Nurse at Fosad Consulting Limited

Fosad Consulting, LLC. is a professional services firm established to provide quality consulting services to desiring clients, whose primary objective is to focus their management and technical resources on their core competence.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Nurse

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Duties & Responsibilities

• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate the nursing care needs of a specific group of service users
• To supervise, mentor, and teach qualified ancillary staff. To coordinate the patient environments on a shift-by-shift basis and to coordinate care for a specified group of service users. Note that this is a guideline, not a comprehensive list of duties.

Assisting and Caring for Patients:

• Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers and patients’ families.
• Perform physical examinations of your patients at the start of every shift
• Administer prescribed drugs, injections, inhalation, intravenous, and other medications.
• Adhere to and observe the ten rights of medication administration
• Administer treatments such as physiotherapy, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy
• Assist in examining or treating medical, surgical, and dental patients
• Care for mentally ill patients
• Prepare patients for tests, therapy, or treatments.
• Prepare rooms, sterile instruments, equipment, and supplies, and ensure that stock of supplies is maintained
• Provide health care, first aid, immunizations, and assistance in locations such as schools, clinics, homes, and hospice centers.
• Treat patients en route to hospitals or at disaster site triage centers when required.
• Monitor all aspects of patient care, including diet and physical activity
• Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patients' responses and conditions.

Documenting and Recording Information:

• Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic / magnetic form.
• Maintain accurate detailed reports of patient’s history and treatments
• Monitor, record, and report symptoms and changes in patients’ conditions.
• All incidents or near misses must be reported in the appropriate form and to the shift leader / ward manager.

Communicating with Shift Leaders, ward Managers, Nursing Colleagues, or Subordinates:

• Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
• Consult and coordinate with multidisciplinary teams to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care plans.
• Inform consultants and medical officers regularly of changes in patients’ conditions.
• Interpret medical laboratory test results
• Explain testing procedures to patient
• Communicate information on patient care and related matters to the consultants, nurse in charge, or the ward manager.
• Accept professional responsibility for the safe custody, administration, and recording of medications in accordance with the hospital medication policy.
• Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time
• Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to enter data or process information
• Direct and supervise less-skilled nursing or health care personnel

Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge:

• Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Use the clinical problem-solving technique
• Follow institutional care policies and procedures
• Follow patient observation procedures
• Follow infectious material procedures
• Use nursing practices and evidence-based procedures
• Use counselling techniques
• Use sanitation practices in health care settings
• Use knowledge of nursing terminology
• Use knowledge of medical terminology
• Use personal care procedures.
• Engage in continuing nursing education and research activities related to nursing.

Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work:

• Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
• Developing personal yearly goals and objectives in keeping with your professional career advancement and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
• Participating and completing your professional competencies as required by the institution.
• To comply with the Gbagada Cardio-Renal hospital Fire precautions and procedures for evacuation and disaster plan policy
• To be appraised annually based on the Key Performance Indicators and yearly personal objectives.
• To positively promote The Gbagada Cardio-Renal hospital philosophy to caring, and contribute to achieving the Hospital’s objectives.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Must be a Professional Registered Nurse
• Graduate of a recognized School of Nursing
• 1-5 years of related work experience
• Fluent in English both in writing and communication
• Capable of performing multiple nursing tasks.
• ACLS & BCLS certification required
• Good interpersonal skills and result-oriented.
• Must have a helping and caring nature.

Application Closing Date
14th June, 2022.