Nurse

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Reporting to	MCH Specialty Center Manager
Place of Work	MSIE Centre
Job Grade	5
Category	Clinical
Code	TBD

Job Summary

Under general supervision by the MSIE Centre Coordinator, Centre Head, Centre Manager/OPD, the incumbent performs nursing duties ensuring efficient delivery and client/patient care in accordance with accepted standard medical practice and professional codes of conduct.

Duties/Tasks

General

• 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.
• Provides pre-operative and post-operative personal and comfort care.
• Monitors patients' progress, evaluates effectiveness of nursing interventions and consults with appropriate members of healthcare team.
• Provides reproductive health/family planning education to individuals and their families.

Safe Abortion Nurse Role

• Conducts safe abortion of pregnancies upon request and/or occasioned by medical, economic, or social reasons.
• Supplies to patients various forms of pregnancy termination procedures (pills, implants, injection, MVA procedures, drainage, etc.) upon instructions by gynecologist.
• Carries out emergency treatment of pregnant women to stop symptoms such as bleeding, vomiting and nausea.
• Provides counselling on preventing unwanted pregnancies and correct use of pregnancy termination procedures.

Instrument Nurse Role

• Prepares all surgical instruments, sets and medical supplies required for operation in accordance with accepted standards.
• Assists doctors intra-operatively (as a scrub nurse, circulating nurse, etc.) and makes the instruments ready for other operations as required.
• Ensures proper receipt, storage, safekeeping, issuance and timely placement of orders of surgical instruments and medical supplies for theatre by pre-establishing re-order level and regular replenishment of enough stocks.

Operation Theatre/Scrub Nurse Role

• Prepares patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing the patients' operative areas, weighs, lifts, turns, and positions patients; shaves patients prior to operations.
• Assists in surgery by laying out instruments, setting up equipment, assisting surgical teams with gowns and gloves and passing instruments to surgeons.
• Cleans and sterilizes the operating room and instruments.
• Supervises patients' exercise routines.
• Sets up and provides leisure activities for patients.
• Accompanies patients on outside recreational activities and performs other duties related to patient care and comfort.
• Transports patients by wheelchair or stretcher for treatment or surgery.
• Carries messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments.
• Makes beds and maintains patients' rooms.

Antenatal Care Nurse Role

• 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 gynaecologist.
• Provides counselling 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.
• Administers suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas.
• Performs other procedures as directed by supervisor.

Related Duties/Tasks

• Ensures the maintenance of high-level standards and applies universal precautions to prevent infection (e.g. HIV/AIDS) from blood or other body fluids of patients.
• Accounts for all assets under his/her custody during regular stock taking and audit as and when required.
• Prepares and submits periodic reports as required.
• Maintains inventory of supplies; accounts for all assets under his/her custody during regular stock taking and audit as and when required.
• Makes an on-time report for the clinical incident happened in the center as per the guideline of MSIE.
• Performs related tasks as required.

Person Specification

Qualification Requirements

Education

• BSc/Diploma in Nursing.

Experience

• Two/four years' experience as junior nurse.

Skills, Attitudes and Attributes

• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Conscious of government, MSI and MSIE regulations.
• Ability to make logical and timely decisions.
• Counselling skill.
• Awareness of concepts and strategies of quality care.
• Pro-choice.

Required Skills

• Communication.
• Teamwork.

How to Apply

We invite candidates meeting the required qualications to download and fill the job application form from https://mariestopes.org.et/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2022/06/MSIE-Job-Application-Form.pdf and email to Humanresource@mariestopes.org.et before the closing date of this announcement on April 5, 2026.

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