Great new job in for a Clinical Nurse Manager for an Addiction Service in Dublin City Centre -

NURSE MANAGER - RESIDENTIAL DETOX UNIT - DUBLIN CITY CENTRE

Essential requirements -

Registerd General or Psychiatric Nurse with current ABA Registration

Diploma or Degree in Addiction Studies

Minimum of 5 years Post Grad experience

Min of 3 years @ CNM level

Addiction/Detox experience essential

Living within commutable distance to Dublin City Centre

MUST BE LIVING IN IRELAND WITH RELEVANT IRISH EXPERIENCE

Job responsibilities -

Some of these are -

1. Participate in regular supervision, support and performance appraisal with Head of Specialist services and identify role related training needs.
2. Ensure that nurses demonstrate a satisfactory knowledge base for safe nursing practice and act to promote and maintain safe nursing practice.
3. Ensure the detox unit functions in accordance with relevant nursing legislation and that nurses fulfil the duty of care in the course of practice and intervene when policies or practices may impede care or contravene the law.
4. To ensure nurses on the detox unit are working within their scope of practice and competence as set by An Bord Altranais and that nurses consult with other health care professionals when service user problems fall outside the scope of nursing practice

 

 

If you meet this criteria and wish to apply, go to -

http://www.jackiebrownmedical.ie/jobs_ireland.php?url=jobs&page=2

Nursing jobs

on the up!

We have seen some recent activity in the Nursing sector - primarily the Private sector - we all know what is going on in the HSE.

There are 2 current Nursing jobs seeking RGN’s with a minimum of 2 years post Grad experience and full ABA Registration -

Staff Nurse for North Dublin Clinic -

Clinic - Urgent Care - North Dublin - 6 month Maternity Contract job - This nurse must travel between 2 North Dublin Clinics so a car owner is desirable.

This Clinic is seeking a Staff Nurse with Accident and Emergency experience and skills, primarily -

Plastering, Triage and Phlebotomy

 

Staff Nurse for Cosmetic Surgery Clinic - Dublin City Centre

This stunning Cosmetic Surgery Clinic is seeking an experienced Cosmetic Surgery Nurse with strong Sales and Commercial skills to join it’s team.

Theatre and Phlebotomy skills required

This is a permanent Nurse job

 

To apply for either of these Nurse jobs, go to -

http://www.jackiebrownmedical.ie/jobs_ireland.php?url=jobs&page=2

We look forward to hearing from you!

Night Nurse required for Wicklow

This Client is seeking a Registered General Nurse with a minimum of 2 years experience.

Care of the Elderly/Gerontology/Nursing Home experience would be beneficial, but must have a genuine interest and passion for this area of Nursing.

Ideally, living in the Carlow or West Wicklow area and a car owner.

Must be registered with ABA and have relevant Irish experience.

For more information or to apply to this role, go to -

http://www.jackiebrownmedical.ie/job-tags/nursing-jobs.htm

Agency Nursing used to be a great fallback for Irish Nurses.  Many chose to work solely as agency nurses because of the flexibility that gave.  You could choose your hours.  You were never guaranteed a shift but it was a good likelihood as long as you were not too picky about where you worked.

Mary Harney has announced that Crumlin Childrens Hospital is overstaffed.  As professor Crown so rightly points out, closing wards by slashing budgets needed to keep them staffed does not count as over-staffing.  Increasing patient numbers are now to be dealt with with utilising severely curtailed resources.  Some are being forced to look to the UK for treatment.

This is just one example.  The message is clear.  There are to be less nursing posts.  Is this a problem for nurses?

Just a few short years ago hospitals were clambering over themselves to source staff from India because we didn’t have enough Irish staff willing to work in Irish conditions.  Together with the Filipino nursing backbone of our country the addition of large numbers of Indian staff nurses added to the wonderful mix of cultures that make up a modern Irish Hospital.

Working conditions are arguably far worse now.  Nursing is still a passport to see the world.  Now with degrees under their belts, newly qualified nurses expect more.  But it is not so easy to expect more when you need to pay your bills and feed yourself.  If I was a new graduate I would be off to see the world, working as I went.

Are agency days over?  They probably should be.  Nursing agencies only grew so big because of bad staff management in the hospitals and hospices they served.  Some Hospitals were taking in 20+ agency staff a day (nurses and carers). The bill was massive.  The reason was that the Hospitals were not approved the funding for permanent job positions that would have cost far less.  Instead they had to pay through the nose for Agency Staff.  That sort of ridiculous situation needed to stop.  Yes there will probably always be a need for Nursing Agencies to provide temporary staff.  This is not ideal, since agency staff will not know the ward they are working on as well as permanent staff.  This leads to increased workload on the permanent staff.  If an agency nurse does know the ward as well as permanent staff then that must be an indicator of a case for another permanent staff member.

Final advice: If you are a nurse and not planning to leave the country get yourself into permanent employment as quickly as you can.  The current situation is not going to ease in the near future.