Nursing Manager at Stratostaff

The role oversees nursing workforce planning, professional development, patient care standards, and nursing quality improvement initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and supervise nursing staff across departments.
• Ensure compliance with nursing practice standards and patient care protocols.
• Maintain optimal nurse-to-patient ratios across shifts.
• Manage nursing workforce scheduling and staffing efficiency.
• Implement infection prevention and patient safety programmes.
• Promote continuous professional development for nursing staff.
• Monitor nursing quality indicators and patient satisfaction levels.
• Foster a supportive and high-performance nursing culture.

Key Success Factors

• Deliver high standards of quality and safe nursing care across all hospital units.
• Maintain approved nurse-to-patient staffing ratios across all shifts while minimizing excessive overtime and reliance on agency staff.
• Ensure infection prevention compliance, including maintaining hand hygiene adherence of at least 95% and keeping hospital infection rates within national healthcare benchmarks.
• Achieve patient satisfaction scores of at least 85% in relation to nursing care and services.
• Maintain accurate and complete patient documentation, with at least 98% documentation compliance.
• Ensure medication administration accuracy of at least 99% in line with patient safety standards.
• Promote workforce stability by maintaining annual nursing staff turnover at or below 18%.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing
• Registered with the Nursing Council of Kenya
• Master’s degree in Nursing Administration or Healthcare Management preferred
• Minimum 8 years of nursing experience with 3–5 years in leadership roles