Key Duties and Responsibilities 

• Provides nursing services, within defined scope of practice, to patients based on patient assessment and care planning procedures

• Performs nursing interventions such as taking vital signs, applying aseptic techniques including sterile dressing, ensuring infection control, monitoring nutritional intake and conducting specimen collection

• Administers medication and observes and documents therapeutic effects

• Monitors patients' progress, evaluate effectiveness of nursing interventions and consults with appropriate members of healthcare team

• Provides reproductive health/family planning Service  to individuals and their families.

• Conducts safe abortion of pregnancies upon request and/or occasioned by medical, economic, or social reasons;

• Provide ANC, PNC ,Pre cervical cancer screening Services

• Carries out emergency treatment of pregnant women to stop symptoms such as bleeding, vomiting and nausea;

• Provides counseling on preventing unwanted pregnancies; correct use of pregnancy termination procedures; 

• Prepares all surgical instruments, sets and medical supplies required for operation in accordance with accepted standards, 

• Ensures proper receipt, storage, safe keep, issuance and timely placement of orders of instruments and medical supplies f

• Cleans and sterilizes the procedure  room and instruments.

• Takes blood pressure, temperature and pulse of pregnant women throughout their pregnancy as part of regular follow-up;

• Carries out laboratory tests of patients as part of evaluation of health conditions of pregnant women with unusual diagnosis and reports to gynecologist

• Provides counseling to those pregnant women having physiological or social difficulties;

• Observes or monitors pregnant women’s status and documents patient care on charts;

• Administers first aid in emergency situations; 

• Performs other procedures as directed by supervisor

• Performs related tasks as reasonably required

  Language Requirement: 

• Speaking local languages (Afan Oromo) and Familiarity with West Hararge Zone or similar socio-cultural and geographic contexts is desirable