Nurse – 2 Posts
Full time @Kenya Medical Research Institute posted 3 months ago Shortlist Email JobJob Detail
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Job ID 2975
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Offered Salary 1000
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Career Level Others
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Experience 2 Years
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Gender Both
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Industry Healthcare
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Qualifications Diploma/Degree
Job Description
Nurse – 2 Posts
- Job Type Full Time
- Qualification Diploma
- Experience
- Location Nairobi
- Job Field Medical / HealthcareÂ
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide high-quality nursing care to participants,
- Conduct participant’s assessments, monitor vital signs, and assist in the diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions.
- Obtaining informed consent and enrolment of participants into study.
- Explaining study procedures to eligible participants
- Obtains medical history and performs physical examination
- Offers individual, group and family counseling to participants and patients
- Confirms eligibility for all study participants
- Conducts protocol specific tests and procedures
- Providing project management team with regular feedback on participant recruitment.
- Provide HIV counseling, testing and lab results interpretation
- Verify quality of data by comparing abstracted data to source documents
- Responds to participant’s calls
- Administer the oral cholera vaccine and perform phlebotomy.
- Retention activities-follow up of participants in need of close monitoring and review together with visit reminders via phone calls
- Record any adverse events and notify the lead clinician of the same as per protocol
- Performs other duties as may be assigned
- Collaborate with the research team to collect, document, and report clinical data accurately.
- Administer Case Report Forms and perform quality checks
- Ensure compliance with ethical, regulatory, and clinical guidelines in all activities.
- Participate in training and capacity-building activities for clinic staff and community partners.
Vacancy Requirements:
- Diploma in Nursing   Mandatory
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in both English and Kiswahili.   Mandatory
- Training in GCP and Human subjects will be an added advantage.   Added Advantage
- Experience with current methods of epidemiology surveillance; having worked in a multidisciplinary, multi-site project will be an added advantage   Added Advantage
- Registered with the Nursing Council of Kenya   Mandatory
- Team player   Mandatory
- Excellent Communication and people skills   Mandatory
- Highly organized   Mandatory
- Ability to work without supervision   Mandatory
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