Staff Nurse

5 days ago

Somerset West, South Africa Faircape Full time

**Faircape Health**, a division of the Faircape Group, owns and manages six luxury lifestyle villages with state of the art and technologically advanced Healthcare Centres at each village.
We are** **seeking an experienced* Enrolled Nurse* for our facility **Bridgewater Manor in Somerset West** to provide high-quality care to our residents in the healthcare centre.
If you would like to work for a dynamic and reputable retirement group and have a passion for care then this is the job for you. To ensure high-quality patient care, we also invest in the continuous development of our staff, which includes both internal and external training.

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Duties include but is not limited to the following:*
**Handover**
- Do morning handover according to ISBAR procedure with Duty Sister on opposite shift
- Ensure all reporting up to date for handover and all information checked when receiving handover

**Staff allocation and management**
- Allocate staff on shift according to patient needs and operational requirements and specific activities and information from the handover process
- Do changes in staff allocation throughout the shift according to changes in needs and requirements
- Performance appraisals with staff
- Promote sound relationships and motivation in team members
- Address any issues with regards to staffing in terms of performance and discipline with the assistance of HR where needed

**Medication**
- Ensure all blister packaged medication is available on the trolley and medication not prescribed anymore are removed from blister pack
- Check all scripts and cupboards for any medication not in blister packs
- Administer medication as per scope of practice under supervision of Prof Nurse under the direct and indirect supervision of Professional Nurse. Prof Nurse to sign off on schedule 5 & 6 drugs, Enrolled Nurse co signs the scheduled drug book.
- Do rounds, check for sufficient consumption and administer all medication to residents as per the scripts
- Check for any side effects of medication and adjust accordingly by phoning the doctor and arranging for new script
- Chart medication on ECP
- Manage medication change process. Phone Dr to get script, send script to pharmacy, make change son ECP and place copy on residents file

**MDT and interaction with professionals**
- Regular MDT meetings with inhouse healthcare support team
- Regular meetings with outside healthcare professionals and amend care plans and ECP upon their recommendation of specific resident

**Resident admissions and discharges**
- Assessment of patient upon request for admission
- Ensure necessary documentation is completed en sent to Clinical head for review
- Draw up person centered care plan and put on ECP
- Contact with medical doctors and families
- Organise medication for patient and follow up on scripts at discharge
- Follow up with appointments with doctors
- Draw up discharge plan and discuss with family

**Step down and clinical**
- Ensure progress reports are sent to the medical aid after it has been approved by the Unit Manager
- Measure daily the vitals and activity levels
- Follow up with MDT on patient progress and do referrals

**Catering**
- Check trays and diet list and approve
- Ensure that the Food Ambassador performs duties according to job description
- Handle all food related complaints and refer to relevant parties
- Send special instruction / changes / ad hoc to the kitchen
- Control cancellations
- Do referrals to in-house dietician
- Oversee intake and outputs and adjust care plan if necessary
- Intervene where necessary

**Clinical tasks**
- Oversee and do dressings, wound care and pressure care
- Deal with skin lesions
- Do catheter care and flushing intervention
- Do daily resident rounds and measure vitals
- Assess patients on specific areas of concern and adjust the care plan

**Administration and reporting**
Morning admin (before medication rounds):

- Log on ECP
- Check fire lists
- Check the resident list
- Sign off on diet and tray list

Daily admin during shift:
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Follow up on new scripts and phone the pharmacy to arrange
- Follow up on Dr's appointments
- Follow up on all tests (blood, urine) and receive results
- Do adjustments to medicine and care plans on ECP

Reporting:
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Daily reporting to the UM on any interventions on any interventions during the shift
- Thorough reporting during shift change
- Incident reporting
- Report IOD to HR and Unit Manager
- Complete cardex
- Timestamping on ECP
- Medication on ECP

**Emergency and deaths**
- Follow emergency plan in the case of panic button alerts.
- Act according to patient’s living will in case of emergency or resuscitation
- Phone emergency services immediately for village emergencies.
- Phone Dr of resident in case of emergency

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Qualifications *- Senior certificate and SANC registered as Enrolled Nurse
**Experience and Knowledge**:Dementia care, frail care, sub acute, palliative care, rehab, strokes
**Skills and Attributes**:Strong interpersona

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