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Nurse-Maternity

  • Organization: IRC - International Rescue Committee
  • Location:
  • Grade: Mid level - Mid level
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Public Health and Health Service
    • Medical Practitioners
  • Closing Date: Closed

To provide holistic, reproductive health services to clients in maternity department.

Key Responsibilities

  • Diagnosing, monitoring, and examining mothers during pregnancy and in labor.
  • Developing, assessing and evaluating individual programs of care.
  • Providing full focused antenatal care, including counseling and screening tests in the hospital.
  • Identifying high risk pregnancies and making referral to clinicians and other medical specialist.
  • Arranging and providing parenting and health education for the mother, her partner and family members
  • Responsible for the delivery of the mother, ensuring the safety of both the mother and child.
  • Offering support and advice following events such as miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal abnormality and neonatal death.
  • Supervising and assisting mothers in labor, monitoring labor using the partograph and writing of nursing care plans.
  • The clinical nurse will prepare for and assist the doctors during the rounds and whenever required.
  • Ensure that all required observations, prescribed treatment and procedures are properly carried out and documented on patient’s charts.
  • Ensure that the birth Registration of babies is carried out promptly before discharge of both mother and baby.
  • Escort patient to other referral hospital when necessary

Reporting and Communication

  • Participate in Compiling and submit quarterly inventory return/requisition of all drugs and supplies and report to head nurse.
  • Conduct regular training session for refugee staff on basic nursing care/management of various ward cases and charting.
  • Participate in compiling and submit to the head nurse weekly/monthly HIS reports.
  • Arrange and submit daily ward work schedule and plan daily duties and responsibilities for each refugee staff.
  • Attend ward meeting and attend monthly hospital meetings.

Operations

  • Maintain drug registers and drug consumption within the ward level during their shift.
  • Ensure that all admissions, discharges, transfers and deaths are properly recorded as they occur.
  • Report any significant changes in operations to the head nurse.
  • Carry out any other additional duties as may be assigned by the Head Nurse or her designate.

Key Result Areas

  • Professional and skilled management of mothers in labor.
  • To have well informed clients about their conditions and plan of care.
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