Overview

Our client within the Healthcare sector is seeking 3 x ICU Registered Nurses. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing holistic and optimal quality nursing care to critically ill patients to maximize a positive outcome for the customer in line with the Company and Hospital strategic objectives.

Minimum Requirements

• Grade 12/Matric
• Relevant Degree or Diploma in Nursing
• Nursing experience in ICU
• Must be willing to fulfil a role in the unit according to the flexi-hours system and call system

Job Responsibilities

To provide quality patient care

• Providing quality basic and specialized nursing care
• Continual communication with the patient and family regarding the patient's condition
• Administering medication following the ethical, legal framework
• Review and comply with internal policies and protocols
• Ensuring quality management systems and initiatives are conducted according to the unit specification
• Advocate for the patient by motivating acuity to the case management and notifying the doctor of any limitations

Provide effective people management

• Interacting and communicating with a multi-disciplinary team
• Provide training and development to ensure personal and professional growth
• Ensure the ICU team works according to the scope of practice to ensure the correct skills mix is utilised

Provide effective cost management

• Managing all stock used according to unit-specific policies and protocols
• Control and manage staff hours leave following the company policy

Provide effective Infection Control and SHEQ

• Maintaining a safe and holistic patient environment to enforce infection control
• Promoting a safe and healthy working environment by completing SHEQ alerts and incident reports to the SHEQ Coordinator

Ensuring effective relationships with internal/external stakeholders

• Conducting in-service orientation on doctor-specific preferences
• Execute doctors' requests and prescriptions after patient rounds
• Assisting multi-disciplinary team members with the execution of their duties
• Ensuring the effective functioning of equipment and instrumentation
• Check that equipment and instrumentation are in working condition daily and report any defaults to the Unit Manager and Clinical Engineer
• Educate and supervise staff and doctors on the correct utilisation of specialised equipment and instrumentation

Ensuring effective record keeping

• Ensuring that records and accurately completed and stored following legal and ethical requirements

Key Competencies / Skills

• Strong customer orientation, team player, very energetic, and well organised
• Must be able to work under pressure in a continuously changing environment
• Strong Interpersonal skills required
• Problem-solving, analysis, and judgment
• Resilience
• Engaging diversity
• Verbal & written communication and presentation
• Drive and energy
• Excellence orientation
• Ethical behaviour
• Building relationships
• Customer responsiveness
• Organisational awareness