Nursing Officer at Lagos Executive Cardiovascular Centre

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We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Nursing Officer

Location: Lagos

Job Summary

• The Registered Nurse provides direct and indirect care for assigned patients in various nursing units and home visits per scheduled shift.
• The Registered Nurse is primarily responsible for professional performance and safe patient care.
• The role encompasses nursing assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, evaluation, and coordination of care for patients across the healthcare continuum involving families.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

Other Duties:

• Perform patient assessment using appropriate, problemfocused, and agespecific assessment techniques.
• Analyze the assessment data, derive nursing interventions, set priorities according to patients needs, formulate a plan of care, implement and evaluate the outcome.
• Document all relevant data in the electronic medical record according to clinic standards.
• Treat patients and families with care and respect while maintaining patient privacy and confidentiality.
• Involve the patient, significant others, and health care providers in the plan of care when appropriate.
• Collaborate with other disciplines through multidisciplinary meetings and care conferences to facilitate patient care and operations.
• Attends to Home care visits when scheduled oncall shift
• Recognize subtle cues to anticipate potential problems.
• Demonstrate the required assessment and therapeutic skills.
• Implement and monitor infection control measures.
• Apply safety measures related to patient care.
• Operate all unitrequired equipment safely.
• Ensure the availability and maintenance of supplies and equipment needed for the unit and patient care.
• Accountable for the use of patients’ and the hospital’s resources.
• Accountable to the patient, the organization, the profession and self.
• Perform clerical duties when needed.
• Provide basic life support when needed.
• Administer medications, monitor desirable and undesirable effects and intervene appropriately.
• Ensure that patients are provided with appropriate nutrition.
• Manage patients with infectious diseases when applicable.
• Manage pediatric patients with infectious diseases when applicable.
• Strictly follow clinical guidelines and standard operating procedures set by the clinic management.

Patient & Family Education/Support:

• Provide emotional support and measures to alleviate fear and anxiety.
• Assess patient and family readiness and identifying learning needs.
• Lead/encourage multidisciplinary approach for patient’s discharge.
• Develop and implement the teaching plan utilizing patient education manual.
• Document patient and family education.
• Participate in voluntary community health activities to promote, maintain and restore health and prevent diseases.
• Adheres to Policies and Procedures.
• Adheres to LECC’s Code of Conduct as well as ethical standards of the field.

Customer Service Requirements:

• Must have excellent customer service skills and communication skills
• Must be able to plan and perform daily activities in an organized manner.
• Must be kind, compassionate, dedicated and patient.
• Must have the ability to handle different kinds of emotions as well as manage on the job stress.
• Must be focused, very detailed and be creative in making a decision.
• Must be physically and mentally stable to handle extended shifts as well as mental pressure and traumatic events.
• Must be able to review, analyze and respond to the different situations they encounter daily.
• Must be able to think critically in adapting to change, judging situations and taking appropriate decisions.

Professional Development:

• LECC requires all staff to keep their knowledge and skills up to date
• S/he is expected to continue to learn throughout their career at LECC through continuing professional development (CPD).
• The professional body relating to specialist areas will have information on the type of CPD to be carried out and how much should be completed each year.

Qualifications & Training

•  Candidates should possess an HND qualification.
• Hold and maintain a current nursing license to practice in Nigeria.

Work Experience:

• Must have current clinical experience in direct patient care and have worked a minimum of 2 years

Key Skills and Attributes:

•  Computer literacy
•  Excellent Communication
•  Working Under Pressure
• Humane, Empathetic and Supportive Bedside Manner
•  Leadership and Teamwork
•  Problem solving and Initiative
• Time Management and Organization
• Attention to Detail
• Knowledge and skills to provide vaccination.
• Knowledge and skills to perform minor trauma care including suturing, plaster casting, I&D, debridement etc.
• Knowledge and skills to stabilize trauma patients prior to transport to a higher level of care.

Application Closing Date
20th November, 2023.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV to: humanresources@thelecc.com using the Job Title as the subject of the email.