Nurse at Stellar Physio

Duties and Responsibilities

• Identify patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand care requirements.
• Establish a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
• Promote patient’s independence by establishing patient care goals; teaching patient, friends, and family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills; answering questions.
• Assure quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments; following hospital and nursing division’s philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations.
• Resolve patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.
• Maintain safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
• Protect patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.
• Document patient care services and.
• Maintain patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
• Any other duties that may be assigned from time to time.

Key Qualifications and Skills

• Over two (5) years’ experience in a busy hospital set-up.
• Registered nurse with a Diploma in Nursing from KMTC or other recognized nurse-training institute.
• Valid and current registration with the Nursing Council of Kenya will be an added advantage.
• Strong leadership, team building, conflict resolution and ability to deliver strategic objectives.
• Demonstrated proficiency in computer applications such as word processing, spreadsheets, database, email and utilization of the internet.
• Should be a team player and culturally sensitive.
• Strong communication skills: oral, written and presentation skills.