Nursing Department
The division of nursing ensures high standards of nursing practice in the following activities:
- Nursing administration and management of nursing services
- Coordination and supervision of medical nursing services, surgical nursing services, specialized nursing services and nursing school.
- Recruitment and deployment and preceptorship of new nurses
- Build nursing staff capacity and skill development
- Coordinate and collaborate healthcare services
- Advocate for timely clinical interventions and safe care
- Assets management within units/wards/clinics /theaters..
- Develop and control the nursing budget
- Participate in hospital budget projections and cost management
- Facilitate and coordinate nursing research and innovation
- Train nursing students and other allied professionals in the clinical areas
- Determine and maintain high standards nursing practice
- Maintain discipline, professionalism and nursing ethics
- Guide top management on nursing matters
- Participate in National policy development and other activities
- Offer counseling services to patients and family
- Endo-tracheal and oral pharyngeal suction services
- Artificial feeding services
- Skilled wound management
- Activities of daily living for the incapacitated patients
- Monitor patients response to treatment and disease
- Prevent/ identify clinical complications & intervene accordingly
- Identify & report medical errors for follow up and action
- Administer therapeutic medicine
- Provide pre, Intra and post operative care to all surgical patients.