Job Purpose
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To assess patient health problems and needs, develop and implement nursing care plans, and maintain medical records. Administer nursing care to ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled patients.
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Job Responsibilities
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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 plan of care is implemented.
- 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
- Knowledge on the blood drawing protocols and collection of reports.
- Alert the on-call physician/surgeon/ consultant in case of any deteriorating sings or abnormal lab results (Panic Value).
- Understand and demonstrate infection control guidelines, practices and bio medical waste management
- Demonstrate knowledge on nursing care plan and its documentation.
- Ability to facilitate patient education.
- Ability to position patients appropriately
- Knowledge about the different types of sterilisation and aseptic techniques followed in NH.
- Knowledge on betadine/chlorhexidine (antiseptic)scrub bath prior to surgery.
- Administration of intra venous, intra muscular, intra dermal and subcutaneous injection.
- Perform steam inhalation, nebulisation and restrain policy.
- Assist / perform tracheostomy care and suctioning procedure.
- Ability to operate a Defibrillator.
- Ability to explain the discharge criteria as per policy.
- Management of blood and body fluids, HAZMAT spills.
- Handle central venous catheters and peripheral line.
- Knowledge on Anticoagulants and Urinary catheter care.
- 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.
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Candidate Requirements
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Education: Diploma / Bachelor’s degree in nursing
Registration: Valid registration in the state Nursing Council from where B.Sc. Nursing / GNM was completed.
Experience: Freshers / candidates with 1 or 2 years of experience
Knowledge & Skills Required: Knowledge of nursing principles, techniques and procedures for the delivery of effective patient care. Good communication & interpersonal skills. Be proactive, punctual and empathetic.
N.B – The above also includes any other job assigned from time to time.
I do hereby declare that the Job Responsibilities are properly explained to me during Induction/ Appraisal/ Redesignation and understood by me. I will try to deliver the best by meeting the mentioned standards.