CURE Children’s Hospital of Zimbabwe
Job Summary:
Overall responsible for efficiently carrying out assigned duties, conducting patient assessments, carrying out doctor’s instructions, evaluating patient care, and ensuring patient safety.
Main Responsibilities:
- To Provide total individualised and comprehensive nursing care to patients according to nursing and doctors plans.
- To Perform nursing procedures and treatment of patients in a competent and professional manner.
- Application and removal of plaster of paris in the absence of the physiotherapist.
- Plans and implements the Nursing initial and continuous assessments for patients applying the holistic approach using the nursing process.
- Ensure a clean therapeutic environment for the patients placed under your care.
- Acts as a professional role model at all times upholding the standards and Ethics of the profession.
- Promotes good Team spirit good interpersonal, interdepartmental relationships, and personnel cooperation.
- Implements laid down policies and follows procedures.
- Provides treatment and administers medicines to patients and documents accurately and regulations of the hospital.
- Monitors patients’ vital signs and records accurately the same on 24-hour charts e.g. compiling intake and output and fluid balance charts.
Qualifications and Experience
- Diploma in Nursing
- Post Basic in the following disciplines ICCN, AON, Anaesthesia, and Nutrition an added advantage.
- Previous minimum of 2 years of clinical nursing practice in a pediatric surgical ward unit post-training.
- Valid Practicing certificate.
- Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook)
- Excellent verbal and written communication.