Job title: Professional Nurse - Obstetrics
Job Location: Gauteng, Centurion
Deadline: July 09, 2025
MAIN PURPOSE OF JOB
- The Professional Nurse, in collaboration with a multi-professional team, delivers safe, comprehensive, and quality nursing care according to their Scope of Practice regulations. They lead and coordinate nursing teams to enable optimal patient care.
KEY RESPONSIBILITY AREAS
- Deliver quality nursing care in collaboration with a multi-professional team
- Identify, prevent, and manage risks to ensure patient safety
- Facilitate a positive client experience by creating a conducive environment
- Provide accurate and comprehensive records of all nursing interventions
- Create a learning environment that builds staff competence
- Ensure that all utilised stock and equipment are accurately charted
REQUIRED EDUCATION
- Diploma leading to registration as a General Nurse OR
- 4-year Nursing Diploma or Bachelor of Nursing
DESIRED EDUCATION
- Postgraduate Advanced Diploma in Midwifery
- Postgraduate Diploma in Nursing (e.g., Critical Care, Emergency Care, Peri-operative Nursing) if placed in a specialist unit
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE
- None (Essential Minimum Experience)
REQUIRED JOB SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
- Basic life support trained (ACLS; ATLS; PALS training for specialised wards)
- Computer literate (Microsoft Office)
- Develop / modify a nursing care plan
- Infection prevention and control
- Nursing processes and procedures
- Nursing record keeping
- Patient assessment skills
- Pharmacology
- Relevant nursing legislation
- Risk identification
- Scientific nursing principles and process
Closing date: 09/07/2025