Head, Nurse at Skyhigh Medical Centre

Job Description

• Ensure the highest standard of evidence-based nursing care is delivered to all patients and their families.
• Monitor and ensure patient satisfaction and be proactive in managing any issue that is identified.
• Ensure that all nursing practices are meeting the required standards.
• Discuss and promote innovations that will improve patient care
• Ensure that all policies, procedures, guidelines and work instructions that relate to the patient management regularly reviewed and updated, as required.
• Investigate incidents, accidents, concerns, non-conformities and complaints pertaining to the wards and team, ensuring that statements are collected within agreed deadlines and in accordance with hospital policies
• Exercise fair and firm leadership, establishing and maintaining high morale on the wards.
• Produce staff duty roasters to meet the activity of the wards/OPD, ensuring that staffing levels appropriately reflect case mix and dependency levels.
• Participate in selection and recruitment process, ensuring that all new staff receive an appropriate and completed induction to the hospital and wards that is documented.
• Ensure the wards comply with all health and safety requirements and that appropriate policies and procedures are in place.
• Ensure that all non-compliances are reported and appropriate actions taken as required.
• Administration of injections
• Administration of oral drugs
• Counseling of patients
• Follow up on all discharged or referred patients
• Making wards environment conducive for patient and relatives
• Monitoring of patient and giving health education to them
• Monitoring of labour cases
• Looking after patient ‘s health after deliveries
• Reporting of patient’ situational pulse to doctors
• Setting of intravenous infusion (when the needs arises)
• Monitoring of the food to be given to the patient
• Management of Nursing staff
• Calling or following up ANC patient when the need arises
• Ensuring functionality of the ward and associated facilities daily.
• Receiving complaints and solve problems of all patients
• Relationship management of in-patients & their relatives
• Ensuring documentation of post & delivery operative note
• Any other assignment from higher authority.

Requirements

• Candidates preferably should be double qualified RN / RM Nurse
• 3 - 5 years work experience.
• Resident in Lagos