Job Title: Registered Nurse / Midwife
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-Time
Job Summary
- We are currently recruiting for the role of a Nurse Midwife. The Registered Nurse Midwife would be involved in monitoring the fetus during labor.
- Providing information, emotional support and reassurance to women and their partners.
Key Areas of Accountability
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- Examining and monitoring pregnant women.
- Providing information, emotional support and reassurance to women and their partners.
- Recording the vital signs (temperature, pulse respiration) and keeping accurate records of the observations made.
- Caring for and assisting women in labor.
- Monitoring and administering medication, injections and intravenous infusions during labor.
- Monitoring the fetus during labor.
- Advising about and supporting parents in the daily care of their newborn babies.
- Helping parents to cope with miscarriage, termination, stillbirth and neonatal death.
- Providing primary and specialty health care for women, including conducting Physical exams and diagnosing, treating, and managing medical conditions.
- Counseling and educating patients.
- Providing newborn care for the first 28 days.
- Providing support through peri-menopause and menopause.
- Providing pregnancy care by monitoring the health of the mother-to-be and her unborn baby.
- Provide education, counseling, and prenatal care individualized to each woman.
- Assist during labor and delivery.
- Provide follow-up care for mom and baby after delivery, including advice on issues such as breastfeeding
- Provides direct prenatal, intra-partum, postpartum and/or well women patient services and primary care
- Follows established departmental policies, procedures, and objectives, continuous quality improvement objectives, and safety, environmental, and/or infection control standards.
- Any other duties assigned by the Head Nurse or Management
Job Specification
- A Minimum of RN/post basic midwifery nursing from any accredited school of nursing or university.
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience in midwifery nursing from a reputable hospital
- Basic Life Support certificate is a MUST
- ACLS certificate would be an added advantage
- Sufficient clinical knowledge.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
HOW TO APPLY
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.
Job Features
Job Category | Nursing/Health Care Work/Frontline |