The nursing department delivers quality healthcare by providing evidence-based, patient-centered care, implementing quality improvement initiatives, and prioritizing the needs and preferences of patients.
Nurses work collaboratively to ensure that patients receive the highest standard of care and achieve optimal health outcomes.
The Head Nurse provides direct and indirect care for assigned patients in various nursing units and home visits per scheduled shift.
The Head 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.
Duties include, but are not limited to, managing patients with various medical cases.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Purpose:
Perform patient assessment using appropriate, problem-focused, and age-specific assessment techniques.
Analyze the assessment data, derive nursing interventions, set priorities according to patient needs, formulate a plan of care, implement and evaluate the outcome.
Provide emotional support and measures to alleviate fear and anxiety. Assess patient and family readiness and identify learning needs.
Participate in voluntary community health activities to promote, maintain and restore health and prevent diseases.
Provide basic life support when needed.
Document all relevant data in the electronic medical record accordingly.
Administer medications, monitor desirable and undesirable effects, and intervene appropriately.
Engagement:
Recognize subtle cues to anticipate potential problems.
Assess patient and family readiness and identify learning needs.
Delivery:
Administer medications, monitor desirable and undesirable effects, and intervene appropriately.
Manage patients with infectious diseases when applicable.
Perform clerical duties when needed.
Ensure that patients are provided with appropriate nutrition.
Manage pediatric patients with infectious diseases when applicable.
Requirements:
Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma of Nursing from an accredited nursing college
Must have at least 5 years of postgraduate nursing experience
Hold and maintain a current nursing license to practice in Nigeria.
Key Skills and Attributes:
Hold computer literacy
Excellent communication and customer service
Caring, compassionate, dedicated, and professional
Ability to work under pressure
Humane, empathetic, and supportive bedside manner
Leadership and teamwork
Problem-solving and initiative
Time management and organization
Attention to detail.
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV to: humanresources@thelecc.com using the position as subject of email.
Qualifications
BA/BSc/HND , OND
Experience Required
5 - 10 years
