EHA Clinics – Recruiting Registered Nurse

EHA Clinics - Recruiting Registered Nurse

EHA Clinics – Recruiting Registered Nurse. Applications are invited from all interested but suitably qualified persons to fill the position advertised here. See below for all you need to know; the requirements, location, job description, application deadline, and how to apply.

EHA Clinics, a subsidiary of eHealth Africa, is a health care network operating across Nigeria that provides high-quality, innovative, data-driven, and technology-enabled services. EHA Clinics delivers a comprehensive range of state of the art health care services in each location, e.g, general consultations, laboratory investigations, pharmaceuticals, annual medical checks, child wellness checks, ultrasonography, and specialized services (urgent care, telemedicine, home care, dental care, and ophthalmology).

It may interest you to know that EHA Clinics is currently recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Registered Nurse

Location: Sangotedo, Lagos
Department: Nursing
Reports to: Senior Manager, Nursing Services

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. Duties include but are not limited to, managing patients with various medical cases.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

The Registered Nurse will support EHA Clinics nursing department predominantly to:

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.
Document all relevant data in the electronic medical record according to clinic standards.
Operate all unit-required 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 clinic’s resources.
Accountable to the patient, the organization, the profession, and self.
Perform clerical duties when needed.
Provide basic life support when needed.
care and operations.
Attends to Home care visits when scheduled on-call 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.
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.
Manage patients with infectious diseases when applicable.
Manage pediatric patients with infectious diseases when applicable.
Travel to patients’ homes to deliver care as required.
Strictly follow clinical guidelines and standard operating procedures set by the clinic management.
Adheres to EHA Clinics Code of Conduct and ethical standards of the field.

Job Requirements

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required to successfully perform this job:

Bachelor’s Degree OR Diploma of Nursing from an accredited nursing college, University with High Distinction (Top 10% of graduating class).
Hold and maintain a current nursing licence to practice in Nigeria.
Must have current clinical experience in direct patient care and have worked a minimum of 2 years in the last 3 years.
Must have at least 3 years of postgraduate nursing experience in an accredited University Teaching, Federal Medical Centre, or International hospital.

Key Skills and Attributes:

Hold Computer literacy
Excellent Communication
Working Under Pressure
Time Management and Organization
Attention to Detail
Knowledge and skills to perform minor trauma care including suturing, plaster casting, I&D, debridement etc.
Humane, Empathetic and Supportive Bedside Manner
Leadership and Teamwork
Problem solving and Initiative

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Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate, but can become louder at times due to group discussions or activities.
EHA Clinics is a tobacco-free environment.

Areas of Note

Professional Development:

EHA Clinics requires all staff to keep their knowledge and skills up to date
S/he is expected to continue to learn throughout their career at EHA Clinics 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.
Perform a variety of research and analysis tasks associated with the improvement of clinical care, medical diagnosis, and treatment where appropriate.
Audit of clinical practice and review of relevant literature.
Research unusual symptoms and treatment options, through consultation with physicians and other medical specialists.
Provide literature reviews and the like; review, analyze and determine the significance of a variety of diagnostic test results.
Ensure continuing education, training and development is undertaken to meet clinical governance guidelines for Continuing Professional Development and a Personal Development Plan.
Keep up to date with relevant medical research, technology, and evidence-based medical practice by attending continuing education courses and professional meetings, reading journals, etc.

Remuneration

Salary: N150,000 – N220,000 Gross Monthly.

Other Benefits:
The following benefits are available with this offer of employment:

Health Insurance: EHA Clinics will cover medical expenses for yourself, your spouse and up to two dependents. Further details are contained in the Nigeria Addendum to the EHA Clinics Employee Handbook.
Group Life Assurance: EHA Clinics provides life insurance for you as our employee. This insurance is payable in the event of your death. The effective date of coverage will be upon successful completion of your probationary period.
Group & Personal Accident: EHA Clinics provides Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance (ADD) for you as our employee. AD&D covers death by accidental means (rather than natural causes) and dismemberment. The effective date of coverage is your hire date.
Pension: EHA Clinics supports employee retirement preparation and investment by paying a 10% pension contribution on top of the statutory pension contribution of 8% that is already factored into your salary.
Annual Leave: You are entitled to 21 days paid annual leave accrued at 1.75 days/month. Employees may begin scheduling leave with their direct supervisor upon successful completion of their probationary period.

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