Parkinsons Nurse Specialist

To work as an advanced practitioner and deliver expert nursing service within the specialist area and team. To support the role of the service lead in developing and implementing a strategic development plan for nursing and nurse led services within the department. To provide autonomous nursing care to a caseload of patients/clients attending with Parkinsons Disease (PD) and similar Movement Disorders. To provide patients, their families, and anyone else involved in their care with up to date information, education and support to access appropriate care in all settings, and support agreed decision making, along regarding treatment choices. To minimise the negative impact of PD on patients lives by providing regular outpatient review, crisis intervention, stabilising conditions, preventing unnecessary emergency department attendances, hospital admissions and decrease length of in patients stay. To provide links across a range of health care providers and other agencies, to support co
ordinated care for people with PD, liaising between primary, intermediate, community and secondary care providers as well as liaison with the voluntary sector. To take a lead role in the development of evidence based clinical nursing practice in line with the current research guidelines.