Nurse Counsellor at MDH Bukoba _ August 2023

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Counseling patients with regard to HIV diagnosis, management of medications, adherence to clinic visits, psychosocial issues, and basic health self-care.
2. Counselingandeducatingfamilymembersandcaregiverstopromotesecondary prevention of HIV infection, to improve the care of patients with HIV, and to strengthen social support networks of patients.
3. Educating patients in all aspects of HIV disease, treatment management, prevention as well as basic health lifestyles.
4. Ensuring that patients receive appropriate clinical care during a clinic visit, including scheduled or unscheduled physician examination and laboratory test.
5. Adhering to nursing ethics as punctuality and cleanliness etc.
6. Accurate and complete documentation of patient information and patient encounters in the patient medical record.
7. Assisting patients to connect with other resources through the referral network.
8. Assisting the physician in the provision of clinical care for patients.
9. Performing any other duty as assigned by the nurse supervisor, site manager and OPD nurse officer in-charge.

Requirements: Education, Work experience and Skills:

1. At least a Bachelor Degree or Diploma in Nursing.
2. At least three (3) years’ experience in HIV/AIDS care and treatment services