• Application Deadline: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT
• Position: Head Nurse


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience 5 years


• Location Lagos


• Job Field Medical / Healthcare 
  

Job Description

• Ensure the highest standard of evidence-based nursing care is delivered to all patients and their families.


• Monitor and ensure patient satisfaction and be proactive in managing any issue that is identified.


• Ensure that all nursing practices are meeting the required standards.


• Discuss and promote innovations that will improve patient care


• Ensure that all policies, procedures, guidelines and work instructions that relate to the patient management regularly reviewed and updated, as required.


• Investigate incidents, accidents, concerns, non-conformities and complaints pertaining to the wards and team, ensuring that statements are collected within agreed deadlines and in accordance with hospital policies


• Exercise fair and firm leadership, establishing and maintaining high morale on the wards.


• Produce staff duty roasters to meet the activity of the wards/OPD, ensuring that staffing levels appropriately reflect case mix and dependency levels.


• Participate in selection and recruitment process, ensuring that all new staff receive an appropriate and completed induction to the hospital and wards that is documented.


• Ensure the wards comply with all health and safety requirements and that appropriate policies and procedures are in place.


• Ensure that all non-compliances are reported and appropriate actions taken as required.


• Administration of injections


• Administration of oral drugs


• Counseling of patients


• Follow up on all discharged or referred patients


• Making wards environment conducive for patient and relatives


• Monitoring of patient and giving health education to them


• Monitoring of labour cases


• Looking after patient ‘s health after deliveries


• Reporting of patient’ situational pulse to doctors


• Setting of intravenous infusion (when the needs arises)


• Monitoring of the food to be given to the patient


• Management of Nursing staff


• Calling or following up ANC patient when the need arises


• Ensuring functionality of the ward and associated facilities daily.


• Receiving complaints and solve problems of all patients


• Relationship management of in-patients & their relatives


• Ensuring documentation of post & delivery operative note


• Any other assignment from higher authority

Requirements

• Registered Nurse / Registered Midwife


• Above 5 years working experience as a RN/RM