Nursing Officer at Coastal Specialist Clinic

Coastal Specialist Clinic is a mother-and-child hospital that focuses on pregnancy, childbirth, and everything in between. We started providing services in 2011. Additionally, we are committed to upholding high standards through great work ethics, continual improvement, and superior customer service. We are currently located in Warri, Delta State, Nigeria.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Nursing Officer

Location: Warri, Delta
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• The Nursing officer will be responsible formonitoring patients' health through observing and assessing their records, symptoms, and reactions to treatment and care.
• You will haveextensive interaction with patients' families as well, guiding and instructing them in aftercare measures.
• The job function can vary depending on where they are drafted to work and the peculiar needs of the particular patients youcare for.

Key Result Areas (KRA)
The key result areas of this role are:

• Order, interpret, and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess patients' conditions.
• Assess and evaluate patients' needs for, and responses to, care rendered.
• Treating the patient as an individual rather than as a diagnosis or number
• Empowering the patient to make choices and decisions to instill a sense of control over medical issues and personal health
• Showing compassion and helping to alleviate fear and anxiety by maintaining a calm presence, answering questions and addressing concerns
• Treating the patient with dignity and respect and exhibiting an awareness of age, gender, racial, cultural and religious differences
• Expressing empathy toward patients in an attempt to understand what they are experiencing
• Communicating therapeutically by the use of touch, making eye contact, speaking directly to the patient, exhibiting a calm and unhurried manner, allowing time to respond to questions and responding appropriately to body language.
• Priorities patient safety
• Documenting of nursing process and care plan.
• Preventing infection and cross-infection is important to protect both patients and healthcare professionals.
• Order, stock and maintain store room with adequate levels of supplies and equipment that is used frequently.
• Participate in the Discharge process using the Nursing procedure
• Organizing clinical trials for the testing of medical equipment
• Archives maintenance records, along with other study documents, at the end of the trial.
• Carry out duties and responsibilities in compliance with the organization's Health, Safety, Environment and Quality (HSEQ) policy and statutory regulations.
• Ensure a clean, comfortable and safe environment for patients, clients and members of staff.

The Person

• Minimum Academic Qualification of Bachelor of Nursing Sciences BNSC or Registered Nurse/Midwife (RN or RM)
• 1 to 3 years of practical and relevant work experience in the healthcare sector
• Must be registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria
• Must have a valid practising license.
• Must have paid renewal fee for licensed expired with evidence of REMITA Page of success or Teller from Bank.
• Must have basic Computer appreciation knowledge
• Outstanding Communication in English language (Oral and Written)
• Good interpersonal managerial relationship
• Must possess a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Knowledge of patient rights.
• Knowledge of Nursing Practice Act.
• Knowledge of patient safety.
• Knowledge of hospital-acquired infection control and management.

Application Closing Date
31st January, 2025.