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

Neonatal intensive care unit nurses work in a team with NICU doctors and other nurses and are directly responsible for monitoring vitals, administering medications and nutrients, and providing care and comfort to new borns.

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

• Assess Anthropometrics.
• Demonstrate knowledge about Immunisation schedule.
• Attend to Neonatal Emergencies.
• Management of emergencies like Meconium aspiration syndrome.
• Evaluate Apgar scoring neonatal reflexes.
• Awareness regarding physiological jaundice and pathological hyperbilirubinemia.
• Care for babies under phototherapy and in radiant warmer.
• Perform Blood transfusion and Oxygen therapy for new born babies.
• Demonstrate knowledge on electrolyte imbalance and nursing management.
• Drug calculations and IV therapy.
• Awareness on Peritoneal Dialysis and care of baby on HFO.
• Perform NALS during emergency situations.

Candidate Requirements