Registered Nurse

SUMMARY:
Registered Nurse - Northern Cape

POSITION INFO:

Job Title: Registered Nurse

Employment Type: Full-time, permanent

Location: Kimberley. Northern Cape

Summary of Job:

To provide high-quality care and support to residents, ensuring thier health, comfort, and well-being.

Essential Experience:

• Must have experience in gerontology/geriatrics and the ageing process.
• Nursing care plans.
• Writing progress reports.
• Nursing assessments of the aged including the physically and/or mentally frail.

Competencies:

• Must be competent in the following: nursing assessments and the design of nursing care plans to enable the coordination of activities of daily living in terms of medical needs.
• Scheduling activities and resources and delivering services to residents.
• Diagnosis and (within legal constraints) treatment of illnesses.
• Medication management and control.
• Must be flexible in providing care to the older adult including home care services.
• Clinical support.
• Medication management.
• Liaising with multidisciplinary team members and effective communication with family.
• Computer literacy is essential as all nursing care is recorded electronically.

Attitude:

• Must be positive and proactive in caring for the aged and dedicated and committed to identifying needs and providing nursing care.
• Need to be observant, enthusiastic, flexible, and innovative and will also need to be patient and empathetic and understand client limitations.

Requirements:

• Matriculation
• Must be SANC registered