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
- Maintain the sterile zones.
- Ability to do the gowning procedure and scrubbing.
- Demonstrate knowledge on consent protocol.
- Ability to position patents in lateral, prone, supine, lithotomy, Trendelenburg.
- Knowledge about the disposal of infected linen, care and handling infected linen and general waste segregation and disposal in OT.
- Knowledge about the different types of sterilisation methods followed in NH and the type of sterile tape and the things to be checked before opening a sterile pack.
- Take the appropriate barcode for biopsy.
- Knowledge on methods of cleaning of OT equipment.
- Awareness of radiation safety.
- Knowledge of the system of receiving the implant from the store.
- Familiarity in operating surgical equipment.
- Assist and perform surgical asepsis.