Shift Incharge

Requisition Id: 11756

Job Purpose:

Responsible for giving specialized care to children, babies, and adolescents in the ICU. Pediatric nurses must treat and care for children with life-threatening injuries.

Job Responsibilities:

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 & student 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.

Candidate Requirements:

Pediatric nurses should be compassionate, caring, detail oriented, responsible, and sympathetic to care for ill children. They must interact with children of all ages throughout the day.
Pediatric nurses direct and supervise others, correctly and accurately assess patients' conditions, and determine whether a consultation from another physician or health care professional is needed.
Pediatric nurses should be emotionally stable since they have to deal with suffering children and babies, different types of stress, and emergencies.