Nurse Practitioner - Care In The Right Setting

Mackay Hospital and Health Service is dedicated to delivering quality health care across the Mackay, Isaac, and Whitsunday regions.

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Role details

The Care in the Right Setting at the Mackay Base Hospital is seeking applications for a Nurse Practitioner to join their team on a temporary basis.

For information on how to apply and the mandatory requirements for this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.

Your opportunity

• The Nurse Practitioner is a Registered Nurse who demonstrates advanced and expanded clinical skills, knowledge and high-level capacity to translate these into contemporary evidenced based care for acute patients in HiTH or in a residential aged care environment. The Nurse Practitioner provides effective autonomous and accountable health care that incorporates application of high-level knowledge and skills at an advanced level of nursing practice, including assessment and management of clients to ensure safe and optimal care. This includes but is not limited to; the direct referral of clients to other health care professionals; prescribing medications; and ordering diagnostic investigations.
• It is the purpose of this role to provide expert knowledge and clinical skills, utilising a case management model, and coordinate the comprehensive care of patients for Hospital in the Home (HiTH), Geriatric Emergency Management Rehab-Hospital in the Home (GEMR-HiTH), Interim care and RaSS consumers.
• Reviews the patients with in the Residential Aged Care Facility (RACF) at GEDI, CNC or medical staff request, who would otherwise be sent to an Emergency Department.
• Reviews are supported by the provision of inpatient hospital standard acute care substitution within the RACF to those patients meeting appropriate criteria.

About the Team

Care in the Right Setting is an Integrated Model consisting of Hospital in the Home (HiTH), Geriatric Emergency Management Rehab-Hospital in the Home (GEMR-HiTH), Geriatric Emergency Department Intervention (GEDI), Residential Aged Care Support Service (RaSS), Interim care, and other Hospital Optimisation / Substitution services, with the expressed aim to provide medical, nursing, and allied health care to patients in an appropriate setting. Patients receive quality care that is tailored to their individual needs.

• The HiTH / GEMR-HiTH service is a hospital substitution service with the expressed aim to provide medical, nursing and allied health care to patients in their home environment. Without the service, eligible patients would otherwise be admitted to hospital for monitoring/treatment in a traditional inpatient bed.
• The RaSS model provides care in partnership with RACF's and GP's to improve patient choice of care setting and the quality and safety of care across the care continuum.

About our Hospital and Health Service

Mackay Hospital and Health Service has 6 hospitals, 2 multi-purpose health services and 4 community health centres that employ more than 3,500 staff. The district covers an area of approximately 90,000km2 and provides services to patients and their families in Bowen, Cannonvale, Clermont, Collinsville, Dysart, Glenden, Mackay, Middlemount, Moranbah, Proserpine and Sarina.

Some of our great benefits on offer

• Competitive wages, salary packaging and leave entitlements
• Flexible working arrangements
• A diverse work culture
• Career development
• Professional development opportunities
• Education opportunities, Study and Research
• Paid parental leave
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Discounted Private Health Insurance
• Fitness Passport