Jobs at KAAF Medical Laboratory and Maternity Centre

Job Duties

• Examining and monitoring pregnant women
• Assessing care requirements/writing care plans
• Undertaking antenatal care in hospitals  and GP practices
• Carrying out screening tests
• Providing information, emotional support and reassurance to women and their partners
• Taking patient samples, pulses, temperatures and blood pressures
• Caring for and assisting women in labour
• Monitoring and administering medication, injections and intravenous infusions during labour
• Monitoring the fetus during labour
• Advising about and supporting parents in the daily care of their newborn babies
• Helping parents to cope with miscarriage, termination, stillbirth and neonatal death
• Writing records
• Tutoring student midwives

Qualifications and training required

• Candidate must possess a first degree in B.Sc Nursing from a recognized University
• 2-3 years' experience
• Licensed and certified with the Midwives Council of Nigeria (NWCN)

Key skills for Midwives/Nurse:

• Excellent team working skills
• Interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong observational skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Patient care
• Drug therapy