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The Acute Pain Nurse is a key member of the hospitals multidisciplinary pain management team, responsible for ensuring the safe, effective, and evidence-based management of patients experiencing acute pain following surgery/trauma.
Job Responsibility:
Conducts thorough pain assessments
Monitors analgesic effectiveness
Provides expert guidance on the use of opioids, regional analgesia, and multimodal pain relief techniques
Delivering education and support to clinical teams
Promoting best practices in pain management
Contributing to the development and implementation of hospital-wide pain protocols and policies
Ensuring that all patients receive timely, compassionate, and person-centered pain care
Requirements:
1st level registered nurse
Educated to diploma level or working towards Diploma
Evidence of relevant post registration education and development
998 or other recognised teaching course
Significant experience at band 5 in speciality
Experience and knowledge in pre & post-operative pain management
Current healthcare issues
Quality benchmarking
Quality, audit and its application
Clinical governance
Healthcare commission standards for better health
Risk management and NHSLA
Health and safety
Confidentiality
Statutory and professional requirements
NHS policy & procedure
Effective interpersonal/communication
Effective decision-making
Effective influencing
Effective team working
Ability to monitor, maintain and improve service delivery
Effective change management
IT skills and ability to utilise website resources
Nice to have:
Nurse prescribing qualification
Recognised leadership development program attendance