NEPTS Registered Nurse Wagga Wagga
NEPTS Registered Nurse Wagga Wagga
The Casual NEPTS Ground RN ensures patients remain clinically safe during their occasion of care from aircraft to facility
Classifications
- Healthcare & Medicine
- Nurse / Midwife
- Casual
Key points
- Casual Role
- Based in Wagga Wagga
- Iconic Organisation
Description
The Royal Flying Doctor Service South Eastern Section (RFDSSE) Non-Emergency Patient Transport Service Ground Registered Nurse (NEPTS Ground RN) is an experienced Registered Nurse employed by the RFDSSE to care for patients accessing the NEPTS for transfer from aircraft to facility. They will operate only on the road transport environment.
The NEPTS Ground Registered Nurse is responsible for providing care to patients within both the RFDSSE guidelines and guidelines outlined in NEPTS contractual agreements. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring patients remain clinically safe during their occasion of care, remaining ‘between the flags’; providing ongoing communication with the patient and their medical escort, as well as various external stakeholders; identifying clinical deterioration and escalating clinical concerns in an appropriate and timely fashion.
Role Selection Criteria
Essential:
- Relevant registration with AHPRA
- Current Basic Life Support and Advanced Life Support qualifications
- Minimum 3 years acute post graduate nursing experience, or demonstrated skill level;
- 1 year ICU/ ED experience;
- NSW Drivers Licence;
- Eligible for Aviation Security ID Card (ASIC)
- Any other relevant acute care or emergency skills;
- DETECT and DETECT junior;
- Previous triage experience; or
- Post registration qualifications in a relevant acute area or First Line Emergency Care Course qualifications.
Our Values of Reliability, Care, Trust and Safety shape the way we work as individuals, as team members and with the communities we serve.
The RFDS (South Eastern Section) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.
Any published closing dates are estimated, the RFDSSE aim to fill vacancies as quickly as possible. This means that we will close advert as soon as we have found the right candidate and this may be before the published closing date. We would therefore advise interested applicants to submit an application as early as possible.
