About this role
Main Duties:
- Planning, providing, and evaluating nursing care to patients on their individual needs
- Ensuring patients’ nursing needs such as physical, psychological and mental needs are attended to
- Providing individually tailored care to patients
- Assisting patients to perform their ordinary daily activities.
- Monitoring record and report changes in patient’s symptoms.
- Maintaining accurate reports on patients.
- Assessing the needs of patients and planning for nursing care.
- Participating in ward rounds with medical and nursing personnel.
- Assisting medical staff in the examination and treatment of patients
- Assisting in clinical investigative procedures.
- Orienting and supervising new staff and students.
- Ensuring proper coordination and smooth running of the ward activities.
- Ensuring good communication with patients and other departments for continuity of patient care
- Maintaining a safe and clean working environment by adhering to set standards and procedures
- Ensuring that patients discharged from the wards take with them the prescribed drugs and discharge summaries and follow up on any scheduled appointments.
- Participating in quality improvement initiatives within the department and providing reports as required
Required Qualifications for the Position
- Diploma in KRCHN/KRN/M
- BSc Nursing
- Computer Proficiency.
- Registered with NCK with a valid practicing license.
- Minimum 1 year post qualification experience in Nursing.
Skills
Communication