Endoscopy Nurse
Full time @Avenue Healthcare posted 3 weeks ago in Health Care Shortlist Email JobJob Detail
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Experience 3 Years
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Industry Healthcare & Medical
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Qualifications Degree Bachelor
Job Description
Job Objective/Purpose
- Provide safe and high-quality endoscopy services in line with the hospital policies and procedures.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform endoscopy procedures with endoscopists.
- Perform pre-procedure assessment, reviewing patient history and physical examination.
- Formulate a nursing care plan to address patient care goals and ensure an excellent outcome.
- Coordinate planned nursing care with other healthcare team members.
- Act as the team leader during endoscopy procedures
- Prepare the procedure room for the patient.
- Perform a pre-procedure safety checklist to ensure patient safety.
- Document patient care activities and outcomes as per policies and procedures.
- Ensure continuity of patient care during the post procedure phase with an effective handover.
- Develop promotions and publicity for the endoscopy services in collaboration with the marketing department.
- Uses equipment and departmental resources appropriately.
- Assists central scheduling with the accurate scheduling of patient appointments.
- Covers on-call schedule as assigned following departmental procedures.
- Maintains equipment, including cleaning and disinfecting according to departmental IPC procedures and processes.
- Identify problems with equipment and notifies appropriate resources for diagnosis and repair and assist with evaluation of new equipment.
- Ensure financial objectives of the Endoscopy Service are met by;
- Managing costs within budget.
- Timely and accurate billing.
- Ensuring an invoice rejection rate of < 1% by enforcing exclusions, guaranteeing the necessary pre-authorizations and proper documentation and following through with the credit control team.
- Patient satisfaction and confidentiality:
- Ensure patient satisfaction through quality of care, communication, and collection of feedback from patients as determined in the KPI using the standardized patient satisfaction tools.
- Always maintain client/patient privacy and confidentiality
- Provide Monthly reports to the line manager and senior hospital management on the performance of the endoscopy Services.
Person Specification
- BSc. Nursing or KRCHN
- BLS and ACLS certification
- Must have a valid practicing license from the Kenya Nursing council.
- At least 3 years of experience in endoscopy procedures, including Gastroscopy, Colonoscopy, ERCP and Bronchoscopy is a MUST have.
- Good Interpersonal and communication skills
- Customer focus