The clinical nurse performs nursing duties ensuring efficient delivery and client/patient care in accordance with accepted standard medical practice and professional codes of conduct.

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

• Provides pre-operative and post-operative personal and comfort care

• Monitors patients' progress, evaluate effectiveness of nursing interventions and consults with appropriate members of healthcare team

• Provides reproductive health/family planning education to individuals and their families.

• Conducts safe abortion of pregnancies upon request and/or occasioned by medical, economic, or social reasons;

• Supplies to patients’ various forms of pregnancy termination procedures (pills, implants, injection, MVA procedures, drainage, etc.,) upon instructions by gynecologist; 

• 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, 

• Assists doctors intra-operatively (as a Scrub Nurse, Circulating Nurse, etc.) and makes the instruments ready for other operations as required.

• Ensures proper receipt, storage, safe keep, issuance and timely placement of orders of surgical instruments and medical supplies for theatre by pre-establishing re-order level and regular replenishment of enough stocks.

• Prepares patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing the patients' operative areas, weighs, lifts, turns, and positions patients; shaves patients prior to operations; 

• Assists in surgery by laying out instruments, setting up equipment, assisting surgical teams with gowns and gloves and passing instruments to surgeons

• Cleans and sterilizes the operating room and instruments.

• Supervises patients' exercise routines, 

• Sets up and provide leisure activities for patients, 

• Accompanies patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort

• Transports patients by wheelchair or stretcher for treatment or surgery

• Carries messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments

• Makes beds and maintains patients' rooms

• 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; 

• Administers suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas 

• Performs other procedures as directed by supervisor

• Performs related tasks as reasonably required

Job Requirements

BSc/Diploma in Midwifery/ Nursing 3 Years for Degree/ 6 Years for Diploma   directly relevant experience 

How to Apply

Interested applicants should send no-returnable applications with CV, copies of credentials, and other supporting documents within 10 calendar days of this announcement to the following address. 

Family Guidance Association of Ethiopia , AA Area Office, around AA Stadium, near to Bethezata Hospital

Family Guidance Association of Ethiopia is an equal opportunity employer and female applicants are highly encouraged to apply.