Nurse at Fosad Consulting

Duties & Responsibilities

• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate the nursing care needs of a specific group of service users
• To supervise, mentor, and teach qualified ancillary staff. To coordinate the patient environments on a shift-by-shift basis and to coordinate care for a specified group of service users. Note that this is a guideline, not a comprehensive list of duties.

Assisting and Caring for Patients:

• Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers and patients’ families.
• Perform physical examinations of your patients at the start of every shift
• Administer prescribed drugs, injections, inhalation, intravenous, and other medications.
• Adhere to and observe the ten rights of medication administration
• Administer treatments such as physiotherapy, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy
• Assist in examining or treating medical, surgical, and dental patients
• Care for mentally ill patients
• Prepare patients for tests, therapy, or treatments.
• Prepare rooms, sterile instruments, equipment, and supplies, and ensure that stock of supplies is maintained
• Provide health care, first aid, immunizations, and assistance in locations such as schools, clinics, homes, and hospice centers.
• Treat patients en route to hospitals or at disaster site triage centers when required.
• Monitor all aspects of patient care, including diet and physical activity
• Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patients' responses and conditions.

Documenting and Recording Information:

• Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic / magnetic form.
• Maintain accurate detailed reports of patient’s history and treatments
• Monitor, record, and report symptoms and changes in patients’ conditions.
• All incidents or near misses must be reported in the appropriate form and to the shift leader / ward manager.

Communicating with Shift Leaders, ward Managers, Nursing Colleagues, or Subordinates:

• Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
• Consult and coordinate with multidisciplinary teams to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care plans.
• Inform consultants and medical officers regularly of changes in patients’ conditions.
• Interpret medical laboratory test results
• Explain testing procedures to patient
• Communicate information on patient care and related matters to the consultants, nurse in charge, or the ward manager.
• Accept professional responsibility for the safe custody, administration, and recording of medications in accordance with the hospital medication policy.
• Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time
• Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to enter data or process information
• Direct and supervise less-skilled nursing or health care personnel

Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge:

• Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Use the clinical problem-solving technique
• Follow institutional care policies and procedures
• Follow patient observation procedures
• Follow infectious material procedures
• Use nursing practices and evidence-based procedures
• Use counselling techniques
• Use sanitation practices in health care settings
• Use knowledge of nursing terminology
• Use knowledge of medical terminology
• Use personal care procedures.
• Engage in continuing nursing education and research activities related to nursing.

Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work:

• Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
• Developing personal yearly goals and objectives in keeping with your professional career advancement and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
• Participating and completing your professional competencies as required by the institution.
• To comply with the Gbagada Cardio-Renal hospital Fire precautions and procedures for evacuation and disaster plan policy
• To be appraised annually based on the Key Performance Indicators and yearly personal objectives.
• To positively promote The Gbagada Cardio-Renal hospital philosophy to caring, and contribute to achieving the Hospital’s objectives.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Must be a Professional Registered Nurse
• Graduate of a recognized School of Nursing
• 1-5 years of related work experience
• Fluent in English both in writing and communication
• Capable of performing multiple nursing tasks.
• ACLS & BCLS certification required
• Good interpersonal skills and result-oriented.
• Must have a helping and caring nature.