Re: ANP School Nursing

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PROFILE LABEL: NURSE ADVANCED (SCHOOLS)

JOB STATEMENT:

1. Develops, plans and implements specialised programmes of health and education for school age children, e.g. sex education, health promotion.

2. Provides advice in specialist area to teachers and other field workers

3. Contributes to the development of policies in the specialist area

4. Undertakes research in specialist area

Factor Relevant Job Information JE Level

1. Communication & Relationship skills:

Provide and receive complex information; barriers to understanding; persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training skills are required/ present complex, sensitive information to large group

Communicates condition related information to children, parents & carers/ presentations to groups on sensitive issues; 4(a)-5(

2. Knowledge, Training & Experience:

Highly developed specialist knowledge across range of procedures underpinned by theory and practice

Professional knowledge acquired through degree/ diploma supplemented by post graduate diploma specialist training, experience, short courses plus further specialist training to master’s equivalent level; 7

3. Analytical & Judgement skills:

Complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation, comparison of a range of options

Skills for development of specialised programmes; 4

4. Planning & Organisational skills:

Plan and organise complex activities or programmes, requiring formulation, adjustment

Plans specialised health education programmes; co-ordinates multi-disciplinary group in specialist area; 3

5. Physical Skills:

Physical skills obtained through practice

Dexterity co-ordination for driving, immunisation; 2

6. Responsibility for Patient/client care:

Develop specialised programmes of care, care packages; provide highly specialised advice in relation to care

Develops, plans, implements specialised health and education programmes; advice to school age children, teachers, carers; 6(a)©

7. Responsibility for Policy/Service development:

Implement policies and proposes changes to practices, impact beyond own area

Contributes to development of specialist protocols with impact on other disciplines; 3

8. Responsibility for financial and physical resources:

Maintain stock control

Orders specialist supplies; 2©

9. Responsibility for Human Resources:

Clinical supervision; provide training in own discipline/ provide specialist training

Supervises School Nurses and other students, trainees; provides training to teachers, school staff/ provides specialist training to teachers, school nurses; 2(©-3©

10. Responsibility for Information Resources:

Record personally generated information

Updates client records; 1

11. Responsibility for Research & Development:

Regularly undertake R & D activity; clinical trials

Undertakes R & D activity, carries out specialist surveys, clinical trials; 2(a)(

12. Freedom to act:

Broad occupational policies

Accountable for own professional actions; lead specialist; 4

13. Physical effort:

Occasional light effort for several short periods

Some lifting e.g. training equipment; 1

14. Mental effort:

Frequent concentration, work pattern predictable

Concentration on reports, meetings, data analysis; 2(a)

15. Emotional effort:

Occasional/frequent distressing situations

Challenging behaviour from school pupils, teenage pregnancies; 2(a)-3(a)

16. Working conditions:

Occasional/frequent unpleasant; occasional highly unpleasant conditions

Verbal aggression; lice, body fluids; 2(a)-3(a) (

JE Score/Band JE Score 472-506 Band 7

From: reeta chaudhry

Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 6:30 PM

Subject: ANP School Nursing

hi

does anyone know of an Advance Nurse Practitioner working as a school nurse and if so would they be willing to share what their role is within school nursing

Reeta

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