Maternity Nurse at Ruben Centre

Job Description

Reports to: Clinic Administrator 

Duty Station: Ruben Centre clinic, Nairobi

Key Responsibilities

• Providing full focused antenatal care, including counseling and screening tests in the hospital. 
• Developing, assessing and evaluating individual programs of care.
• Diagnosing, monitoring, and examining mothers during pregnancy and in labor.
• Identifying high risk pregnancies and making referral to clinicians and other medical specialist.
• Arranging and providing parenting and health education for the mother, her partner and family members. 
• Responsible for the delivery of the mother, ensuring the safety of both the mother and child. 
• Offering support and advice following events such as miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal abnormality and neonatal death. 
• Supervising and assisting mothers in labor, monitoring labor using the partograph and writing of nursing care plans.
• The clinical nurse will prepare for and assist the doctors during the rounds and whenever required.
• Ensure that all required observations, prescribed treatment and procedures are properly carried out and documented on patient’s charts.
• Ensure that the birth Registration of babies is carried out promptly before discharge of both mother and baby. 
• Escort patient to other referral hospital when necessary. 
• Compile and submit quarterly inventory return/requisition of all drugs and supplies.
• Compile and submit monthly reports.
• Maintain equipment’s in good condition and submit regular inventory report of the same.
• Maintain drug registers and drug consumption within the ward level. 
• Ensure that all admissions, discharges, transfers and deaths are properly recorded as they occur. 
• Carry out any other additional duties as may be assigned by the supervisor.

Required Qualifications:

• Kenya Registered Community Health Nurse (KRCHN) and be registered by the nursing council. At least one year experience working in a busy maternity unit and 1 year in general nursing. Life support Skills on obstetric and neonatal care.(ALSO/EMOC)

Deadline: 3rd May 2018