Overview
This position aims to provide holistic preventive, promotive, curative rehabilitative and palliative care services using the nursing process to meet the health needs of individual clients/patients.
Tasks Summary
- Assess patients and plan for their care as appropriate
- Guide and support staff in the department to meet patient care needs
- Make orders of drugs and other supplies as necessary
- Ensure patients access specialized procedures as prescribed by clinicians/doctors/other team members
- Document and handover patients during shift change
- Attend and facilitate Continuous Medical Education and clinical audits
- Guide and supervise support staff on departmental cleanliness in absence of the In-charge
- Arrange and submit weekly/monthly unit work schedule, plan daily duties and responsibilities for support staff and leave plans to ensure adequate coverage in consultation with the facility/departmental in charge
- Keep inventory of drugs and equipment in the department
- Ensure that all required observations, prescribed treatment and procedures are properly carried out and documented on patient’s charts.
- Provide quality triage services documenting vital signs, identify and initiate emergency care in collaboration with the clinicians
- Document clearly patient vital signs in the patient cards, books and ensure growth monitoring charts are fully filled.
- Counsel and educate patients on identified psychosocial-economic needs
- Adhere to the hospital health and safety policies, guidelines/protocols (e.g. the use of personal protective clothing/equipment)
- Provide standard care to patients at the triage, emergency and outpatient units
- Provide growth monitoring services including updating the MCH booklet as per guidelines
- Provide health promotion services in the department
- Provide emergency services in including referral of patients to other level of care
- In the Absence of EMR, ensure all MoH registers are clearly filled and support generation of monthly report
- Write reports on services in the department as necessary through Compiling and submitting weekly/monthly HIS reports.
- Rapid assessment and prioritization of patients based on the severity of their condition to ensure they receive timely and appropriate care.
Experience Requirements
Minimum of 1 year in clinical practice in a busy Hospital
Qualification Requirements
- Certificate or Diploma in Nursing/Midwifery/Community Health Nursing from a recognized medical training college
- Registered by the Nursing Council of Kenya
- Possess a valid practice license
- Basic skills in computer applications
