About this role
Patient Care and Nursing Management
- Assess patients' health conditions and record vital signs, including blood pressure, pulse, temperature, respiratory rate, and oxygen saturation.
- Implement nursing care plans according to patients' clinical needs and the treating doctor's instructions.
- Provide routine nursing care, including personal hygiene, positioning, feeding assistance, and mobility support.
- Monitor patients for changes in clinical condition and promptly report abnormalities to the treating doctor and nursing in-charge.
- Assist doctors during clinical examinations, bedside procedures, and emergency interventions.
- Ensure timely admission, transfer, and discharge procedures as per hospital policy.
- Maintain patient dignity, privacy, confidentiality, and comfort at all times.
B. Medication and Treatment Administration
- Administer prescribed medications, injections, intravenous fluids, and treatments as per authorized orders and hospital protocols.
- Verify the right patient, medication, dose, route, time, documentation, and other applicable medication-safety checks.
- Monitor patients for adverse drug reactions and report and document them promptly.
- Maintain medication administration records and ensure safe handling and storage of medications.
- Perform nursing procedures within the scope of competence, authorization, and hospital policy.
C. Infection Prevention and Control
- Follow hand hygiene practices and standard precautions consistently.
- Use personal protective equipment (PPE) appropriately.
- Follow aseptic techniques during nursing procedures and dressing changes.
- Ensure proper segregation and disposal of biomedical waste as per applicable regulations.
- Follow protocols for prevention of healthcare-associated infections.
- Maintain cleanliness and disinfection of patient-care equipment and the assigned nursing area.