Nurse III at International Rescue Committee

 Key Responsibilities

The Nurse is directly responsible to the Facility in charge or the departmental in charge and will carry out the following duties:

Assessment, planning, coordination and implementation of patient care

• Assess patients and plan for their care as appropriate.
• Guide and organize Auxiliary Nurses and Junior Nurses in the department to meet patient care needs.
• Make orders of drugs and other supplies as necessary.
• Ensure patients access specialized procedures as prescribed by clinicians/doctors/other team members.
• Write report on patients during shift change.
• Attend and facilitate Continuous Medical Education and clinical audits.
• Participate in hospital coverage and on-call as required.

Organization of services

• Guide and supervise support staff on departmental cleanliness in absence of the In-charge.
• Arrange and submit weekly/monthly ward or unit work schedule, plan daily duties and responsibilities for both national and refugee staff and leave plans to ensure adequate coverage in consultation with the facility/departmental in charge.

Essential supplies and equipment

• Keep inventory of drugs and equipment.

Service delivery (Quality nursing services)

• Ensure that all required observations, prescribed treatment and procedures are properly carried out and documented on patient’s charts.
• Provide quality triage services documenting vital signs, identify and initiate emergency care in collaboration with the clinicians.
• Document clearly patient vital signs in the patient cards, books and ensure growth monitoring charts are fully filled.
• Counsel and educate patients on identified psychosocial-economic needs.
• Adhere to the hospital health and safety policies, guidelines/protocols (e.g. the use of personal protective clothing/equipment.
• Provide standard care to patients at the triage, emergency and outpatient units.
• Identify and manage obstetric emergencies and newborn related emergencies appropriately.
• Manage post-natal mothers and their babies to prevent complications.
• Provide focused antenatal care as per national policies and guidelines.
• Provide family planning services as per national policies and guidelines.
• Provide growth monitoring services as per guidelines.
• Manage minor childhood illnesses using national policies and guidelines.
• Provide health promotion services in the department.
• Provide emergency services including referral of patients to other level of care.

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Write reports on services in the department as necessary through Compiling and submitting weekly/monthly HIS reports.

Key Result Areas

• Assessment, Planning, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation of nursing care services and other related activities within the allocated ward/unit.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Certificate or Diploma in Nursing/Midwifery/Community Health Nursing from a recognized medical training college with a minimum of1 year in clinical practice in a busy Hospital.
• Registered by the Nursing Council of Kenya.
• Possess a valid practice license.
• Basic skills in computer applications.