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Enrolled and Mothercraft Nurses


What the job involves

  • Assessing, planning and implementing nursing care for patients according to accepted nursing practice and standards

  • Providing interventions, treatments and therapies such as administering medications, and monitoring responses to treatments and care plans

  • Assisting Registered Nurses and other team members to coordinate and evaluate care provided

  • Promoting and assisting in health education activities for the prevention of ill health

  • Bathing, feeding, changing and settling newborn infants

  • Providing advice and training on infant care to parents of newborn infants

  • Providing emotional support to parents of newborn infants