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• Receive patients on
  admission, ensure they present a receipt for private ward, and admit in
  the correct room, admission book, and receipt book)
• Ensure clinical rooms are
  ready for use at all times; set the rooms (by dusting , making bed,
  orientation of patients on the ward, providing towel, soap tissue)
• Bathe, groom, shave, dress,
  and/or drape patients to prepare them for surgery, treatment, or
  examination
• Escort patient to and from
  theater, x-ray, lab, (both private out patients and in patients), and
  physiotherapy for in patient.
• Escort private patients to
  and from OPD
• Take lab samples to the lab,
  and pick results
• Collect drugs from pharmacy
• Assist patient during
  discharge (ensure they have all their medication) and private belongings
• Observe and check patients so
  that they do not take hospital property with them, on discharge
• Generally, provide assistance
  with such tasks as: patient dressing, Toileting assistance and catheter
  care, Bowel and bladder care, Taking vital signs (blood pressure, pulse,
  etc), Helping patients walk, assisting with range-of-motion exercises,
  Helping wheelchair-bound patients using safe patient handling devices,
  Turning and positioning patients regularly, Reporting all changes to the
  nurse in-charge, safety awareness, Observing, reporting and documentation
  and Post-mortem care
• Perform any other duties that
  may reasonably be expected from the immediate supervisor

• Admitted patients assisted
  through registration
• Patients facilities (rooms),
  drugs and other requirements set up
• Patients assisted to perform
  the most basic daily tasks/motion exercises
• Discharged patients assisted
  through exit process

• The applicants should be
  Certified Nursing Assistants (CNA), Registered (RNA), or Licensed
  (LNA)   
• Completion of a state tested
  and approved Nursing Assistants (STNA) Course
• Registration with the Uganda
  Nurses and Midwives Council (UNMC)   
  
• A minimum of two years’
  experience as a Nursing Aide/Assistant   
  
• Working knowledge of working
  with physiotherapeutic gadgets
• Past experience of working in
  a health setting   
• Experience of working with
  Children
• Basic principles of nursing
  and complete supervised clinical work course

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