SRH Service Provider Midwives Nurse/Clinical Nurse-(BSc)
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Key Duties and Responsibilities • Provides nursing services, within defined scope of practice, to patients based on patient assessment and care planning procedures • Performs nursing interventions such as taking vital signs, applying aseptic techniques including sterile dressing, ensuring infection control, monitoring nutritional intake and conducting specimen collection • Administers medication and observes and documents therapeutic effects • Monitors patients' progress, evaluate effectiveness of nursing interventions and consults with appropriate members of healthcare team • Provides reproductive health/family planning Service to individuals and their families. • Conducts safe abortion of pregnancies upon request and/or occasioned by medical, economic, or social reasons; • Provide ANC, PNC ,Pre cervical cancer screening Services • Carries out emergency treatment of pregnant women to stop symptoms such as bleeding, vomiting and nausea; • Provides counseling on preventing unwanted pregnancies; correct use of pregnancy termination procedures; • Prepares all surgical instruments, sets and medical supplies required for operation in accordance with accepted standards, • Ensures proper receipt, storage, safe keep, issuance and timely placement of orders of instruments and medical supplies f • Cleans and sterilizes the procedure room and instruments. • Takes blood pressure, temperature and pulse of pregnant women throughout their pregnancy as part of regular follow-up; • Carries out laboratory tests of patients as part of evaluation of health conditions of pregnant women with unusual diagnosis and reports to gynecologist • Provides counseling to those pregnant women having physiological or social difficulties; • Observes or monitors pregnant women’s status and documents patient care on charts; • Administers first aid in emergency situations; • Performs other procedures as directed by supervisor • Performs related tasks as reasonably required Language Requirement: • Speaking local languages (Afan Oromo) and Familiarity with West Hararge Zone or similar socio-cultural and geographic contexts is desirable