Junior Staff Nurse

Job Purpose

Provide care for patients who are critically ill post surgeries. Assess patients on a regular basis and provide medication & care as per physicians’ instructions.

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

• Knowledge on drug and intra venous fluid calculations.
• Understand and demonstrate infection control guidelines, practices and bio medical waste management
• Perform Intercostal Drainage, ROMOVAC drain monitoring and documentation.
• Interpret Arterial Blood Gas values.
• Ability to position patients appropriately
• Knowledge about the different types of sterilisation and aseptic techniques followed in NH.
• Evaluate Intra Cranial Pressure and Glasgow Coma Scale.
• Handle Epidural Catheter.
• Knowledge on normal laboratory values and Panic values.
• Knowledge on Colostomy, Stapler removal and nursing care.
• Knowledge on FAST HUG Protocol.
• Assist in Intake and Output Documentation.
• Administrate, store, and dispose of Narcotics as per policy.
• 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