Advanced Nurse Practitioner (Anp)/Candidate Anp For Rheumatology (Canp)

The Rheumatology ANP is a senior clinical role responsible for providing expert care to patients with Rheumatologic conditions in the acute hospital out patients department (referrals in-house also).Working autonomously within the MDT, the ANP delivers high quality care ,including assessment, diagnosis ,treatment ,and management of acute and chronic rheumatologic diseases .The role involves direct patient care ,leadership ,and contribution to service improvement and education

The advanced practice service is provided by nurses who practice at a higher level of purpose of the service is to provide safe, timely, evidenced based nurse-led care to patients at capability as independent, autonomous and expert advanced practitioners. The overall 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/Canp demonstrates advanced clinical and theoretical knowledge, critical thinking, clinical leadership and complex decision-making abilities.

The RANP/cANP practices in accordance with the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics for Registered Nurses and Registered Midwives (NMBI 2014), the Scope of Nursing and Midwifery Practice Framework (NMBI 2015), Advanced Practice (Nursing) Standards and Requirements (NMBI 2017), and the Values for Nurses and Midwives in Ireland (Department of Health 2016).

The RANP/cANP service 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/c ANP contributes to nursing research that shapes and advances nursing practice, education and health care policy at local, national and international levels

For Enquiries - Please contact ;

Allison Kennedy - kennedya@mater.ie

Directorate Nurse Manager

Acute Neurosciences Specialty and Rehabilitation Medicine Directorate