Incharge

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

• Ensure patient care documentation are completed as per policies and standards. 
• Demonstrate clinical competence in all aspects of patient care.
• Contribute to interdisciplinary planning and provisioning of patient care.
• Ensure compliance with all policies and procedures for medication management especially for high alert medicines, LASA and Narcotics.
• Ensure the involvement of the patient, family and significant others in patient care.

Manpower Management

• Ensure proper allocation and deployment of nursing staff as per the requirement to maintain patient safety and quality of care.
• Assist nursing leaders in resource management and budgeting by providing area specific inputs.

Collaborative Responsibility

• Communicate all necessary information to the team in timely and constructive manner
• Conduct regular meetings for allocated area to discuss and follow up on work results to ensure safe and effective care delivery.
• Conduct daily nursing round to ensure proper patient care delivery process from the staff posted in the area.

Quality Management

• Always maintain privacy and confidentiality of patient information and records.
• Follow international patient safety goals.
• Report all near miss, sentinel events and any other incidents.
• Monitor clinical and other established performance indicators to ensure ongoing quality Improvement.
• Evaluate the quality and appropriateness of care and assess the impact of nursing intervention as appropriate.
• Undertake clinical / nursing audit whenever required.
• Conduct regular audit of patient care record to ensure appropriateness, completeness and execution of orders.
• Assist nursing leaders in developing policies and procedures for the department.

Work Environment Management

• Enhance the working environment through teamwork and mutual respect for others.
• Resolve conflicts and patient care problems / issues and take appropriate decisions accordingly.
• Maintain safe and clean working environment.

Inventory Management

• Ensure proper inventory management of their allocated units
• Manage all medical equipment in their respective area and inform clinical engineering team in case of any issues.

Training and Development

• Identify training requirements for the team.
• Deliver training programs whenever required on topics as assigned by the NS.
• Ensure staff education as per the defined training policy and unit requirement.
• Upgrade knowledge as per current clinical evidences and guidelines.
• Participate and contribute in scheduled in service training programs like ACLS, BLS, PALS, NALS (If applicable), CNEs, conferences etc.,