Job Description
Administration Department
Job Purpose
- To assist in managing and attending to health matters for staff and students at NIPA.
Reports to : Senior Nurse
Key Responsibilities:
- Identify patient care requirements by establishing a personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons able to understand the required care requirements.
- Obtain a complete medical history and do an initial assessment on the patients according to guidelines.
- Ongoing assessment of patients, updating the nursing care plan according to patient’s specific needs and execute medical orders within prescribed guidelines.
- Maintain patient confidence and protect operations by keeping information confidential.
- Ensure continuous updated patient care is documented.
- Establish a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
- Maintain safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations, calling for assistance from health care support personnel.
- Maintain nursing supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed supplies; placing and expediting orders for supplies; verifying receipt of supplies; using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results.
- Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
- Provide fundamental clinical nursing care.
- Provide detailed initial assessment of patient and accurate complete clinical history.
- Measure and record vital signs and regular observations.
- Maintain continuity among nursing teams (day vs. night shifts) by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.
- Accurate administration of patient medication and adequate record keeping.
- Protect patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.
- Ensure ideal temperature is maintained in all clinic areas.
- Maintain safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations, calling for assistance from health care support personnel.
- Assist in the preparation and transportation of patients for diagnostic procedures and referrals
- Perform any job related tasks as be assigned by the immediate supervisor
- The job duties are flexible and subject to change dependent upon operational needs.
Skills and Qualifications:
- Full Grade 12 School certificate with five ‘O’ level credits which must include Mathematics, English and Science
- Minimum Diploma in Registered Nursing
- Minimum three (3) years Proven work experience
- Excellent Interpersonal Relationship skills
- Must have a Valid Practicing Licence
- Must be Registered with the General Nursing Council of Zambia
- A specialty in midwifery is an added advantage
- Psycho-social counselling
- Adolescent sexual reproductive skills
- Demonstrate sufficient recent clinical experience in the last 12 months.
- Good knowledge of nursing principles and techniques and their relation to medical practice, material medical, sanitation and personal hygiene.
- Basic IT skills
- Proactivity
- Honest and reliable: display of high level of integrity since he/she may be in a position to take care of patient’s personal belongings.
Location : Main Campus
Method of Application
Applicants should submit their applications, attaching their Curriculum Vitae, Academic and Professional qualifications to the address below.
Applications should be addressed to:
THE REGISTRAR,
National Institute of Public Administration,
P.O Box 31990,
Dushanbe Road,
Lusaka.
Email: