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Location: Osisioma Industrial Layout, Aba - Abia
Department: Nursing
Report to: Assistant Manager, Nursing services

Mission Objective

The nursing department delivers quality healthcare by providing evidence-based, patient-centered care, implementing quality improvement initiatives, and prioritizing the needs and preferences of patients.
Nurses work collaboratively to ensure that patients receive the highest standard of care and achieve optimal health outcomes.
The Registered Nurse provides direct and indirect care for assigned patients in various nursing units and home visits per scheduled shift.
The Registered Nurse is primarily responsible for professional performance and safe patient care.
The role encompasses nursing assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, evaluation, and coordination of care for patients across the healthcare continuum involving families.
Duties include but are not limited to, managing patients with various medical cases.

Duties and Responsibilities
Process Basic Transactions
Purpose:

Perform patient assessment using appropriate, problem-focused, and age-specific assessment techniques. Analyze the assessment data, derive nursing interventions, set priorities according to patient needs, formulate a plan of care, implement and evaluate the outcome.
Provide emotional support and measures to alleviate fear and anxiety. Assess patient and family readiness and identify learning needs. Participate in voluntary community health activities to promote, maintain and restore health and prevent diseases.
Provide basic life support when needed. Document all relevant data in the electronic medical record according Administer medications, monitor desirable and undesirable effects, and intervene appropriately.

Engagement
Inform:

Basic Information Organization
Delivery:

Administer medications, monitor desirable and undesirable effects, and intervene appropriately. Travel to patients' homes to deliver care as required. Manage patients with infectious diseases when applicable. Attends to Home care visits when scheduled on-call shift.
Perform clerical duties when needed. Ensure that patients are provided with appropriate nutrition. Manage pediatric patients with infectious diseases when applicable.

Targeted Specialized Knowledge

Bachelor's Degree OR Diploma of Nursing from an accredited nursing college, University with High Distinction (Top 10% of graduating class).
Must have current clinical experience in direct patient care and have worked a minimum of 2 years in the last 3 years.
Must have at least 3 years of postgraduate nursing experience in an accredited University Teaching, Federal Medical Centre, or International hospital.
Hold and maintain a current nursing license to practice in Nigeria.

Key Areas of Note:

Keep up to date with relevant medical research, technology, and evidence-based medical practice by attending continuing education courses and professional meetings, reading journals, etc.
Research unusual symptoms and treatment options, through consultation with physicians and other medical specialists.

Key Skills and Attributes:

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate, but can become louder at times due to group discussions or activities.
EHA Clinics is a tobacco-free environment.

Registered Nurse