Nurse Practitioner

Reporting to: Deputy Nursing Superintendent

The Nurse practitioner assumes responsibilities for the care of all patients in the intensive care unit, in conjunction with the attending physician assistants’ other consultants. The practitioner provides continuous vigilance; early intervention and ongoing care with goal to decrease ICU related morbidity and mortality.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assessing the patients
• Checking chest x-ray
• Writing progress note or observations care
• Receiving patients from OT
• Shifting stable patients from ITU to Ward as per protocol
• Analyzing ABG & Correcting Electrolytes
• Checking Lab investigations & appropriate action
• Receiving unstable patients from ward and do initial assessment
• Demonstration in BLS/ ACLS/ NALS/ PALS, when patient got arrested
• Inserting CVP line & Monitoring
• Inserting Arterial line & Monitoring
• Inserting Peripheral line & Monitoring
• Inserting Foleys Catheter & checking cardiac output
• Inserting Dialysis Sheath & Monitoring
• Assisting procedures like Tracheostomy, Bronchoscopy
• Inserting Ryle’s tube & checking on Nutrition
• Monitoring of Hemodynamic
• Monitoring Hemodynamics & changing inotropes accordingly
• Weaning the patients from Mechanical Ventilation
• Intubation
• Removal of IABP
• Follow up Medication & Documentation
• Aspects on Hand Hygiene / Infection control in the ICU
• Aspect on Safety of patient in the ICU in different aspects
• NIV application & Monitoring
• Participate in the educational programs for the critical care unit personnel
• Responsible for training ICU nurses to increase their skills in treating critically ill patients
• Participate in monitoring the quality, safety and appropriateness of patient care as requested by the director or designee.
• 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.