Staff Nurse

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 
•    Perform Cardiovascular assessment.
•    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.
•    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.