Nursing Officer at Lagos Executive Cardiovascular Clinic

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

Duties:

• Perform patient assessment using appropriate, problem-focused, and age-specific assessment techniques.
• Analyze the assessment data, derive nursing interventions, set priorities according to patients needs, formulate a plan of care, implement and evaluate the outcome.
• Document all relevant data in the electronic medical record according to clinic standards.
• Treat patients and families with care and respect while maintaining patient privacy and confidentiality.
• Involve the patient, significant others, and health care providers in the plan of care when appropriate.
• Collaborate with other disciplines through multidisciplinary meetings and care conferences to facilitate patient care and operations.
• Attends to Home care visits when scheduled on-call shift
• Demonstrate the required assessment and therapeutic skills.
• Implement and monitor infection control measures.
• Provide basic life support when needed.
• Administer medications, monitor desirable and undesirable effects and intervene appropriately.§  Manage patients with infectious diseases when applicable.
• Manage pediatric patients with infectious diseases when applicable.