Nurse at Langata Hospital

Job Purpose

• Promotes and restores patients’ health by completing the nursing process
• Collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members
• Providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families
• Supervising assigned team members

Responsibilities for the Nurse Job

• Identifies patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand care requirements
• Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
• Promotes patient’s independence by establishing patient care goals
• Teaching patient, friends, and family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills;
• Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards
• Measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards
• Making or recommending necessary adjustments
• Following hospital and nursing division’s philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing,
• Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations; calling for assistance from health care support personnel.
• Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations
• Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
• Maintains continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.
• Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
• Ensures operation of equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; following manufacturer’s instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; calling for repairs; maintaining equipment inventories; evaluating new equipment and techniques.
• Maintains nursing supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed supplies; placing and expediting orders for supplies; verifying receipt of supplies; using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
• Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information; responding to requests; building rapport; participating in team problem-solving methods.

Nurse Job Qualifications

• 3 Years minimum working experience
• Degree/Diploma in Nursing
• Bedside Manner
• Infection Control
• Nursing Skills
• Physiological Knowledge
• Administering Medication
• Medical Teamwork
• Multi-tasking,
• Keen to details
• Verbal Communication
• Health Promotion