Nurse - 2 Posts at Kenya Medical Research - KEMRI

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide high-quality nursing care to participants,
• Conduct participant’s assessments, monitor vital signs, and assist in the diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions.
• Obtaining informed consent and enrolment of participants into study.
• Explaining study procedures to eligible participants
• Obtains medical history and performs physical examination
• Offers individual, group and family counseling to participants and patients
• Confirms eligibility for all study participants
• Conducts protocol specific tests and procedures
• Providing project management team with regular feedback on participant recruitment.
• Provide HIV counseling, testing and lab results interpretation
• Verify quality of data by comparing abstracted data to source documents
• Responds to participant’s calls
• Administer the oral cholera vaccine and perform phlebotomy.
• Retention activities-follow up of participants in need of close monitoring and review together with visit reminders via phone calls
• Record any adverse events and notify the lead clinician of the same as per protocol
• Performs other duties as may be assigned
• Collaborate with the research team to collect, document, and report clinical data accurately.
• Administer Case Report Forms and perform quality checks
• Ensure compliance with ethical, regulatory, and clinical guidelines in all activities.
• Participate in training and capacity-building activities for clinic staff and community partners.

Vacancy Requirements:

• Diploma in Nursing    Mandatory
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in both English and Kiswahili.    Mandatory
• Training in GCP and Human subjects will be an added advantage.    Added Advantage
• Experience with current methods of epidemiology surveillance; having worked in a multidisciplinary, multi-site project will be an added advantage    Added Advantage
• Registered with the Nursing Council of Kenya    Mandatory
• Team player    Mandatory
• Excellent Communication and people skills    Mandatory
• Highly organized    Mandatory
• Ability to work without supervision    Mandatory