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