UNIVERSITY HEALTH SERVICES

Nursing Unit

This section of the main sickbay is headed by a Chief Nursing Officer. It has trained and qualified nurses, with some specializing in various fields, e.g. a trained community nurse, trained counselors, three Ophthalmic, five Community Health officers, two psychiatric nurses and five trained in family planning .There are two Chief Nursing Officers, seven Assistant Chief Nursing Officers, seven Principal Nursing Offices, two Senior Nursing Officers and two Nursing Officers.

Other staff on this section of the health team are cleaners, attendants, care-takers, drivers and the medical records section.

Objectives

• To have an efficient and effective service delivery at an optimal level in order to eleviate the suffering of our patients who often times have to scount around looking for drugs and materials for their treatment.
  
• To have adequacy and availability of materials to give physical and psychological relief to both our patients and health service providers.
  

1. General Nursing
   
2. Community Nursing
   
3. Ophthalmic Nursing
   
4. Orthopedic Nursing
   
5. Psychiatric Nursing
   
6. Midwives with family planning providers
   
7. 5 Medical Record clerks
   
8. 4 Clerical Officers
   
9. 12 Clinical Attendants
   
10. 6 Ambulance Drivers making a total of 50 staff under the Unit.
    
    The number may appear large! But they are all working three shifts, meaning morning, afternoon, and night shifts. The unit comprises of the following sections or subunits:
    

    1st Subunit
    Antenatal clinic and Child Welfare – Monday to Friday

    1. Booking – pregnant women – senior staff
       
    2. Booking pregnant women – junior staff
       
    3. Booking pregnant women married students
       
    4. Family planning clinic to all above
       
    5. Ophthalmic Nursing care

    2nd Subunit
    Opthalmic Nursing care - Daily, Monday – Friday

    3rd Subunit
    Treatment rooms

    1. Senior staff and junior staff, family and student treatment rooms operate daily – Monday – Sunday.
    2. Cappa House and Tuberculosis Control Unit: Monday – Sunday

    4th Subunit

    Emergency room with 4 beds. There is also 4-bed section called Cappa House which was in operation for a while but now put on hold because of poor facilities such as lighting, lack of water supply and shortage of manpower.

    5th Subunit

    Dressing Room

    6th Subunit
    Tuberculosis clinic:

    This unit is relatively new. It initially started as an embulatory, but now fully equipped, however, it still needs to be upgraded in terms of manpower training and additional equipment.
    As mentioned earlier the services of this health centre goes beyond the University community, but Samaru and its environs. Therefore we should see it as community based Tuberculosis Centre.