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 care for patients who have various types of blood related disorders such as leukaemia, lymphoma, sick-cell anaemia, Hodgkin’s disease and haemophilia.

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

• Assisting in Bone marrow procedures (aspiration, biopsy etc.,).
• Knowledge on narcotic policy and hazardous material management.
• Knowledge in diagnostic Procedures in Oncology (Endoscopy, MRI, CT Scan, USG, FNAC, CYTOLOGY, PAP Smear, Mammography, Fluoroscopy, Radio Isotopes).
• Handle chemotherapy drugs.
• Awareness about extravasation and it's management.
• Counsel and educate patients on body image disturbance.
• Explain the importance of consents (blood transfusion consent, chemotherapy consent, procedure consent).
• Evaluate Thrombophlebitis and its nursing management.
• Perform Isolation and barrier nursing care.
• Perform pre-operative preparation.
• Maintain crash cart, loading and dilution of emergency medications etc.,
• Storage, administration and disposal of Narcotics.

Candidate Requirements