Shift Incharge

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
• Provides clinical supervision of staff and ensures high quality of nursing services.

Care Delivery

• Demonstrate clinical competence in all aspects of patient care.
• Monitoring of patient care delivery process for the staff posted in the area.
• Verify and ensure patient care documentations and handover process are completed as per policies and standards for assigned shift.
• Ensure timely execution of all drug and non-drug order for the patients for the assigned shift.
• Always maintain privacy and confidentiality of patient information and records.
• Ensure compliance with all policies and procedures for medication management especially for high alert medicines, LASA and Narcotics.
• Ensure the involvement of the patient, family and significant others in the patients care.
• Contribute to interdisciplinary planning and provisioning of patient care.
• Demonstrates correct use and assembly of required equipments, instruments and appropriate cleaning of the same.

Collaborative Responsibility

• Communicate all necessary information to the team in timely and constructive manner.
• Ensure proper allocation and deployment of nursing staff as per the requirement to maintain patient safety and quality of care.
• Monitor clinical and other established performance indicators to ensure ongoing quality Improvement.
• Evaluate the quality and appropriateness of care and assess the impact of nursing intervention as appropriate.

Work Environment Management

• Enhance the working environment through teamwork and mutual respect for others.
• Resolve conflicts and patient care problems / issues and take decisions accordingly or in consultation with the NS whenever required.

Quality Management

• Undertake Clinical / Nursing audit whenever required.
• 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
• Comply with all quality standards as decided by organization for patient safety and quality of care.

Inventory Management

• Ensure proper inventory management of their allocated Units.
• Manage all medical equipment in their respective area and inform clinical engineering team in case of any issues.

Training and Development

• Participate and contribute in scheduled in-service training programs like ACLS, BLS, PALS, NALS (if applicable)CNEs, conferences etc.,
• Identify training needs for the staffs in the team.
• Provide training and demonstrate correct use and assembly of required equipments, instruments, implants and appropriate before and after care of the same.
• Ensure staff working in the area attend the required clinical & non-clinical training programs.

Functional Area Responsibility

• Assessment and preparation of patients for various interventional and non-interventional procedures.
• Reassessment before and after the procedure.
• Provide high quality care to patients undergoing cardiac procedures.

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

• 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.
• Monitoring flags and trouble shooting of  POCT equipment on daily basis, coordinating with Biomedical team, IT department and Lab POCT consultants as and when required.
• Monitors  Inter Quality control  for ABG, Cardiac triage, PT INR and Glucometers on day to day basis.
• Monitors  EQAS / PT samples and inter instrument Comparison related to POCT.
• Day to day updating documents pertaining to JCI and CAP standards.

Candidate Requirements