plans, manages, provides and evaluates nursing care services for patients, supervises the implementation of nursing care plans.
- Advises on nursing care, disease prevention, nutrition, etc. and liaises with hospital board/management on issues concerning nursing policy.
- Plans duty rotas and organises and directs the work and training of ward and theatre nursing staff.
- Gives consultations with patients and their families to explain a patient's condition and possible treatments.
- Consults with and provides guidance to other nurses and healthcare professionals within their specialism.
- Provides specialist care in their area of expertise, assesses patients, determines treatments and conducts a variety of medical procedures.
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
- 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