Responsibilities:
- Assists the nurse with basic nursing care activities such as bathing patients, turning, mobilizing and oral feeding.
- Prepares beds for admissions, and ensures requirements for each bed space such as oxygen and suction apparatus are available and in working order
- Carbonizes beds upon patient discharge, and cleans other unit equipment such as BP machines, infusion pumps, bedside lockers, drip stands, bed pans and procedure trolleys using infection control cleaning guidelines
- Responsible for cleanliness and tidiness of utility and linen rooms.
- Escorts stable patients to various diagnostic and procedure departments
- Assists the nurse to maintain patient’s bed space and the unit as a whole clean and tidy
- Assists the nurse manager in linen management. This includes sending dirty linen to laundry, receiving clean ones and maintaining linen inventory book
- Ensures used procedure packs are returned complete to CSSD.
- Performs messengerial duties within and outside the unit.
- Receives incoming calls and refers them to the appropriate persons.
- Alerts the nurse manager about dissatisfied clients, incidences and any other unusual occurrences in the unit.
Requirements:
- Minimum O ’level Certificate.
- Experience as patient attendant or care giver in an acute or tertiary health facility
- Training in Health Care Assistance and Heart Saver Training are an added advantage
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