Maternity
Nurse
Sector:
Health
Location:
Kenya
Employee
Type:
Regular
Employee
Category:
Full Time
Description
Based
in Hagadera, the Maternity Nurse will provide holistic, reproductive health
services to mothers in maternity department.
- Diagnosing, monitoring, and
examining mothers during pregnancy and in labor.
- Developing, assessing and
evaluating individual programs of care.
- Providing full focused antenatal
care, including counseling and screening tests in the hospital.
- Identifying high risk pregnancies
and making referral to clinicians and other medical specialist.
- Arranging and providing parenting
and health education for the mother, her partner and family members
- Responsible for the delivery of
the mother, ensuring the safety of both the mother and child.
- Offering support and advice
following events such as miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal abnormality and
neonatal death.
- Supervising and assisting mothers
in labor, monitoring labor using the partograph and writing of nursing
care plans.
- The clinical nurse will prepare
for and assist the doctors during the rounds and whenever required.
- Ensure that all required
observations, prescribed treatment and procedures are properly carried out
and documented on patient’s charts.
- Ensure that the birth Registration
of babies is carried out promptly before discharge of both mother and
baby.
- Escort patient to other referral
hospital when necessary
Reporting
and communication
- Compile and submit quarterly
inventory return/requisition of all drugs and supplies.
- Conduct regular training session
for refugee staff on basic nursing care/management of various ward cases
and charting.
- Compile and submit monthly HIS
reports.
- Arrange and submit daily ward work
schedule and plan daily duties and responsibilities for each refugee
staff.
- Attend ward meeting and attend
monthly hospital meetings.
Operations
- Maintain equipments in good condition
and submit regular inventory report of the same.
- Maintain drug registers and drug
consumption within the ward level.
- Ensure that all admissions,
discharges, transfers and deaths are properly recorded as they occur.
- Report any significant changes in
operations to the head nurse.
- Carry out any other additional
duties as may be assigned by the supervisor.
Required
Qualifications:
- Kenya Registered Community Health
Nurse (KRCHN)/ Kenya Registered Midwife. (KRM) and be registered by the
nursing council.
- Required Experience &
Competencies:
- At least one year experience
working in a busy maternity unit and 1 year in general nursing.
- Life support Skills on obstetric
and neonatal care.(ALSO/EMOC)
- Team player and cultural
sensitivity is required.
- Ability to work in a hardship
area. Previous experience in a Camp setting will be an added advantage
Kenyan
nationals are encouraged to apply. International allowances are not
available for this position. Salary and employee benefits are compliant to the
Kenyan NGO Sector.
Apply
via:
Please
apply on or before July 6, 2012
IRC
leading the way from harm to home.
IRC is
an Equal Opportunity Employer.
IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without
regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age,
marital status, veteran status or disability.
