Shift Incharge

Job Responsibility

PATIENT CARE

• Overall planning of nursing care of the patient in the unit.
• Maintaining cleanliness & sanitation of the unit.
• Rendering direct care to seriously ill patients as & when situation arises.
• Taking handover from the night shift in-charge.
• Taking bed to bed rounds.
• Supervising dietary arrangement & proper serving of diet.
• Taking care of the health teaching programme to the patients & their relatives in her unit.
• Co-ordinating patient care with other team members.
• Assisting doctors at the time of their rounds.
• Specially responsible for the care of acutely ill & seriously ill patients of the unit.

WARD ADMINISTRATION

• Preparing duty roster of the staff nurses
• Checking the attendance of all nurses of the unit.
• Allocating the bed to the nurses of each shift.
• Maintaining stock of equipment, medicines & linen.
• Indenting for supplies required for the running of the unit.
• Ensuring disposal of waste, prevention of misuse & loss of articles & medicine.
• Reporting any case of indiscipline, theft or loss to the higher management.
• Coordinating the orientation programme of the new staff, students & making arrangement for continuous on-the-job training.
• Making arrangement for keeping patient belongings in a safe custody as per laid down policy of the hospital.
• Supervising, guiding & directing the work of the nurses.
• Maintaining daily census.
• Coordinating with other departments for ease of operation.
• Taking care of the practical part of the nursing training.
• Assisting to organize health teaching programme for patients & their relatives.
• Organize ward teaching programme for staff nurses & students.
• Taking care of the in service classes & nursing research programmes.
• BLS and PALS / NALS trained.
• To complete any other work assigned/ required from time to time basis.