JOB TITLE: Psychiatric Nurse (RPN)
JOB LOCATION: Abuja
JOB DETAILS:
- To work as part of a team of medical professionals to provide psychiatric nursing care to patients of all ages, gender, religion and disposition, while creating a safe and therapeutic environment to aid their mental stability.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
The Psychiatric Nurse provides direct and individualized nursing care to patients based on the application of scientific nursing principles. In addition to basic nursing care, responsibilities of Psychiatric Nurses include (but are not limited to):
- Assessing and planning individualized nursing care requirements for all patients.
- Developing nursing care plan based on individual patient’s needs.
- Ensuring that identified care plan is implemented and evaluated for all patients especially those within their identified groups.
- Ensuring that care given is individualized, patient-centered, evidence-based, and in collaboration with other members of the multidisciplinary team, as well as other statutory and voluntary organizations when necessary.
- The Nurse would spend extensive parts of the shift directly or in directly monitoring and evaluating patient care.
- Ensuring that the number of patients at the point of hand-over and take-over are accurate.
- Adequately care for patients in line with the nursing ethics.
- Attending multidisciplinary team meetings, the planning and supervision of case conferences regarding the assessment, care, planning, implementing and evaluating treatment of patients on the practice, giving advice on discharge suitable for patients.
Person Specification
- Must be a Registered Psychiatric Nurse
- Must be medically and physically fit.
- Must have a minimum of 3 years work experience as a Psychiatric Nurse.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should submit their Applications and CV to: [email protected] The subject of the email should be the job title- location e.g “Psychiatric Nurse- Abuja”.
Note: Failure to abide by this would lead to automatic disqualification.
Deadline: April 2, 2021
Job Features
Job Category | medical |