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Marie Stopes International Ethiopia

Nurse



Employer: Marie Stopes International Ethiopia
Employment: Full-Time | Permanent
Place of Work: Shashemene - Ethiopia
Posted date: 5 years ago
Deadline: Submition date is over

JOB SUMMARY Under general supervision by the MSIE Centre Coordinator, Centre Head, Centre Manager/OPD, the incumbent performs nursing duties ensuring efficient delivery and client/patient care in accordance with accepted standard medical practice and professional codes of conduct. DUTIES/TASKS General - Provides nursing services, within the 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 patients' progress, evaluate 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 gynaecologist; - 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 in accordance with 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, safe keep, issuance and timely placement of orders of surgical instruments and medical supplies for theatre by pre-establishing re-order level 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 prior to 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 provide leisure activities for patients, - Accompanies patients on outside recreational activities and perform 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 diagnosis and reports to the gynaecologist - Provides counseling to those pregnant women having physiological or social difficulties; - Observes or monitors pregnant women’s status and documents patient care on charts; - Administers first aid in emergency situations; - Administers suppositories, colonic irrigations, and enemas - Performs other procedures as directed by supervisor Related Duties/Task - 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 guideline of MSIE. - Performs related tasks as required PERSON SPECIFICATION Qualification Requirements Education: - BSc/Diploma in Nursing Experience - Two Years’ for BSc and Four years for Diploma 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 of quality care - Pro-choice Number of Position: (01) Duty Station: MSIE Shashemene Centre, Shashemene Salary: As per MSIE Salary Scale