About this role
PATIENT CARE
- Overall planning of nursing care of the patient in the unit.
- Maintaining cleanliness & sanitation of the unit.
- Rendering direct care to seriously ill patients as & when situation arises.
- Taking handover from the night shift in-charge.
- Taking bed to bed rounds.
- Supervising dietary arrangement & proper serving of diet.
- Taking care of the health teaching programme to the patients & their relatives in her unit.
- Co-ordinating patient care with other team members.
- Assisting doctors at the time of their rounds.
- Specially responsible for the care of acutely ill & seriously ill patients of the unit.
WARD ADMINISTRATION
- Preparing duty roster of the staff nurses & student nurses.
- Checking the attendance of all nurses of the unit.
- Allocating the bed to the nurses of each shift.
- Maintaining stock of equipment, medicines & linen.
- Indenting for supplies required for the running of the unit.
- Ensuring disposal of waste, prevention of misuse & loss of articles & medicine.
- Reporting any case of indiscipline, theft or loss to the higher management.
- Coordinating the orientation programme of the new staff, students & making arrangement for continuous on-the-job training.
- Making arrangement for keeping patient belongings in a safe custody as per laid down policy of the hospital.
- Supervising, guiding & directing the work of the nurses.
- Maintaining daily census.
- Coordinating with other departments for ease of operation.
- Taking care of the practical part of the nursing training.
- Assisting to organize health teaching programme for patients & their relatives.
- Organize ward teaching programme for staff nurses & students.
- Taking care of the in service classes & nursing research programmes.