Clinical Nurse (Internal/External) at Marie Stopes International Ethiopia

Marie Stopes International Ethiopia

Position: Clinical Nurse (Internal/External)

Job Time: Full-Time

Job Type: Permanent

Place of Work: Addis Ababa, Addis Abeba - Ethiopia

Posted date: 1 week ago

Deadline: July, 03/2024 (0 days left)

JOB SUMMARY

Under general supervision by the MSIE Centre Coordinator, Centre Head, and Centre Manager/OPD, the incumbent performs nursing duties ensuring efficient delivery and client/patient care under accepted standard medical practice and professional codes of conduct.

DUTIES/TASKS

General

• Provides nursing services, within defined scope of practice, to patients based on patient assessment and care planning procedures
• Performs nursing interventions such as taking vital signs, applying aseptic techniques including sterile dressing, ensuring infection control, monitoring nutritional intake, and conducting specimen collection
• Administers medication and observes and documents therapeutic effects
• Provides pre-operative and post-operative personal and comfort care
• Monitors patient's progress, evaluates the effectiveness of nursing interventions and consults with appropriate members of the healthcare team
• Provides reproductive health/family planning education to individuals and their families.

Safe Abortion Nurse Role

• Conducts safe abortion of pregnancies upon request and/or occasioned by medical, economic, or social reasons;
• Supplies to patients various forms of pregnancy termination procedures (pills, implants, injection, MVA procedures, drainage, etc.,) upon instructions by a gynecologist;
• Carries out emergency treatment of pregnant women to stop symptoms such as bleeding, vomiting, and nausea;
• Provides counseling on preventing unwanted pregnancies; correct use of pregnancy termination procedures;

Instrument Nurse Role:

• Prepares all surgical instruments, sets, and medical supplies required for operation by accepted standards,
• Assists doctors intra-operatively (as a Scrub Nurse, Circulating Nurse, etc.) and makes the instruments ready for other operations as required.
• Ensures proper receipt, storage, safekeeping, issuance, and timely placement of orders of surgical instruments and medical supplies for theatre by pre-establishing re-order levels and regular replenishment of enough stocks.

Operation Theatre/Scrub Nurse Role:

• Prepares patients for surgery by washing, shaving, and sterilizing the patients' operative areas, weighs, lifts, turns, and positions patients; shaves patients before operations;
• Assists in surgery by laying out instruments, setting up equipment, assisting surgical teams with gowns and gloves, and passing instruments to surgeons
• Cleans and sterilizes the operating room and instruments.
• Supervises patients' exercise routines,
• Sets up and provides leisure activities for patients,
• Accompanies patients on outside recreational activities and performs other duties related to patient care and comfort
• Transports patients by wheelchair or stretcher for treatment or surgery
• Carries messages, reports, requisitions, and specimens between departments
• Makes beds and maintains patients' rooms

Antenatal Care Nurse Role:

• Takes blood pressure, temperature, and pulse of pregnant women throughout their pregnancy as part of regular follow-up;
• Carries out laboratory tests of patients as part of the evaluation of health conditions of pregnant women with unusual diagnoses and reports to gynecologist
• Provides counseling to those pregnant women having physiological or social difficulties;
• Observe or monitor pregnant women’s status and document patient care on charts;
• Administers first aid in emergencies;
• Administers suppositories, colonic irrigations, and enemas
• Performs other procedures as directed by the supervisor

Related Duties/Tasks

• Ensures the maintenance of high-level standards and applies universal precautions to prevent infection (e.g. HIV/AIDS) from blood or other body fluids of patients
• Accounts for all assets under his/her custody during regular stock taking and audit as and when required.
• Prepares and submits periodic reports as required.
• Maintain inventory of supplies; accounts for all assets under his/her custody during regular stock taking and audit as and when required.
• Prepares and submits periodic reports as required.
• Make an on-time report for the clinical incident that happened in the center as per the guidelines of MSIE.
• Performs related tasks as required

About You

Qualification Requirements

Education:

• BSc/Diploma in Nursing

Experience

• Two/Four Years’ experience as a junior nurse

Skills, Attitudes, and Attributes

• Good Communication and Interpersonal skills
• Conscious of Government, MSI, and MSIE regulations
• Ability to make logical and timely decisions
• Counselling skill
• Awareness of concepts and strategies for quality care

How to apply

We invite candidates meeting the required qualifications to download and fill out the job application form from https://mariestopes.org.et/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2022/06/MSIE-Job-Application-Form.pdf and email it to Humanresource@mariestopes.org.et before the closing date of this announcement.

Please note that we ONLY consider those who filled in the application form and send us back. We regret to inform you that we do not accept CVs at this stage.

Please mention the title of the position and workplace you applied for in the subject line of your email.

Due to the volume of applications, we will only contact shortlisted candidates, and we are unable to provide any feedback on unsuccessful applications.

CANDIDATES WHO DO NOT FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

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