Qualifications & Experience:

• National Diploma or BSc in Nursing
  

• Two years’ work experience especially in a mission setting is an asset
  

• Appropriate professional technical training.
  

• Long term commitment
  

• A desire to learn, teach and train others
  

• Mission minded; Christian of good standing
  

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with attention to details
  

• Ability to work diligently under pressure and maintain confidentiality
  

• Admit and discharge patients
  

• Maintain personal hygiene of the patients including bathing, care of mouth, back, nails, hair etc.
  

• Care for pressures points as needed
  

• Assist the patient in eliminating, offering, and removing the bed pans and urinals
  

• Care for the dying
  

• Prepare the corpse
  

• Administer medicines and injections to patients
  

• Assist in the administration of intravenous injections, injections, infusion and transfusion.
  

• Observe, record and report vital signs
  

• Carry out technical procedures such as naso-gastric intubation, gastric gavage and lavage, oxygen therapy, dressing, enema, suctioning etc.
  

• Escorting patients to and from the department for investigations
  

• Handing and taking over of patients per shift
  

• Handing and taking over of ward inventory per shift
  

• Routine care and cleaning of dressing trolleys, cupboards etc.
  

• Maintenance of a therapeutic environment in the ward.
  

• Maintain interpersonal relationship with the patients, relatives and health team member