Main Duties:▪ Planning, providing, and evaluating nursing care to patients on their individual needs
▪ Ensuring patients’ nursing needs such as physical, psychological and mental needs are attended to
▪ Providing individually tailored care to patients
▪ Assisting patients to perform their ordinary daily activities.
▪ Monitoring record and report changes in patient’s symptoms.
▪ Maintaining accurate reports on patients.
▪ Assessing the needs of patients and planning for nursing care.
▪ Participating in ward rounds with medical and nursing personnel.
▪ Assisting medical staff in the examination and treatment of patients
▪ Assisting in clinical investigative procedures.
▪ Orienting and supervising new staff and students.
▪ Ensuring proper coordination and smooth running of the ward activities.
▪ Ensuring good communication with patients and other departments for continuity of patient care
▪ Maintaining a safe and clean working environment by adhering to set standards and procedures
▪ Ensuring that patients discharged from the wards take with them the prescribed drugs and discharge
summaries and follow up on any scheduled appointments.
▪ Participating in quality improvement initiatives within the department and providing reports as required