Kenya Registered Community Health Nurse Job Vacancy in Kwale County 2015
Job Vacancy: Kenya Registered Community Health Nurse
Job Station: Kwale County
Job Purpose: Promotes and restores patients’ health by completing the nursing process; collaborating with the clinician and multidisciplinary team members; providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families and supervising assigned team members.
Job Duties:
- Identifies patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients
- Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
- Promotes patient’s independence by establishing patient care goals; teaching patient, friends, and family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills; answering questions.
- Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments; following hospital and nursing division’s philosophies and standards of care set by the nursing council and other medical governing agency regulations.
- Resolves patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.
- Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations; calling for assistance from other health care support personnel.
- Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.
- Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
- Maintains continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.
- Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
- Ensures operation of equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; following manufacturer’s instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; calling for repairs; maintaining equipment inventories; evaluating new equipment and techniques.
- Maintains nursing supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed supplies; placing and expediting orders for supplies; verifying receipt of supplies; using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results.
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
- Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information; responding to requests; building rapport; participating in team problem-solving methods.
- Carry out all other services in relation to patient care and treatment as permitted by the kenya Nursing council
Other Duties
- Other duties as may be assigned by the team leader as long as they are within his/her competence
Skills / Qualifications:
- Clinical Skills,
- Bedside Manner,
- Infection Control,
- Nursing Skills,
- Administering Medication,
- Medical Teamwork,
- Multi-tasking,
- Listening,
- Verbal Communication,
- Health Promotion and Maintenance
If you are up to the challenge, meet the above minimum qualifications and experience send your Application letter along with your Current CV as One Word Document, and a daytime telephone contact to;
The Human Resource Manager
P.O Box 46279-00100
Nairobi.
P.O Box 46279-00100
Nairobi.
OR eMail hr.user14@gmail.com
Deadline: 7th March 2015 at 5:00pm