Practice Nurse/Registered Nurse

Domain 1 – Professional Practice

• Demonstrated ability to provide leadership in nursing and primary health care principles, collaborate with the practice team and communicate effectively with external stakeholders including service providers and referrers.
  • A commitment to ongoing professional development.
• It is a requirement to participate in relevant CPD activities pursuant with national registration requirements.
• Tertiary qualifications recognised by the regulation authority (NMBA) as a registered nurse and experience in the primary health care sector.
• Demonstrated understanding of enrolled nurse (EN) supervision requirements and willingness to plan and co-ordinate care needs.

Domain 2 – Nursing Care

• • Ability to lead innovative, evidence-based practice.
• Demonstrated patient – focused, goal orientated approach to service provision.
• Sound knowledge of the general practice environment and its relationship to the broader health sector and local community health priorities.

Domain 3 – General Practice Environment

• Familiar with recall and reminder systems, data and clinical software systems and extensive experience and knowledge of the general practice setting including funding models and day-to-day operations or demonstrated capacity to acquire same.
• A commitment to and experience in continuing quality improvement and commitment to leading/maintaining accreditation standards.
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Domain 4 – Collaborative Practice

• Outstanding interpersonal, team building, negotiation and communication skills including written, verbal and IT/IM.
• Proven ability to work as a highly effective member of a team including as part of a diverse group of allied and healthcare professionals, and ability to provide clinical leadership and foster therapeutic relationships with medical and nurse students and GP registrars.

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