Professional Nurse
Douglas Hospital
Douglas
Primary Health Care Clinic: • Dispensing chronic medication.• Arrange referral of patients to a medical doctor or other medical facility• General health education• Assessment, diagnosis and management of:o Minor ailments, o antenatal and post natal follow up visitso immunization program,o Communicable diseases e.g. HIV and TB, measles, gastro enteritis, etco Family planning and contraceptionHospital: Emergency/ Trauma: Assessment, diagnosis and management of:• Minor lacerations and suturing;• Minor ailments; • Stabilizing bone fractures;• Spinal injury;• patients involved in motor vehicle accidents;• head trauma, multiple stab wounds, blunt force trauma;• communicable diseases;• burn wounds, • acute psychosis, • stabilizing and accompanying patients that are transported to another medical facility,• assisting medical doctor with insertion of intercostal drain and further managementMidwifery:• Managing antenatal patients,• Management of a patient in latent and active labor;• Fetal monitoring;• Managing the vaginal delivery of a neonate: full term and pre term;• identification, transfer and accompanying a high risk patient to another medical facility;• Management of Intra Uterine Death pregnancies and spontaneous abortions;• Managing post natal patients;• Neonatal nursing