Triage Nurse

Make a lasting impact! As a Nurse with the International Rescue Committee, you’ll deliver critical care to those who need it most. Bring your skills in assessment, planning, and patient support to our team, and ensure quality healthcare delivery in a challenging environment. If you have a nursing diploma and a passion for humanitarian work, apply now and be a force for humanity!

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world’s largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities. A force for humanity, IRC employees deliver lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions. If you’re a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future.

Job Purpose/Objective

This position aims to provide holistic preventive, promotive, curative rehabilitative and palliative care services using the nursing process to meet the health needs of individual clients/patients.

Key Responsibilities

The Nurse is directly responsible to the MCH in charge and will carry out the following duties:

Assessment, planning, coordination and implementation of patient care

• Assess patients and plan for their care as appropriate
• Guide and support staff in the department to meet patient care needs
• Make orders of drugs and other supplies as necessary
• Ensure patients access specialized procedures as prescribed by clinicians/doctors/other team members
• Document and handover patients during shift change
• Attend and facilitate Continuous Medical Education and clinical audits
  

Organization of services

• Guide and supervise support staff on departmental cleanliness in absence of the In-charge
• Arrange and submit weekly/monthly unit work schedule, plan daily duties and responsibilities for support staff and leave plans to ensure adequate coverage in consultation with the facility/departmental in charge
  

Essential supplies and equipment

• Keep inventory of drugs and equipment in the department
  

Service delivery (Quality nursing services)

• Ensure that all required observations, prescribed treatment and procedures are properly carried out and documented on patient’s charts.
• Provide quality triage services documenting vital signs, identify and initiate emergency care in collaboration with the clinicians
• Document clearly patient vital signs in the patient cards, books and ensure growth monitoring charts are fully filled.
• Counsel and educate patients on identified psychosocial-economic needs
• Adhere to the hospital health and safety policies, guidelines/protocols (e.g. the use of personal protective clothing/equipment)
• Provide standard care to patients at the triage, emergency and outpatient units
• Provide growth monitoring services including updating the MCH booklet as per guidelines
• Provide health promotion services in the department
• Provide emergency services in  including referral of patients to other level of care
  

Monitoring and Evaluation

• In the Absence of EMR, ensure all MoH registers  are clearly filled and support generation of monthly report
• Write reports on services in the department as necessary through Compiling and submitting weekly/monthly HIS reports.

Key Result Areas

• Rapid assessment and prioritization of patients based on the severity of their condition to ensure they receive timely and appropriate care.

Required Qualifications:

1. Certificate or Diploma in Nursing/Midwifery/Community Health Nursing from a recognized medical training college with a minimum of 1 year in clinical practice in a busy Hospital
2. Registered by the Nursing Council of Kenya
3. Possess a valid practice license
4. Basic skills in computer applications