Machakos University

Location: 1 Km from Machakos Town along Machakos–Wote road

Vision: Excellence in transformative scholarship and community service

Mission: To provide scholarship through teaching, training, research, innovation, and community service for sustainable industrial and socioeconomic transformation

Position Title: Nursing Officer III

Grade: 7/8

Reference Number: MksU/N/01/25

Number of Posts: 2

Terms of Engagement: Permanent Terms of Service

Qualifications and Requirements:

Option 1:

• Earned Bachelor's / Higher Diploma in Kenya Registered Community Health Nurse (KRCHN) or equivalent
• Three (3) years' experience in a hospital setting
• Registered by Nursing Council of Kenya
• Valid practicing license
• Computer literate

Option 2:

• Earned Diploma in Enrolled Community Nurse (ECN)
• Three (3) years' experience in a hospital setting
• Registered by Nursing Council of Kenya
• Valid practicing license
• Computer literate

Option 3:

• Earned Certificate in Enrolled Community Nurse (ECN)
• Six (6) years as an Enrolled Community Nurse Grade 5/6
• Valid practicing license

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Prepare monthly reproductive health, family planning, and nursing procedures reports
• Implement QMS in the department
• Participate in staff education and staff meetings
• Take patient samples, pulses, temperatures, and blood pressures
• Provide emotional support to patients and relatives
• Carry out technical procedures
• Maintain nursing supplies inventory
• Maintain safe and clean working environment
• Perform comprehensive physical examination
• Respond to emergency situations to save life and offer prompt treatment
• Dress wounds and injuries
• Administer drugs
• Assess and report on the needs required to support nursing services
• Maintain records on patients/clients personal and health condition/care
• Plan, implement interventions, and prepare periodic reports

• Prepare monthly reproductive health, family planning, and nursing procedures reports
• Implement QMS in the department
• Participate in staff education and staff meetings
• Take patient samples, pulses, temperatures, and blood pressures
• Provide emotional support to patients and relatives
• Carry out technical procedures
• Maintain nursing supplies inventory
• Maintain safe and clean working environment
• Perform comprehensive physical examination
• Respond to emergency situations to save life and offer prompt treatment
• Dress wounds and injuries
• Administer drugs
• Assess and report on the needs required to support nursing services
• Maintain records on patients/clients personal and health condition/care
• Plan, implement interventions, and prepare periodic reports

• Earned Bachelor's / Higher Diploma in Kenya Registered Community Health Nurse (KRCHN) or equivalent
• Three (3) years' experience in a hospital setting
• Registered by Nursing Council of Kenya
• Valid practicing license
• Computer literate
• Earned Diploma in Enrolled Community Nurse (ECN)
• Three (3) years' experience in a hospital setting
• Registered by Nursing Council of Kenya
• Valid practicing license
• Computer literate
• Earned Certificate in Enrolled Community Nurse (ECN)
• Six (6) years as an Enrolled Community Nurse Grade 5/6
• Valid practicing license