Candidate/Registered Advance Nurse Practitioner (cANP or RANP) Rheumatology
* Harold's Cross, Dublin, Ireland
* Indefinite Duration, Permanent
Who We Are
In operation since 1879, Our Lady’s Hospice & Care Services is a 200-bed facility providing specialist care for people with a wide range of needs from rehabilitation to end-of-life care in Harold’s Cross Hospice, Blackrock Hospice and Wicklow Hospice.Our Lady’s Hospice & Care Services is acknowledged as a centre of excellence in all its departments and we actively encourage and promote continual learning and development in a constantly changing environment. Our organisation is an equal opportun
In operation since 1879, Our Lady’s Hospice & Care Services is a 200-bed facility providing specialist care for people with a wide range of needs from rehabilitation to end-of-life care in Harold’s Cross Hospice, Blackrock Hospice and Wicklow Hospice.Our Lady’s Hospice & Care Services is acknowledged as a centre of excellence in all its departments and we actively encourage and promote continual learning and development in a constantly changing environment. Our organisation is an equal opportun Show more
Description
Candidate/Registered Advance Nurse Practitioner (cANP or RANP) Rheumatology
* 1.0WTE (37.5 hours)
* Indefinite Duration
* H.S.E. funded
* Based in the Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Disease Unit (RMDU) Harold’s Cross
The ANP Rheumatology will maintains a record of clinical supervision.
The advanced practice service is provided by nurses who practice at a higher level of capability as independent, autonomous and expert advanced practitioners. The overall purpose of the service is to provide safe, timely, evidenced based nurse-led care to patients at an advanced nursing level. This involves undertaking and documenting complete episodes of patient care, including comprehensively assessing, diagnosing, planning, treating and discharging patients in accordance with collaboratively agreed local policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines (PPPG’s) and/or SLA’s/ memoranda of understanding (MOU).
The ANP Rheumatology demonstrates advanced clinical and theoretical knowledge, critical thinking, clinical leadership and complex decision-making abilities.
The ANP Rheumatology practices in accordance with the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics for Registered Nurses and Registered Midwives (NMBI 2025), the Scope of Nursing and Midwifery Practice Framework (NMBI 2015), Advanced Practice (Nursing) Standards and Requirements (NMBI 2017), and the Values for Nurses and Midwives in Ireland (Department of Health 2016).
The ANP Rheumatology provides clinical leadership and professional scholarship in the delivery of optimal nursing services and informs the development of evidence-based health policy at local, regional and national levels.
The ANP Rheumatology contributes to nursing research shaping and advancing nursing practice, education and health care policy at local, national and international levels.
The ANP Rheumatology practices according to a professional practice model. This model is Orem’s Self Care Model emphasising a caring therapeutic relationship between the ANP and their patients, recognising ANP work in partnership with their multidisciplinary colleagues. Orem’s self-care model of nursing emphasises the person as a whole with unique capabilities to undertake self-care and recognises the experienced nurses’ ability to tailor the activities of doing, guiding, providing and teaching to suit therapeutic self-care demands of individuals and their families. The holistic model provides a framework for practice most suitable to the long-term nurse-patient relationship reflecting the nature of caring for patients with chronic rheumatic health care needs.
To reduce the overall burden of chronic inflammatory and non-inflammatory RMDS.
Qualifications:
* Be a registered nurse on the live Register of Nurses kept by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI)
* Be on the active Register in the Division of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland register for which the application is being made or be eligible to register in the Division of nursing And Midwifery Board of Ireland register for which the application is being made.
* Be a registered nurse prescriber on the NMBI live register and prescribe in accordance with a current collaborative practice agreement for medicinal product prescribing
* Possess a Masters Degree in Nursing (or higher) (Advanced Practice Pathway). The post-graduation programme must be in an area of nursing or in area highly relevant to the area of specialist practice, Rheumatology (educational preparation must include a substantial clinical modular component pertaining to the relevant area of specialist practice)
OR
* Be currently undertaking a Masters Degree in Nursing (advanced Practice Pathway) or be eligible to register to undertake additional level 9 specific modules of a Masters Degree in Nursing (Advanced Practice Pathway) within an agreed timeframe. The post-graduation programme must be in an area of Nursing or an area highly relevant to the area of specialist practice. Educational preparation must include a substantial clinical modular component pertaining to the relevant area of specific practice.
Experience:
* Candidates must possess the requisite knowledge and ability including a high standard of suitability and clinical, professional and administrative capacity to properly discharge the functions of the role.
* Have the competence to exercise higher levels of judgement, discretion and decision-making in the clinical area above that expected of the nurse working at primary practice level
* Demonstrate competencies relevant to context of practice
* Provide evidence of continued professional development
* Have the clinical, managerial and administrative capacity to properly discharge the functions of the role
Informal enquiries for this recruitment panel advertisement are most welcome. Please contact Stefan Weimer | Assistant Director of Nursing | (01)4912589 | sweimer@olh.ie
A detailed Job Description & Person Specification can be downloaded below or by contacting the HR Department | hr@olh.ie | (01) 491 2594.
Latest date for receipt of applications is 12 PM on 16th of May 2025.
Our Lady’s Hospice & Care Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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