The successful candidate will be responsible for promoting and restoring 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 and educate patients and the public about various health conditions.
Additionally, they will be responsible for delivering babies and providing antenatal and postnatal advice, care and support to women, their babies, their partners and families.
The Registered Nurse/Midwife will be responsible for performing the following key duties:
- Resolves patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies
- Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols
- Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients' conditions
- Record and report patients' medical information and vital signs
- Consult and coordinate with healthcare team members to assess, plan, implement, or evaluate patient care plans
- Prepare patients for and assist with examinations or treatments
- Provide pre and post operative care
- Examine and monitor pregnant women
- Monitor the foetus during labour
- Take patient samples, pulses, temperatures and blood pressures
The ideal candidate must possess:
- Essential knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristic
- Infection control skills
- Medication administration skills
- Good bedside manner
- Excellent listening, written, interpersonal, multi-tasking and verbal skills
- Data entry skills
- ICU / PACU trained
Qualifications and experience:
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing or Associate Degree in Nursing
- A Minimum of five (5) CXC passes at General Proficiency, including English and Mathematics
- Computer proficiency
- BLS/ACLS Certified
- Post Graduate Diploma in Midwifery
- PROMPT certified would be an asset