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Consultant Nephrology
Responsibilities
- Role Purpose: To provide specialized nephrology services through diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and long-term management of kidney diseases while ensuring high-quality patient care, supporting dialysis and renal replacement therapies, promoting cl
- Key Responsibilities
- A. Clinical Services
- Diagnose and manage patients with acute and chronic kidney diseases.
- Conduct specialist nephrology outpatient clinics.
- Provide inpatient nephrology consultations across all hospital departments.
- Manage patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), acute kidney injury (AKI), nephrotic syndrome, glomerular diseases, hypertension, electrolyte disorders, and inherited renal diseases.
- Develop individualized patient treatment plans.
- Interpret laboratory and imaging investigations relevant to renal diseases.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary care for renal patients.
- Participate in emergency nephrology services and on-call duties.
- B. Dialysis Services
- Oversee haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis services.
- Assess and prepare patients for renal replacement therapy.
- Monitor dialysis adequacy and patient outcomes.
- Manage dialysis-related complications.
- Develop dialysis treatment protocols.
- Ensure quality assurance within dialysis services.
- Collaborate in procurement and maintenance planning for dialysis equipment.
- C. Kidney Transplant Services
- Assess patients for kidney transplant eligibility.
- Participate in transplant evaluation clinics.
- Manage pre-transplant and post-transplant care.
- Monitor immunosuppressive therapy.
- Coordinate with transplant surgeons and multidisciplinary transplant teams.
- D. Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
- Promote evidence-based nephrology practice.
- Participate in clinical audits.
- Investigate adverse clinical events.
- Implement quality improvement initiatives.
- Ensure compliance with patient safety standards.
- Develop renal care pathways and clinical protocols.
- E. Teaching and Mentorship
- Train medical officers, interns, residents, and students.
- Conduct Continuing Medical Education (CME) sessions.
- Mentor junior clinicians.
- Support competency development within the renal unit.
- F. Research and Innovation
- Participate in clinical research.
- Publish scientific work where applicable.
- Promote evidence-based clinical practice.
- Introduce innovations that improve renal care services.
Requirements
- Master of Medicine in Nephrology or equivalent qualification from an institution recognized by the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council;
- Bachelor in Medicine and Surgery (MBChB.) degree or its equivalent qualification from an institution recognized by the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council;
- Registration with the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council - KMPDC).
- Valid practicing license from Kenya Medical Practitioners
- Master of Medicine in Neuro Surgery or equivalent qualification from an institution recognized by the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council;