About this role
ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT
1. Adherence to nursing care vision, mission, goals and objectives, aligns with the scope of nursing services, and performs shift duties as assigned by the Unit Manager to ensure high quality care rendered.
2. Notifies the unit manager of any changes in the situation that could impact the standards of care.
3. Obtains and handovers a report of patient progress, ensuring all doctor's orders are followed before changing or over taking shifts and notifying any incidents or problems encountered.
4. Visit patients in the unit with team members to assess conditions, re-plan nursing care, and determine nursing priorities based on patient needs and staff availability.
5. Provide personalized, holistic patient care, with accurate documentation and timely reporting of abnormal findings. High-quality maternity care is provided, including emergency procedures, a national registry for child births and deaths, and safe maternal and child healthcare.
6. Conducts nursing rounds on patients, providing emotional support and accompanying doctors while doing rounds, as well as assisting in procedures as needed.
7. Executing the doctor's orders, coordinating with team members related to patients’ treatment, and fostering effective communication with all disciplines, patients, and relatives to ensure patient satisfaction.
8. Assisting state-registered midwives with monitoring for CTG and complications like preterm labor and hemorrhage.
9. Guiding and supervising new mothers on self-care, newborn care, breastfeeding, and family planning and preparing to provide postnatal home care education and support.
10. Actively participates in the health education of patients and their families in the ward as well as unit meetings, dialogue sessions, and hospital activities.
11. Provide clear, compassionate, and culturally sensitive communication with patients, ensuring their understanding of their condition, treatment options, and care plan comprehensively.
12. Collaborate with the unit manager in administration, setting care standards, and fulfilling duties in the absence of the unit manager, while also carrying out assigned tasks and providing feedback.
13. Assist with patient transfer inter-services and discharge procedures, scheduling specialist clinic appointments (if needed), handling death cases with respect and ensuring safe transfer to the mortuary.
14. Charge accurately, incorporating charges for equipment and consumable items into the patient's charges and verifying their completeness.
15. Inspect and document the supply of sterile packs to ensure the integrity of the packaging and maintain an adequate supply of unit stock from CSSS. 16. Trained and certified BLS/ ACLS Neonatal Resuscitation, obstetric emergency lifesaving skills. 17. Attends obstetric drills at regular interval. 18. Privileges to work in Maternity ward, core competency yearly and repeat privileging every 3 years. 19. Demonstrates high standard of maternity care such as emergency and elective caesarean section, instrument deliveries, national registry on records of births, miscarriages or still births, obstetric emergencies/complications, PPH, APH, Premature labour, CTG monitoring and quality and safe maternal and child healthcare. 20. Assists unit manager to coordinate with pediatricians and O&G consultants for effective bed management. 21. Active participation and involvement in accordance to Baby Friendly Hospital initiative certification such as exclusive breast feeding, skin to skin and rooming in. 22. Assist the SCM to monitor patients:
• On CTG monitoring as ordered by Consultants • Premature labour • Ante-partum or post-partum haemorrhage 23. Assists, supervises and gives support to mother especially first time mother regarding:
• Care for herself and newborn, • breast feeding, • adjust the home situation to the new child, • family planning.