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 and handover 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.
- Ensure plan of care is implemented.
- Demonstrates correct use and assembly of required equipments, instruments and appropriate cleaning of the same.
Quality Management
- Understanding of 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.
- Identify and escalate any life threatening issues, associated procedures, protocols and policy guidelines.
- 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
- Perform Cardio vascular assessment.
- Understand and demonstrate infection control guidelines, practices and bio medical waste management
- Handle cardiac monitors.
- Assess and interpret Intra Cranial Pressure and Glasgow Coma Scale.
- Haematoma management and post op care.
- Nursing management of patients on ventilator.
- Manage IV fluid calculations and drug calculations.
- Ability to take Care of Intravenous lines and Central lines,
- Perform Endotracheal and oral suctioning.
- Ability to position patients appropriately
- Knowledge about the different types of sterilisation and aseptic techniques followed in NH.
- Awareness on DVT prophylaxis and FAST HUG protocols.
- Assisting for pace maker insertion and assisting Different modes of Oxygenation.
- Interpret Arterial Blood Gas values.
- Thrombophlebitis and Nursing management.
- Perform drainage,ROMOVAC drain monitoring and intake and output documentation.
- Storage, administration and disposal of Narcotics.
- Processing patient samples for ABG, VBG, GRBS, CARDIAC SOB ,ACT & PT INR on POCT devices.
- Performs Allen’s test, draws arterial blood and perform Arterial Blood Gas and Venous Blood Gas analysis for Patient samples.
- Monitors and update the critical value reporting documents for all POCT reports. Informing panic value to treating consultants and document the same.
Candidate Requirements
Education: Diploma / Bachelor’s degree in nursing
Registration: Valid registration in the state Nursing Council from where B.Sc. Nursing / GNM was completed.
Experience: Freshers / candidates with 1 or 2 years of experience Knowledge & Skills Required: Knowledge of nursing principles, techniques and procedures for the delivery of effective patient care. Good communication & interpersonal skills. Be proactive, punctual and empathetic N.B – The above also includes any other job assigned from time to time.I do hereby declare that the Job Responsibilities are properly explained to me during Induction/ Appraisal/ Redesignation and understood by me. I will try to deliver the best by meeting the mentioned standards.