Staff Nurse

Narayana Health is headquartered in Bengaluru, India, and operates a network of hospitals in India and Overseas. Our mission is to deliver high quality, affordable healthcare services to the broader population.

For more details please refer to our website at: https://www.narayanahealth.org

Job Purpose

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.

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 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.

Quality Management

• Monitor 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.
• 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

• Demonstrate knowledge on Hypothermia protocol, Endotracheal suctioning and oral suctioning.
• Perform Drainage, ROMOVAC drain monitoring and documentation.
• ABG collection and analysis.
• Evaluate Thrombophlebitis and nursing management.
• Evaluate Intra Cranial Pressure and Glasgow Coma Scale.
• Handle Epidural Catheter.
• Knowledge on Personal Protective Equipment & Post Exposure Prophylaxis.
• Demonstrate a knowledge on activating code blue / code stroke.
• Identify Bedsore, Braden scale and Hyperglycemia.
• Care for patients on ECMO.
• Emergency drug management.

Candidate Requirements