Specialty Clinical Nurse, Patient at Risk

1 week ago


Palmerston North, New Zealand Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand Te Pae Hauora o Ruahine o Tararua MidCentral Full time

**Our Organisation**

Te Pae Hauora o Ruahine o Tararua MidCentral (MidCentral) is part of Te Whatu Ora, Health New Zealand and provides healthcare services to over 180,000 people across the Manawatū, Horowhenua and Tararua regions. With a large hospital campus in Palmerston North, it also provides key health care and support services to neighbouring communities.

**The Opportunity**

The Patient at Risk Specialty Clinical Nurse is an advanced nursing practice role with specialist knowledge in identification, assessment, care co-ordination and support with specific reference to deteriorating or patients at risk. The role is responsible to provide clinical expertise and leadership, promoting clinical excellence and ensuring best practice standards are maintained.

The Patient at Risk Specialty Clinical Nurse will work across the continuum of care, enhancing the point of care for the patient at risk in the ward setting, ensuring care is coordinated, comprehensive and informed by advanced specialist knowledge. The Patient at Risk Clinical Specialty Nurse has expert generic nursing knowledge across the age spectrum with a developed expertise in the assessment and recognition of the deteriorating patient. This nursing knowledge will enable the ongoing expert nursing assessment of patients, early detection of deterioration and evaluation of care, and the coordination of resources to enable early, appropriate, and safe intervention.

The Patient at Risk Specialty Clinical Nurse is a key leadership role and as such will provide leadership and coordination to the nursing teams by ensuring nursing practice is well organised, resourced appropriately, evidence based and professional. The role will be responsible for contributing to the delivery of nursing and other strategic priorities for Te Whatu Ora Midcentral the delivery of some multidisciplinary education sessions and leadership to quality initiatives.

**About you**

To be considered you will need to have:

- Registered Nurses with a current annual practising certificate
- Minimum of 5 years clinical experience in critical care services
- Post Graduate qualification or working towards one
- with a minimum of completion of a advanced assessment paper and pathophysiology paper.
- Working towards qualification for Registered Nurse Prescribing
- PDRP Expert Nurse or working towards
- CORE Advanced required

**Come and join us**

Employing over 2500 people, MidCentral offers a supportive work environment that accepts and values all employees. We actively seek Māori kaimahi into our workforce and provide an environment which delivers our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion.

MidCentral region offers an excellent lifestyle for families with scenic spots for hiking and mountain-biking, great schools and tertiary institutions. With the mountains, city and sea at your doorstep, you'll get to taste the best of both worlds - the perfect blend of rural and city living.



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