Registered Nurse at EHA Clinics

EHA Clinics, a subsidiary of eHealth Africa, is a health care network operating across Nigeria that provides high-quality, innovative, data-driven, and technology-enabled services. EHA Clinics delivers a comprehensive range of state of the art health care services in each location, e.g,  general consultations, laboratory investigations, pharmaceuticals, annual medical checks, child wellness checks, ultrasonography, and specialized services (urgent care, telemedicine, home care, dental care, and ophthalmology).

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Registered Nurse

Location: Sangotedo, Lagos

Responsibilities

• Perform patient assessment using appropriate, problem-focused, and age-specific assessment techniques. Derive nursing interventions, set priorities according to patient needs, formulate a plan of care, implement and evaluate the outcome.
• Provide emotional support and measures to alleviate fear and anxiety. Assess patient and family readiness and identify learning needs. Participate in voluntary community health activities to promote, maintain and restore health and prevent diseases.
• Provide basic life support when needed. Document all relevant data in the electronic medical record according Administer medications, monitor desirable and undesirable effects, and intervene appropriately
• Demonstrate thorough knowledge of all relevant Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and clinical guidelines in the department, distinguish between different nursing processes and procedures, ensuring adherence to the appropriate protocols.
• Participate in regular reviews of SOPs and processes to ensure compliance with best practices.
• Maintain up-to-date records in electronic medical record (EMR) systems, ensuring accuracy and confidentiality.
• Identifies abnormal findings from patient assessments and understands when to perform a reassessment, consistently initiating follow-up actions as needed to ensure patient safety.
• Recognize subtle cues to anticipate potential problems.
• Assess patient and family readiness and identify learning needs
• Consistently identifies areas for improvement for all nursing processes, and communicates effectively with the manager or coordinator to enhance process efficiency and execution.
• Addresses patients\' basic inquiries with clarity and efficiently routes more complex questions to the appropriate healthcare professionals.
• Collaborates effectively with physicians, fellow nurses, and allied health professionals to develop and implement comprehensive patient care.
• Administer medications, monitor desirable and undesirable effects, and intervene appropriately. Travel to patients’ homes to deliver care as required. Manage patients with infectious diseases when applicable. Attends Home care visits when scheduled on-call shift.
• Perform clerical duties when needed. Ensure that patients are provided with appropriate nutrition. Manage paediatric patients with infectious diseases when applicable
• Sources and develops materials to update or create new SOPs, ensuring alignment with the organization’s quality standards
• Accurately interprets prescriptions to ensure safe and effective patient care.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree OR Diploma of Nursing from an accredited nursing college, University with High Distinction 
• Minimum of 2 - 5 years of postgraduate nursing experience in an accredited University Teaching, Federal Medical Center, or International hospital. BLS/ACLS Certificates
• Must have current clinical experience in direct patient care and have worked a minimum of 2 years in the last 3 years.
• Candidates must reside within Sangotedo or its immediate environs
• Please note that only applicants who meet the specified requirements will be contacted.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: recruitment@eha.ng using the Job Title as the subject of the email.