Critical Care Assistant

Job Purpose

To assist physicians during catheterization procedures, angioplasties, pacemaker implantation and other cardiac procedures. The nurse closely monitors the patient's vital signs during the procedure.

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.
• Ensure plan of care is implemented.
• 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.
• 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

• Assessment and preparation of patients for various interventional and non-interventional procedures.
• Reassessment before and after the procedure.

• Understand and demonstrate infection control guidelines, practices and bio medical waste management.
• Knowledge about the different types of sterilisation and aseptic techniques followed in NH .

• Provide high quality care to patients undergoing cardiac procedures.
• Circulate or scrub for interventional procedures like cardiac catheterizations, angioplasties etc.,
• Provide care to patients before and after procedure.
• Handle emergency situations and be acquainted with BLS, ACLS and PALS.
• Function within scope of practice and professional standards of practice.
•  Utilize appropriate risk assessment tools in order to identify actual and potential problems and implement appropriate action if required.

• Awareness of radiation safety.

• Actively Participate in quality improvement projects and accreditation activities.

• 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