Website Life Healthcare
Position Summary:
A vacancy exists for a Registered Nurse ICU Experienced, based at Life Springs Parkland Hospital, reporting to Gladys Rapoone, 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.
Key Responsibilities:
- Execute doctors requests and prescriptions after patient rounds
- Ensuring records and accurately completed and stored in accordance with legal and ethical requirements
- Ensure the ICU team works according to the scope of practice in order to ensure the correct skills mix is utilized
- Promoting a safe and healthy working environment by completing SHEQ alerts and incident reports to the SHEQ Coordinator
- Maintaining a safe and holistic patient environment in order to enforce infection control
- Control and manage staff hours leave in accordance with the company policy
- Review and comply with internal policies and protocols
- Continual communication with the patient and family with regards to the patients condition
- Assisting in multi-disciplinary team members with the execution of their duties
- Interacting and communicating with a multi-disciplinary team
- Ensuring quality management systems and initiatives are conducted according to the unit specification
- Managing all stock used according to unit specific policies and protocols
- Administering of medication in accordance to ethical, legal framework
- Provide training and development to ensure personal and professional growth
- Advocate the patient by motivating acuity to the case management and notify the doctor of any limitations
- Conducting in-service orientation on doctor specific preferences
- Providing quality basic and specialized nursing care
What you’ll have:
- Computer proficiency
- Relevant Degree or Diploma in Nursing
- Current registration with SANC
- Understanding of the private healthcare industry, its challenges and role players would be an advantage
- Influencing
- Strong Interpersonal skills required
- Building relationships
- Organisational awareness
- Verbal & written communication and presentation
- Strong customer orientation, team player, very energetic and well organized
- Nursing experience in ICU (1-2 years)
- Customer responsiveness
- Drive & energy
- Excellence orientation
- Relevant experience and technical skill to meet the critical outputs
- Ethical behavior