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Marie Stopes International Ethiopia

Marie Stopes International Ethiopia

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Position: Clinical Nurse
Job Time: Full-Time
Job Type: Permanent
Place of Work: Addis Ababa - Ethiopia
Posted date: 3 years ago
Deadline: Submition date is over

Under general supervision by the MSIE Centre Coordinator, Centre Head, Centre Manager/OPD, the incumbent performs nursing duties ensuring efficient delivery and client/patient care in accordance with accepted standard medical practice and professional codes of conduct.

 

DUTIES/TASKS

   General

  • Provides nursing services, within the defined scope of practice, to patients based on patient assessment and care planning procedures
  • Performs nursing interventions such as taking vital signs, applying aseptic techniques including sterile dressing, ensuring infection control, monitoring nutritional intake and conducting specimen collection
  • Administers medication and observes and documents therapeutic effects
  • Provides pre-operative and post-operative personal and comfort care
  • Monitors patients' progress, evaluate the effectiveness of nursing interventions and consults with appropriate members of the healthcare team
  • Provides reproductive health/family planning education to individuals and their families.

  Safe Abortion Nurse Role

  • Conducts safe abortion of pregnancies upon request and/or occasioned by medical, economic, or social reasons;
  • Supplies to patients various forms of pregnancy termination procedures (pills, implants, injection, MVA procedures, drainage, etc.,) upon instructions by a gynaecologist;
  • Carries out emergency treatment of pregnant women to stop symptoms such as bleeding, vomiting, and nausea;
  • Provides counseling on preventing unwanted pregnancies; correct use of pregnancy termination procedures;

  Instrument Nurse Role:

  • Prepares all surgical instruments, sets, and medical supplies required for operation in accordance with accepted standards,
  • Assists doctors intra-operatively (as a Scrub Nurse, Circulating Nurse, etc.) and makes the instruments ready for other operations as required.
  • Ensures proper receipt, storage, safe keep, issuance, and timely placement of orders of surgical instruments and medical supplies for theatre by pre-establishing re-order level and regular replenishment of enough stocks.

Operation Theatre/Scrub Nurse Role:

  • Prepares patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing the patients' operative areas, weighs, lifts, turns, and positions patients; shaves patients prior to operations;
  • Assists in surgery by laying out instruments, setting up equipment, assisting surgical teams with gowns and gloves and passing instruments to surgeons
  • Cleans and sterilizes the operating room and instruments.
  • Supervises patients' exercise routines,
  • Sets up and provide leisure activities for patients,
  • Accompanies patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
  • Transports patients by wheelchair or stretcher for treatment or surgery
  • Carries messages, reports, requisitions, and specimens between departments
  • Makes beds and maintains patients' rooms

Antenatal Care Nurse Role:

  • Takes blood pressure, temperature and pulse of pregnant women throughout their pregnancy as part of regular follow-up;
  • Carries out laboratory tests of patients as part of the evaluation of health conditions of pregnant women with unusual diagnosis and reports to the gynaecologist
  • Provides counseling to those pregnant women having physiological or social difficulties;
  • Observes or monitors pregnant women’s status and documents patient care on charts;
  • Administers first aid in emergency situations;
  •  Administers suppositories, colonic irrigation, and enemas
  • Performs other procedures as directed by supervisor

Related Duties/Tasks

  • Ensures the maintenance of high-level standards and applies universal precautions to prevent infection (e.g. HIV/AIDS) from blood or other body fluids of patients
  • Accounts for all assets under his/her custody during regular stock taking and audit as and when required.
  • Prepares and submits periodic reports as required.
  • Maintain inventory of supplies; accounts for all assets under his/her custody during regular stock taking and audit as and when required.
  • Prepares and submits periodic reports as required.
  • Make an on-time report for the clinical incident that happened in the center as per the guideline of MSIE.
  • Performs related tasks as required
 

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Qualification Requirements

Education:

  •  BSc/Diploma in Nursing

Experience

  • Two Years’ experience as a junior nurse

Skills, Attitudes, and Attributes

  • Good Communication and Interpersonal skills
  • Conscious of Government, MSI and MSIE regulations
  • Ability to make logical and timely decisions
  • Counseling skill
  • Awareness of concepts and strategies of quality care
  • Pro-choice

 

Number of Position: (4)

Duty Station: MSIE Addis Ketema & Megenagna Center, Addis Ababa

Employment Type: Full time

Salary:  As per the MSIE Salary Scale