Advanced Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner
2 months ago
The Advanced Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner contributes to the successful operation of the Palliative Care Consultancy Service (PCCS) at St Vincent's Health Australia. The role is responsible for assessing and reviewing patient and family care needs, symptom management, future care planning, and liaising with community palliative care services.
The Nurse Practitioner will demonstrate advanced level expertise in the provision of end-of-life care and palliative care management within the boundaries of the Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner (PCNP) scope of practice, legal and ethical parameters, and with a focus on delivering excellence and best practice.
The role will also contribute to service development and ensuring that the service provides high-quality, evidence-based clinical services that lead to improved care of patients and their families.
Key Responsibilities- Provide clinical leadership and demonstrate advanced nursing skills in the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of clinical services to patients with life-limiting illnesses and their carers.
- Develop and maintain own clinical development and competence, in line with best practice standards and NMBA regulations, particularly in the areas of advanced health assessment and diagnostic skills, advanced clinical decision making, pharmacological intervention and prescribing, radiology and pathology investigation requests and interpretation of results.
- Identify potential adverse outcomes and implement proactive strategies to achieve risk minimization.
- Actively engage with the community and public to inform interventions, referrals, and coordination of care.
- Actively promote the NP role and advanced nursing practice through key activities, such as presentations at local health services and with key stakeholders and partners, leading departmental meetings, establishing and contributing to local working groups and/or special interest groups.
- The NP is required to be a role model to all staff in areas of clinical practice.
- The NP will engage in the education of the palliative care team, clinical areas of SVHA, and the wider community about all aspects of palliative care.
- Lead and contribute to quality improvement and best practice activities that evaluate current practices in the clinical area.
- Support the development and participate in the development and data entry of key indicators for the PCCS, to enable evaluation and benchmarking of the PCCS against similar services.
- Present and publish at/in appropriate professional conferences and journals.
- Registered Nurse Practitioner with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and AHPRA registered.
- Demonstrated experience practicing at an advanced clinical practice level in the area of palliative care.
- Demonstrated ability to work with a multidisciplinary team and work both autonomously and collaboratively.
- Demonstrated ability to be self-motivated and innovative.
- Demonstrated practice of critical reflection.
- Demonstrated ability to make appropriate clinical decisions that consider cultural and diversity sensitivity and alignment to meet the goals and expectations of the patient and family.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to share knowledge with other clinicians across multiple disciplines/settings.
- Demonstrated interpersonal and leadership skills, including problem-solving, conflict resolution, negotiation, and teaching.
- Demonstrated ability to achieve change.
- Knowledge of workplace statutory and regulatory requirements and their impact on nursing care delivery.
- Demonstrated ability to implement evidence-based care to improve delivery of care and patient outcomes.
- Demonstrated ability to facilitate and coordinate nursing education and research projects.
- Demonstrated commitment to ongoing learning and professional development.
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