Nurse-Maternity
- Organization: IRC - International Rescue Committee
- Location:
- Grade: Mid level - Mid level
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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.
This vacancy is now closed.
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