Serenity Castle, a Mental Health organization, is recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Mental Health Nurse
Location:Â Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
DescriptionÂ
- Patient group sessions
- Conduct thorough patient assessments and continuously monitor their condition
- Assess all identified groups of patients and new admissions to the Practice.
- To ensure that care given is individualized, and patient-centered.
- Early intervention ensures the delivery of timely appropriate care
- To orientate newly admitted patients on the principles, rules and regulations governing the unit at the point of admission and ensure that these rules are strictly adhered to by the patients.
- The Nurse will be able to conduct and interpret a Urine Drug Test for patients and clients and document the results appropriately.
- Writing clinical reports and updating care plans on EMR
- To engage in pickup of new or old clients as required
- Observe patients daily to identify, interpret, and document physical and emotional status and/or patterns, such as assaultive or suicidal behavior, and response to treatment or medication.
- Check to ensure that the number of patients at handover tallies with the number at takeover given allowance for discharged cases in the course of the day
- Ensure vital signs are checked daily.
- Work with the support workers to see to the personal hygiene of patients
- Administer medications to patients, monitor use, and document reactions; educate patients on the purpose, dosage, and side effects of medication, and explain the implications of patients’ refusal to take prescribed medication.
- Obtain medical, psychiatric, social, and family histories of new admissions; take and record vital signs; obtain lab specimens and assist physicians with physical exams.
- Schedule and arrange for special tests; develop discharge plans; maintain charts and logs; perform catheterizations and enemas; and draw blood.
- Plan, assign, and review the work of other regular nursing staff, student nurses, mental health technicians and support staff.
- Make clinical presentations during clinical meetings and during business development meetings.
- Ensure protected mealtime is properly implemented and other house routines.
- Ensure take-home medications are well dispensed for patients going on weekends or discharge.
- Perform Other duties as assigned.
Application Closing Date
15th September, 2024.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified personnel should send their CV to: [email protected] using “Mental Health Nurse” as the subject of the mail.
