About this role
Job Responsibilities
General Responsibility
- Adhere and comply with Organization Regulations and Administrative Policies.
- Adhere and comply with policies and procedure related to patient care, infection control, patient safety and accreditation standard.
Care Delivery
- Demonstrate clinical competence in all aspects of patient care.
- Evaluate the quality and appropriateness of care and assess the impact of nursing intervention as appropriate.
- Assessment and reassessment of pain and management of pain
- Ensure compliance with all policy and procedure for medication management.
- Explain plan of care to patient and family.
- Document all patients records as per policies and standards.
- Educate patient and family as required
- Ensure the involvement of the patient, family and significant others in the patient's care.
Quality Management
- Monitor clinical and other established performance indicators to ensure ongoing quality Improvement.
- Follow international patient safety goals.
- Report all near miss, sentinel events and any other incidents.
- Always maintain privacy and confidentiality of patient information and records.
- Comply with all quality standards as decided by organization for patient safety and quality of care
Training and Development
- Participate and contribute in scheduled in service training programs like ACLS, BLS, PALS, NALS (If applicable), CNEs, conferences etc.,
Functional Area Responsibility
- Knowledge on the blood drawing protocols and collection of reports.
- Alert the on-call physician/surgeon/ consultant in case of any deteriorating sings or abnormal lab results (Panic Value).
- Demonstrate knowledge on nursing care plan and its documentation.
- Ability to facilitate patient education.
- Knowledge on betadine/chlorhexidine (antiseptic)scrub bath prior to surgery.
- Administration of intra venous, intra muscular, intra dermal and subcutaneous injection.
- Perform steam inhalation, nebulisation and restrain policy.
- Assist / perform tracheostomy care and suctioning procedure.
- Ability to operate a Defibrillator.
- Ability to explain the discharge criteria as per policy.
- Management of blood and body fluids, HAZMAT spills.
- Handle central venous catheters and peripheral line.
- Knowledge on Anticoagulants and Urinary catheter care.