Registered Nurse

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Registered Nurse

Location: Sangotedo, Lagos

Responsibilities

• Perform patient assessment using appropriate, problem-focused, and age-specific assessment techniques. Derive nursing interventions, set priorities according to patient needs, formulate a plan of care, implement and evaluate the outcome.
• Sources and develops materials to update or create new SOPs, ensuring alignment with the organization’s quality standards
• Accurately interprets prescriptions to ensure safe and effective patient care.
• Participate in regular reviews of SOPs and processes to ensure compliance with best practices.
• Addresses patients' basic inquiries with clarity and efficiently routes more complex questions to the appropriate healthcare professionals.
• Maintain up-to-date records in electronic medical record (EMR) systems, ensuring accuracy and confidentiality.
• Recognize subtle cues to anticipate potential problems.
• 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.
• Assess patient and family readiness and identify learning needs
• Collaborates effectively with physicians, fellow nurses, and allied health professionals to develop and implement comprehensive patient care.
• Perform clerical duties when needed. Ensure that patients are provided with appropriate nutrition. Manage paediatric patients with infectious diseases when applicable
• Identifies abnormal findings from patient assessments and understands when to perform a reassessment, consistently initiating follow-up actions as needed to ensure patient safety.
• 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
• Consistently identifies areas for improvement for all nursing processes, and communicates effectively with the manager or coordinator to enhance process efficiency and execution.
• Demonstrate thorough knowledge of all relevant Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and clinical guidelines in the department, distinguish between different nursing processes and procedures, ensuring adherence to the appropriate protocols.
• 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 Home care visits when scheduled on-call shift.

Requirements

• Candidates must reside within Sangotedo or its immediate environs
• Minimum of 2 - 5 years of postgraduate nursing experience in an accredited University Teaching, Federal Medical Center, or International hospital. BLS/ACLS Certificates
• Bachelor’s Degree OR Diploma of Nursing from an accredited nursing college, University with High Distinction
• Please note that only applicants who meet the specified requirements will be contacted.
• Must have current clinical experience in direct patient care and have worked a minimum of 2 years in the last 3 years.