Nurse at City Eye Hospital

Ref: CEH/HR/REC/008/2023

Responsibilities

• Taking Visual Acuity and Intraocular Pressures of patients while entering accurate recordings of the same in the patient’s file.
• Taking vital signs and recording findings into the patient’s files.
• Assisting clinicians and doctors during patient examination, screening and eye procedures.
• Scrubbing and circulating for various surgical cases in the eye theatre.
• Taking care of patients in the wards.
• Performing Eye Examination scans on the patients i.e. OCT, Visual Field, Corneal Topography, biometry and fundus photo.
• Offering pre-operative, intra-operative and post- operative care.
• Stocking exam, procedure and theatre rooms with prerequisite supplies and equipment.
• Eye irrigation, swabbing and applying eye pads.
• Cleaning and sterilizing medical instruments and tools before and after use.
• Administering and dispensing prescribed treatment to patients.
• Patients education and booking patients for various procedures.
• Examine and triage eye patients, recording findings and suggested treatment in the main hospital, its branches or during outreach medical camps.
• Preparing and submitting accurate/ timely management reports
• Take part in company projects and carry out any other tasks that may be assigned to them by their Line Manager and/ or any other person placed in authority over them.

Qualifications

1. Valid nursing council of Kenya license
2. KRCHN/ KRN certificate from a recognized institution
3. Higher diploma in Ophthalmic nursing will be an added advantage
4. Certificate of BLS will be an added advantage
5. At least 1 year working experience in a busy hospital/clinic Environment
6. Able to start immediately