Registered Advanced Nurse Practitioner Minor Injuries

1.5 Registered Advanced Nurse Practitioner (RANP) (Emergency) Minor Injuries.

Salary: €66,454 to €82,008

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, which includes comprehensively assessing, diagnosing, planning, treating and discharging patients in accordance with collaboratively agreed local policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines and/or service level agreements/ memoranda of understanding.

The RANP (Emergency) Minor Injuries demonstrates advanced clinical and theoretical knowledge, critical thinking, clinical leadership and complex decision-making abilities.

The RANP (Emergency) Minor Injuriespractices in accordance with the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics for Registered Nurses and Registered Midwives (NMBI 2021), the Scope of Nursing and Midwifery Practice Framework (NMBI 2015), Advanced Practice (Nursing) Standards and Requirements (NMBI 2017), and the Values for Nurses, Midwives in Ireland (Department of Health 2016), the Practice Standards and Guidelines for Nurses and Midwives with Prescriptive Authority 4th Edition (2019) Government of Ireland (2019) Radiological Protection Act S.I. No 30/2019

The RANP (Emergency) Minor Injuriesservice 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 RANP (Emergency) Minor Injuries contributes to nursing research that shapes and advances nursing practice, education and health care policy at local, national and international levels.