Staff Nurse - Southern Suburbs, South Africa - Faircape

Faircape
Faircape
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Southern Suburbs, South Africa

2 weeks ago

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

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
    Tokai Estate in the Southern Suburbs 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.

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 inhouse 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:
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:
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
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 interperso
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