Practical Nurse - Baalback MMU

Main Role

The Registered Nurse provides nursing care through the development and implementation of nursing care plans. He/she collaborates with Physicians on a daily basis and assesses beneficiaries’ health needs. The Registered Nurse also advises beneficiaries on health promotion, maintenance and disease prevention topics.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties

Operational Roles and Responsibilities

1. Perform basic assessments on beneficiaries such as measuring pulse rates, blood pressures, temperatures and others as requested by the Physician
2. Ensure quality of care by adhering to standards set by MSS HQ
3. Protect beneficiaries and employees by maintaining a safe and clean working environment and adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration, and controlled substance regulations
4. Provide emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to beneficiaries and their families
5. Teach beneficiaries and their families to understand their medical conditions, medications, and self-care skills; answer questions in an ethical manner
6. Document beneficiary care services by charting in patient and department records
7. Record all necessary data related to beneficiaries’ care including assessment results, care interventions and medication prescriptions with accuracy and detail
8. Develop and communicate reports on overall nursing operations effectiveness and efficiency and existing and/or potential risks to MSS HQ
9. Register out medicine from the stock on a daily basis
10. Take blood when necessary with the cooperation of the adopted laboratory or the portable lab
11. Put down a program for Health promotion sessions and education
12. Refer and coordinate with the social worker in reporting any social and psychological problems he/she might find
13. Transfer the feminine problems to the midwife (when available and needed)
14. Attend and participate in related workshops, trainings and meetings
15. Provide daily, weekly or monthly reports on the adopted forms

Function Specific Experience

• Experience in reporting
• Experience in community work is preferable