Staff Nurse at City of Tshwane

QUALIFYING CRITERIA

• Registration with the South African Nursing Council as a Staff Nurse
• Working experience at primary healthcare facilities
• No criminal record or dismissal for misconduct at any previous workplace
• Must undergo a criminal record check and such a person shall allow their fingerprints to be taken by the Tshwane Metro Police Department at own cost

The Staff Nurse will be responsible for rendering basic functional primary healthcare services within the statutory scope of practice parameters, as follows:

• Providing basic nursing care and treatment of patients with stable and uncomplicated health conditions in all settings
• Providing healthcare to patients with complicated health problems or unstable conditions under the supervision of a Professional Nurse
• Providing basic emergency care
• Assessing and screening health status through basic observation, interaction and measurements
• Developing nursing care plans to meet basic health and nursing needs

Managing all aspects of delegated nursing care, as follows:

• Weighing babies, children and adults
• Measuring the temperature of adults, babies and children
• Measuring blood pressure
• Testing urine
• Testing haemoglobin
• Drawing blood specimens
• Obtaining specimens (for example sputum)
• Conducting pregnancy tests
• Testing blood glucose (finger prick only)
• Conducting eye tests
• Nebulising patients
• Collecting sputum
• Taking pap smears
• Promoting health by providing relevant information
• Maintaining continuity of care through reporting and communication to caregivers and members of the healthcare team
• Obtaining the complete medical history of clients according to protocol
• Giving informal demonstrations to patients, peer groups and students
• Executing tasks with regard to the primary healthcare package of services
• Issuing already packed and labelled family planning medicine
• Administering intramuscular injections (immunisations, etc) according to prescriptions
• Providing wound care
• Providing treatment, including referral of patients to a professional nursing practitioner where needed
• Recording patient-retained and clinic-retained records
• Recording medical results in the pathology and patient record files
• Rendering basic reception tasks in the absence of the clinic clerk, for example drawing and filing client records
• Managing and dealing with uncomplicated clinic enquiries
• Providing relevant health information services to clients and/or the help desk
• Presenting group and individual education sessions to clients
• Providing relevant counselling on HIV/AIDS
• Receiving and referring patient complaints according to policy
• Updating health information displays (posters and pamphlets)
• Conducting daily data capturing on the minimum data set

REMUNERATION: R21 234,00 per month