Shift Incharge

Requisition Id:  7192

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.
  • Monitoring of patient care delivery process for the staff posted in the area.
  • Verify and ensure patient care documentation are completed as per policies and standards for assigned shift.
  • Ensure timely execution of all drug and non-drug order for the patients for the assigned shift.
  • Always maintain privacy and confidentiality of patient information and records.
  • 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 the patients care.
  • Contribute to interdisciplinary planning and provisioning of patient care.

Collaborative Responsibility

  • Communicate all necessary information to the team in timely and constructive manner.
  • Ensure proper allocation and deployment of nursing staff as per the requirement to maintain patient safety and quality of care.
  • 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.

Work Environment Management

  • Enhance the working environment through teamwork and mutual respect for others.
  • Resolve conflicts and patient care problems / issues and take decisions accordingly or in consultation with the NS whenever required.

Quality Management

  • Undertake Clinical / Nursing audit whenever required.
  • Follow international patient safety goals
  • Report all near miss, sentinel events and any other incidents
  • Comply with all quality standards as decided by organization for patient safety and quality of care.

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

  • Participate and contribute in scheduled in-service training programs like ACLS, BLS, PALS, NALS (if applicable) CNEs, conferences etc.,
  • Identify training needs for the staffs in the team.
  • Ensure staff working in the area attend the required clinical & non-clinical training programs.

Functional Area Responsibility

  • Ensure Dialyzer reuse protocol and anticoagulant therapy are followed.
  • Interpret Arterial Blood Gas values.
  • Perform Dialyzer Priming and Concentrate preparation.
  • Hemodynamic Monitoring.
  • Monitor during dialysis and administer medications including thrombolytics.
  • Post HD Sample collection and post Assessment with documentation.
  • Guide the patients about the care of AV fistula.
  • Handle catheter and infected patients during dialysis.
  • Monitor drug regimen and complication during HD procedures.
  • Do pre and post assessments of HD patients.
  • Prepare intake output documentation.