Avenue Healthcare Accident & Emergency (A&E) Nurse – Specialized Jobs in Kenya
Purpose Statement
Our purpose is to enable and maintain health.
Mission
To provide high quality care that exceeds our clients’ expectations.
Job Description
About Avenue Healthcare
Avenue Healthcare is one of the leading private healthcare groups in East Africa running 3 Hospitals, and 19 Medical Centers across Kenya, and a Homecare business. With over 25 years in the healthcare industry, Avenue Healthcare runs 300 hospital beds with over 1,000 staff members, and more than 400 specialists and serves over 400,000 patients annually, offering primary, secondary, and tertiary healthcare services.
Job Objective/Purpose
Provide professional and compassionate nursing care and coordinate the delivery of Emergency treatment, by ensuring their review and treatment as per the Hospital protocols, and nursing standards and practices.
Key Responsibilities
Responding to Emergency alerts/hospital codes and rapid responses when needed.
Providing excellent holistic nursing care to the emergency patients as noted below.
Accurate documentation of all charts, checklists, forms, and relevant care bundles
Performing pressure area care for patients at risk including regular turning
Timely medications administration and safety compliance
Ensure all patients belongings are handled in a safe manner according to policy.
Listening to any patients/family complaints and ensuring they are addressed promptly.
Records patients’ current vital signs and provides care to emergency patients.
Collects current symptoms, as well as a detailed patient history and then consults and coordinates with health care team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care plans.
Performs triage, while considering both physical and psycho-social elements
Manages basic life support needs and stabilizes patients until the attending physician is available, based upon nursing standards and protocol.
Initiates corrective action whenever information from monitoring equipment shows adverse symptomatically.
Works directly under physicians, assisting them during exams, diagnostic testing, and treatments.
Prepares and administers prescribed medications as per policy including IVI.
Reports adverse reactions to medications or treatments in accordance with the policy regarding the administration of medications.
Cleans and bandages wounds for trauma patients.
Championing continual quality improvement with timely incident reporting
Maintaining and observing infection control measures for staff and patient’s wellbeing.
Upholding statutory regulations as required by nursing profession and Kenyan laws.
Person Specification
BSc in Nursing/Higher Diploma in Accident & Emergency Nursing.
3 years’ experience
Updated BLS/ACLS certificate
Strong interpersonal and communication skills
Current annual nurse practice license issued by the Nursing Council of Kenya
Attention to detail
Result Oriented
Customer focus
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; Avenue Healthcare Accident & Emergency (A&E) Nurse – Specialized Jobs in Kenya
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