KEMRI Wellcome Trust Kenya Jobs - Assistant Research Officer Vacancies

To support coordination of research studies on nursing research; working closely with study investigators to deliver high quality research.

This work focuses on examining nurses’ professional roles in management and policy development in human resources for health.

It complements a second package of work that explores how measures of quality that are more specific to nursing care might be adapted to an African context to better inform workforce policy and management decisions.

The study aims to qualitatively characterise the identity of the nursing profession and the agency of nursing in decision making roles using ethnographic methods such as interviewing, transcription and observation.

A Qualitative Research Assistant Officer is needed primarily to play key role in data collection, analysis and writing up, with support from a wider group of behavioural and epidemiological scientists.

Additionally, the assistant is expected to carry out observation at several hospitals outside Nairobi county, help plan, carry out and transcribe interviews.

The position requires a competency in qualitative methods, experience in research, and some knowledge of clinical healthcare would be useful.

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The primary responsibility will be to assist in the implementation and write up of a research project entitled “The role of nurses in the delivery of quality of care”.

Specifically, the job will entail “An exploration of how nurses, engage in policy and management at national, county and hospital levels and how the nursing profession’s identity may shape these roles and nurses’ authority”. The research will be carried out in three Kenyan county hospitals

Key Responsibilities:

For the Health Services Research Group to: