Locum Staff Nurses at Mater Misericordiae Hospital

Main Duties:

• Planning, providing, and evaluating nursing care to patients on their individual needs
• Ensuring patients’ nursing needs such as physical, psychological and mental needs are attended to
• Providing individually tailored care to patients
• Assisting patients to perform their ordinary daily activities.
• Monitoring, recording and reporting changes in patient’s symptoms.
• Maintaining accurate reports on patients.
• Assessing the needs of patients and planning for nursing care.
• Participating in ward rounds with medical and nursing personnel.
• Assisting medical staff in the examination and treatment of patients
• Assisting in clinical investigative procedures.
• Orienting and supervising new staff and students.
• Ensuring proper coordination and smooth running of the ward activities.
• Ensuring good communication with patients and other departments for continuity of patient care
• Maintaining a safe and clean working environment by adhering to set standards and procedures
• Ensuring that patients discharged from the wards take with them the prescribed drugs and discharge summaries and follow up on any scheduled appointments.
• Any other duty assigned.

Required Qualifications for the Position

• Diploma in KRCHN/KRN/M
• BSc Nursing
• Computer Proficiency.
• Registered with NCK with a valid practicing license.
• Minimum experience of 2 years post-graduation in Nursing.