Enrolled Assistant Nurse (Kingston, Jamaica) - Bellevue Hospitqal

 Applications are invited from qualified persons for the abovementioned position.

Job Purpose:

Under the general directions of the Nursing team, the Enrolled Assistant Nurse is directly responsible to the nurse in charge of ward or department. The nurse in charge gives a specific assignment for patient care, taking into consideration the needs of the patient and skills of the assistant nurse. The Enrolled Assistant Nurse works within the limitation of the job description in giving care to selective patients.

Key Responsibilities:

CARE OF PATIENT

Hygiene

• Bed baths- am and pm care
• Oral hygiene
• Care of the hair
• Skin care, back care, pressure point
• Care of nails
• Care of feet
• Perineal care

Posture and Exercise

• Positioning and turning patients
• Assisting ambulatory patients
• Assist with exercise routine e.g. post optative

Nutrition

• Preparing the patients to receive his/her tray
• Feeding patients
• Assist with serving and carrying trays as necessary
• Intragastric feeding for selected patients
• Preparing and checking special diets
• Recording intakes

Elimination

• Handling bedpan and urinal
• Bedpan rounds
• Changing incontinent patients
• Tidying infants
• Simple enemata
• Collection, measuring and recording of:
• Urine
• Emesis
• Sputum
• Releasing Catheters
• Testing specimens for the albumen, sugar and acetone
• Preparing specimens for the laboratory
• Changing colostomy dressing and tidying patients

Treatments

• Administration of medication when delegated:
• Oral
• Subcutaneous-checked by nurse
• Application of compresses
• Septic dressing-simple
• Preoperative shaving and preliminary preparation of skin
• Douches
• Care of the body after death
• Preparing and supervising inhalation

Environments

• Safety
• Ventilation
• Lighting
• Cleanliness- shared by all ward nursing section, sluice room, etc.
• Cleaning and making discharge beds
• Privacy
• Barrier nursing

Observation

• Checking, reporting and recording vital signs
• Temperature, pulse, respiration
• Blood pressure

Rehabilitation

• Sharing the responsibility of the patients to the community

Care of equipment and supplies

• Sterilization of utensils, instruments and syringes
• Preparing linen for laundry
• Checking linen in and out
• Sundays and holidays- count of soiled linen
• Putting linen away
• Checking and storing patients cloths and valuables

TRANSPORTATION, MESSENGER, RECEPTIONIST

• Accompany patients to other department within and outside hospital
• Answering the telephone
• Meeting the visitors
• Errands to other departments-chart room, dispensary, etc.

Relationship

• Maintain good interpersonal relationship with the patients, visitors and staff.
• Expected to carry out procedures according to the rules of the hospital

Required Qualification and Experience:

• Diploma in Enrolled Assistant Nursing
• Registration with the Nursing Council of Jamaica
• Valid Nursing License

Applications accompanied by resumes should be submitted no later than Wednesday, January 31, 2024 to:-

Human Resource Manager,
Bellevue Hospital,

16 ½ Windward Road,
Kingston 2,

Or

Email: bvh.resumes@gmail.com.