Registered Nurse and Midwife at Abuja Clinics

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Examining and monitoring pregnant women
• Assessing care requirements and writing care plans
• Undertaking antenatal care in hospitals, homes, 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 foetus 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
• Identifying high-risk pregnancies
• Assessing and planning treatment requirements
• Liaising daily with staff including other doctors, non-medical management staff and healthcare professionals
• Writing reports and maintaining records
• Promoting health education
• Managing a department
• Leading a medical team
• Teaching and supervising trainee doctors
• Solutions to help keep the organization safe

Minimum Qualifications

• Must have both Nursing and Midwife qualifications.
• He/she must have a current practicing license.

Requirements:

• Applicant must live in Abuja or be willing to relocate.
• Applicant must have at least 2 years of practicing experience as a Nurse and Midwife (Single Qualification wouldn’t be shortlisted)
• Applicant must have his/her current practicing license.
• Applicant must have both Nurse and Midwifery qualifications.
• Single qualifications will not be shortlisted.
• All practitioners must have at least 2 years of work experience.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to deal with emotionally charged situations
• Excellent teamworking skills
• Interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong observational skills
• An interest in the process of pregnancy and birth
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Ability to work and communicate effectively with people from different backgrounds
• Ability to follow instructions and procedures
• Caring and patient
• Must be efficient and organized
• Ability to pay attention to details.
• Dependable and flexible when necessary.