SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:
Overview
Our client within the Healthcare sector is seeking 3 x ICU Registered Nurses. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing holistic and optimal quality nursing care to critically ill patients to maximize a positive outcome for the customer in line with the Company and Hospital strategic objectives.
Minimum Requirements
- Grade 12/Matric
- Relevant Degree or Diploma in Nursing
- Nursing experience in ICU
- Must be willing to fulfil a role in the unit according to the flexi-hours system and call system
Job Responsibilities
To provide quality patient care
- Providing quality basic and specialized nursing care
- Continual communication with the patient and family regarding the patient's condition
- Administering medication following the ethical, legal framework
- Review and comply with internal policies and protocols
- Ensuring quality management systems and initiatives are conducted according to the unit specification
- Advocate for the patient by motivating acuity to the case management and notifying the doctor of any limitations
Provide effective people management
- Interacting and communicating with a multi-disciplinary team
- Provide training and development to ensure personal and professional growth
- Ensure the ICU team works according to the scope of practice to ensure the correct skills mix is utilised
Provide effective cost management
- Managing all stock used according to unit-specific policies and protocols
- Control and manage staff hours leave following the company policy
Provide effective Infection Control and SHEQ
- Maintaining a safe and holistic patient environment to enforce infection control
- Promoting a safe and healthy working environment by completing SHEQ alerts and incident reports to the SHEQ Coordinator
Ensuring effective relationships with internal/external stakeholders
- Conducting in-service orientation on doctor-specific preferences
- Execute doctors' requests and prescriptions after patient rounds
- Assisting multi-disciplinary team members with the execution of their duties
- Ensuring the effective functioning of equipment and instrumentation
- Check that equipment and instrumentation are in working condition daily and report any defaults to the Unit Manager and Clinical Engineer
- Educate and supervise staff and doctors on the correct utilisation of specialised equipment and instrumentation
Ensuring effective record keeping
- Ensuring that records and accurately completed and stored following legal and ethical requirements
Key Competencies / Skills
- Strong customer orientation, team player, very energetic, and well organised
- Must be able to work under pressure in a continuously changing environment
- Strong Interpersonal skills required
- Problem-solving, analysis, and judgment
- Resilience
- Engaging diversity
- Verbal & written communication and presentation
- Drive and energy
- Excellence orientation
- Ethical behaviour
- Building relationships
- Customer responsiveness
- Organisational awareness
