Enrolled Nurse

SUMMARY:
Our client within the NGO Sector is looking for Enrolled Nurses in the uMgungundlovu District (3 Month Contract)

POSITION INFO:

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Grade 12
• Certificate in Enrolled Nursing
• Current Registration with SANC 
• HIV/ AIDS Counselling Certificate (other courses are an advantage)
• Minimum 1 - 2 years’ experience (excluding practical’s)
• Valid Drivers Licence (an advantage)
• Available immediately 

 Job Description:

• Link patients that tested positive in the community and facility into the facility for care and treatment
• Track and trace defaulting (early missed, late, unconfirmed LTFU) patients
• Facilitate data flow to outreach teams and map community outreach accordingly
• Provide health education

• Demand creation in the community:
• Testing
• Treatment
• Differentiated care modalities
• Health campaigns / wellness days

• Identify hotspots for testing campaigns
• Stakeholder engagement
• Attend and represent facility at community fora – WAC and War rooms

 Tasks / Activities:

• Linking positive clients into care
  • Same day Initiation
    • coordinate a “handshake handover” to Clinician for treatment for all patients that have tested positive in the community and in the facility
    • If not ready for linkage, record in linkage register for follow up
    • Daily - draw a list of patients initiated onto treatment from linkage register
    • Review 7 day follow up - Follow up with any patients that had identified clinical issue/reason that they have not been attended to at the clinic
    • Review linkage register for tested but not initiated and send reminder for initiation

• Tracing LTFU
  • Draw patient list of LTF (early missed, late, ULTFU)
  • Call each patient 3 x over 3 days

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