Nurse | Addis Ababa

JOB SUMMARY

Under general supervision by the MSIE Centre Coordinator, Centre Head, Centre Manager/OPD, the incumbent performs nursing duties ensuring efficient delivery and client/patient care in accordance with accepted standard medical practice and professional codes of conduct.

General

DUTIES/TASKS

• Provides nursing services, within defined scope of practice, to patients based on patient assessment and care planning procedures
• Performs nursing interventions such as taking vital signs, applying aseptic techniques including sterile dressing, ensuring infection control, monitoring nutritional intake and conducting specimen collection
• Administers medication and observes and documents therapeutic effects
• Provides pre-operative and post-operative personal and comfort care
• Monitors patients’ progress, evaluate effectiveness of nursing interventions and consults with appropriate members of healthcare team
• Provides reproductive health/family planning education to individuals and their families.

Safe Abortion Nurse Role

• Conducts safe abortion of pregnancies upon request and/or occasioned by medical, economic, or social reasons;
• Supplies to patients various forms of pregnancy termination procedures (pills, implants, injection, MVA procedures, drainage, etc.,) upon instructions by gynecologist;
• Carries out emergency treatment of pregnant women to stop symptoms such as bleeding, vomiting and nausea;
• Provides counselling on preventing unwanted pregnancies; correct use of pregnancy termination procedures;

Instrument Nurse Role:

• Prepares all surgical instruments, sets and medical supplies required for operation in accordance with accepted standards,
• Assists doctors intra-operatively (as a Scrub Nurse, Circulating Nurse, etc.) and makes the instruments ready for other operations as required.
• Ensures proper receipt, storage, safe keep, issuance and timely placement of orders of surgical instruments and medical supplies for theatre by pre-establishing re-order level and regular replenishment of enough stocks.

Operation Theatre/Scrub Nurse Role:

• Prepares patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing the patients’ operative areas, weighs, lifts, turns, and positions patients; shaves patients prior to operations;
• Assists in surgery by laying out instruments, setting up equipment, assisting surgical teams with gowns and gloves and passing instruments to surgeons
• Cleans and sterilizes the operating room and instruments.
• Supervises patients’ exercise routines,
• Sets up and provide leisure activities for patients,
• Accompanies patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
• Transports patients by wheelchair or stretcher for treatment or surgery
• Carries messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments
• Makes beds and maintains patients’ rooms

Antenatal Care Nurse Role:

• Takes blood pressure, temperature and pulse of pregnant women throughout their pregnancy as part of regular follow-up;
• Carries out laboratory tests of patients as part of evaluation of health conditions of pregnant women with unusual diagnosis and reports to gynaecologist
• Provides counselling to those pregnant women having physiological or social difficulties;
• Observes or monitors pregnant women’s status and documents patient care on charts;
• Administers first aid in emergency situations;
• Administers suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas
• Performs other procedures as directed by supervisor

Related Duties/Tasks

• Ensures the maintenance of high-level standards and applies universal precautions to prevent infection (e.g. HIV/AIDS) from blood or other body fluids of patients
• Accounts for all assets under his/her custody during regular stock taking and audit as and when required.
• Prepares and submits periodic reports as required.
• Maintain inventory of supplies; accounts for all assets under his/her custody during regular stock taking and audit as and when required.
• Prepares and submits periodic reports as required.
• Make an on-time report for the clinical incident happened in the center as per the guideline of MSIE.
• Performs related tasks as required

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Qualification Requirements

Education:

• BSc/Diploma in Nursing

Experience

• Two/Four Years’ experience as junior nurse

Skills, Attitudes and Attributes

• Good Communication and Interpersonal skills
• Conscious of Government, MSI and MSIE regulations
• Ability to make logical and timely decisions
• Counselling skill
• Awareness of concepts and strategies of quality care
• Pro-choice