2x Registered Nurse | High Care | Experienced

2x Registered Nurse | High Care | Experienced

Function: Nursing

Facility: Life Fourways Hospital

Position: 2x Registered Nurse | High Care | Experienced

Introduction:

Vacancies exist for 2x Registered Nurse (High Care Experienced), based at Life Fourways Hospital, reporting to Nomaswazi Tutu, Unit Manager. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing holistic and optimal quality nursing care to critically ill patients in order to maximize a positive outcome for the customer in line with Company & Hospital strategic objectives.

Critical Outputs

To provide quality patient care by:

• Providing quality basic and specialized nursing care
• Continual communication with the patient and family regarding the patient’s condition
• Administering medication in accordance with ethical and legal frameworks
• Reviewing and complying with internal policies and protocols
• Ensuring quality management systems and initiatives are conducted according to the unit specification
• Advocating for the patient by motivating acuity to the case management and notifying the doctor of any limitations

Provide effective people management by:

• Interacting and communicating with a multi-disciplinary team
• Providing training and development to ensure personal and professional growth
• Ensuring the ICU team works according to the scope of practice to ensure the correct skills mix is utilized

Provide effective cost management by:

• Managing all stock used according to unit specific policies and protocols
• Controlling and managing staff hours leave in accordance with company policy

Provide effective Infection Control and SHEQ by:

• 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 by:

• Conducting in-service orientation on doctor specific preferences
• Executing doctor’s 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 by:

• Checking equipment and instrumentation are in working condition daily and reporting any defaults to the Unit Manager and Clinical Engineer
• Educating and supervising staff and doctors on the correct utilization of specialized equipment and instrumentation

Ensuring effective record keeping by:

• Ensuring records are accurately completed and stored in accordance with legal and ethical requirements

Requirements

• Relevant Degree or Diploma in Nursing
• Nursing experience in ICU, at least 2 years
• Strong customer orientation, team player, very energetic and well organized
• Must be able to work under pressure in a continuously changing environment
• Preferably must be willing to work night duty (rotational shift)
• Strong interpersonal skills required
• Must be willing to fulfill a role in the unit according to the flexi-hours system and call system

Competencies

• Problem-solving, analysis and judgement
• Resilience
• Engaging diversity
• Verbal & written communication and presentation
• Influencing
• Drive & energy
• Excellence orientation
• Ethical behaviour
• Building relationships
• Customer responsiveness
• Organizational awareness

Email: Fourways.Recruitment@lifehealthcare.co.za

Closing date: Monday, September 30, 2024

Internal applicants - Before making an application, you are requested to discuss your application with your line manager. External candidates will also be considered.

Life Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Thank you for your interest in this opportunity. Kindly note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Applicants who have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date of this advert should consider their application as unsuccessful.