Registered Nurse at Caring Habitat

Position Overview:

• We seek a compassionate and detail-oriented Nurse, who will be tasked with assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care plans in collaboration with a multidisciplinary healthcare team.

Key Responsibilities:

Patient Assessment and Care

• Effective use of the admission and discharge protocol on the EMR
• Monitor patients’ conditions and assess their needs, provide optimal care and advice.
• Observe and interpret symptoms as well as communicating them to physician.
• Creating individual care plan for patients in collaboration with other team members e.g. medical officers, occupational therapist, physiotherapist, speech therapist, dietitian, etc.
• Accompany In-patient’s on follow up appointment.

Clinical Procedures

• Perform routine baseline vital signs check e.g. Temperature, Pulse, Respiration, Blood pressure, SPO2, Fasting blood sugar (FBS) on resumption and also at the close of shift.

Wound care.

• Medication administration as prescribed by physician including; oral, intravenous, intramuscular, suppository, etc.
• Meal; Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) and assisted feed for patient with dysphagia.

Tracheostomy care.

• Resuscitation; suctioning, administering oxygen and nebulization as prescribed by physician.
• Cannulation: Phlebotomy, monitoring intravenous fluid. Supporting medical officers to collect blood, and other specimen from patient.

Monitoring Intake and Output chart.

• Routine Nurses ward round, Medical Officer, and or the Clinical Director as applicable.
• Handover and taking over of patients at bed side.

Report writing

Safety and Hygiene

• Maintain excellent hygiene and safety (decontaminating equipment, sanitizing surfaces, autoclave dressing packs and drums for sterile/aseptic procedures.
• Case Incidence; patient’s falls, medication errors, and or any other adverse events.
• “And other duties as assigned by my supervisor, doctor, and or medical consultants”.

Professional Development

• Attend educational workshops, trainings (internal and external) and conferences to expand knowledge and capabilities.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors of Nursing in Nursing services or a related field
• Minimum of two (2) years of experience in Nursing services.
• Self-motivated, goal-oriented and able to work independently