Job Description
- Coordinate and conduct registered nurse, registered midwife, nursing technicians and nursing assistant orientation programs.
- Coordinate and conduct in-service sessions, workshops, training courses and CPR courses for nursing staff.
- Participates in planning, developing, and evaluating educational plans, modules, outlines, performance checklists/evaluation tools.
- Participate in reviewing existing and developing new nursing policies, procedure guidelines, and protocols and conduct awareness sessions of nursing staff.
- Observe Staff nursing practices to assess their compliance with nursing policies, procedure guidelines, and protocols and provide feedback to area HNs/CNIs accordingly.
General Responsibilities
- Conduct need assessments of orientees and nursing staff by using variety of strategic tools.
- Assessing progress of orientees/trainees and modify teaching strategies/content and or objectives accordingly.
- Incorporate principles of teaching and learning in planning, developing and implementation education programs.
- Demonstrate professionalism and act as a role model while communicating with nursing staff and other colleagues.
- Deliver competence based programs for nursing staff with an objective of retention of knowledge and skills.
- Participate in committees as assigned by the immediate supervisors such as Nursing Education Advisory Committee (NEAC) and Policy and Procedures (P & P) meetings and provide input.
- Assess and evaluate the quality of educational modules, resources and equipment required to meet the learning need of nurses.
- Do literature search to abreast with current trends, acknowledge the changes in nursing practice and in consultation with immediate supervisor, modify/develop educational modules/programs by incorporating those changes.
- Ensure that educational programs, quizzes and tools are congruent with departmental goals and objectives.
- Supervise nursing interns during internship program as and when assigned.
- Participate in nursing audits and mock drill.
- In collaboration with area CNIs, make clinical rounds to evaluate nursing orientees’/trainees’ performance, the quality of patient care and safe patient care environment.
- Prepare monthly reports on assigned staff developmental activities and submit to immediate supervisor before deadlines.
- Maintain flexibility when managing multiple roles and responsibilities.
- Promote a safe and healthy teaching/learning environment.
- Participate in personal and professional growth.
- Perform own clinical practice on patients in accordance with personal goals & objectives.
- Participate in at least 01 quality improvement project in a year.
Any other task assigned by HOD.
