Registered Nurse-ICU, Wards & OT

Job Description

• Act as a safe practitioner, demonstrating clinical excellence.
• Be responsible for the management of a ward and unit in the absence of a more senior member of staff.
• Act as an associate nurse delivering the care prescribed by Doctors.
• Attend rounds with Consultants, present the patient condition note down and implement instructions.
• To be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient s care needs as required.
• Raising of various requisitions related to treatments and Nursing procedures.
• Ensure accurate documentation care.
• Ensure effective use of evidence based care and demonstrate commitment to, and participation in, research and audit.
• Ensure the effective use of organization s resources in the delivery of patient care.
• Co-ordinate with ward secretary regarding admissions, discharges of patients and billing activities.
• Co-ordinate with other departments related to care.
• Work in accordance with the Organization, National and Local standards.
• Be responsible for effective communication with patients, careers, other disciplines and agencies.
• Work in a collaboration and co-operative manner with other health professionals.
• To participate and contribute to departmental quality initiatives.
• To be aware of departments performance and objective.
• To carryout data collection/support in data collection.
• To adhere the safety norms of hospital and follow both patient safety and staff safety rules.
• To perform any job/task as and when assigned by the superior.
• Ensure the safety and well being of patients, staff and visitors to the clinical area.
• Be responsible for the supervision and development of junior staff working within the team.
• To maintain confidentially at all times in accordance with the organization.
• To be responsible for continuing professional development of self.
• Ensure compliance by self and staff with the organization s policy on confidentially.
• To ensure self and staff maintain a constant awareness of health, welfare and safety issues affecting you, colleagues, patients and visitors, reporting and accidents or fault in line with the organization s policy.
• To fully participate in health and safety training.
• To participate in personal training and development, including the appraisal process and attend all relevant training courses as required.
• The post holder may be required to undertake other duties as required, which fall within the grading of this post, to meet the needs of this new and developing service.
• Taking care of all equipment in particular costly equipment on use with patients.

• To take over the assigned patients from the earlier shift staff nurses with relevant details of the patient
• To give mouth care and back care 4 th hourly when patient is on ventilator
• To collect samples of blood sugar, PCV electrolytes, Blood gas from arterial line
• To keep the articles ready to assist the doctor for extubation, dressing, and procedures
• To inform doctors and superiors immediately in the case of any deviation from acceptable parameters are observed in the patient
• To take assistance from seniors whenever there is difficulty in understanding a problem
• To prepare water seal drainage bottles
• To prepare post operative bed to receive postoperative patients.
• To ensure the needed equipments are in working condition before receiving the patient
• To collect lab reports and inform doctors
• To be a communicator between the patient and relatives
• To give medication to patient
• To feed the patient as per the diet
• To give sponge bath to the assigned patient
• To pack the necessary materials for sterilization and sending it to CSSD
• To check and receive items from CSSD
• To ensure the patient, patients unit kept neat and tidy all the time
• To ensure the disposal of waste and used items are done
• To give inhalation to patient
• To shift the patient to the ward with relevant records
• To inform the patient relative about the shifting for accompanying the patient during shifting.
• To participate and contribute to departmental quality initiatives
• To be aware of departments performance and objective.
• To carryout data collection/support in data collection.
• To adhere the safety norms of hospital and follow both patient safety and staff safety rules.
• To perform any work as and when assigned by the superior/HOD.

Keyskills :
nursingpatient caredocumentationdeliveryoxygenblood gaspatient safetyeffective communicationcontrolled environmentspersonal training