ICU Registered Nurse

Abantu Staffing Solutions; East London; On-site; ZAR 300,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in the healthcare sector is seeking dedicated ICU Registered Nurses to provide exceptional care to critically ill patients. In this role, you will be responsible for delivering holistic nursing care, ensuring effective communication with patients and their families, and collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team. Your expertise will help maintain high standards of patient care while managing resources efficiently. If you thrive in a dynamic environment and are passionate about making a difference in patients' lives, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Must have nursing experience in ICU and be willing to work flexi-hours.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide quality patient care and administer medication ethically.
• Ensure effective communication with patients and families.
• Manage stock and staff hours according to company policy.

Skills

Customer orientation

Team player

Problem-solving

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Organisational awareness

Resilience

Education

Grade 12/Matric

Relevant Degree or Diploma in Nursing

Job description

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