Staff Nurse

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

·         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.