Staff Nurse

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

• 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 and handover 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 patients care.
• Ensure plan of care is implemented.
• Demonstrates correct use and assembly of required equipments, instruments and appropriate cleaning of the same.

Quality Management

• Understanding of 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.
• Identify and escalate any life threatening issues, associated procedures, protocols and policy guidelines.
• 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

• Perform Cardio vascular assessment.
• Understand and demonstrate infection control guidelines, practices and bio medical waste management
• Handle cardiac monitors.
• Assess and interpret Intra Cranial Pressure and Glasgow Coma Scale.
• Haematoma management and post op care.
• Nursing management of patients on ventilator.
• Manage IV fluid calculations and drug calculations.
• Ability to take Care of Intravenous lines and Central lines,
• Perform Endotracheal and oral suctioning.
• Ability to position patients appropriately
• Knowledge about the different types of sterilisation and aseptic techniques followed in NH.
• Awareness on DVT prophylaxis and FAST HUG protocols.
• Assisting for pace maker insertion and assisting Different modes of Oxygenation.
• Interpret Arterial Blood Gas values.
• Thrombophlebitis and Nursing management.
• Perform drainage, ROMOVAC drain monitoring and intake and output documentation.
• Storage, administration and disposal of Narcotics.
• Processing patient samples for ABG, VBG, GRBS, CARDIAC SOB , ACT & PT INR on POCT devices.
• Performs Allen s test, draws arterial blood and perform Arterial Blood Gas and Venous Blood Gas analysis for Patient samples.
• Monitors and update the critical value reporting documents for all POCT reports. Informing panic value to treating consultants and document the same.

Candidate Requirements

Education: Diploma / Bachelor s degree in nursing

Registration: Valid registration in the state Nursing Council from where B. Sc. Nursing / GNM was completed.

Experience: Freshers / candidates with 1 or 2 years of experience Knowledge & Skills Required: Knowledge of nursing principles, techniques and procedures for the delivery of effective patient care. Good communication & interpersonal skills. Be proactive, punctual and empathetic N. B - The above also includes any other job assigned from time to time. I do hereby declare that the Job Responsibilities are properly explained to me during Induction/ Appraisal/ Redesignation and understood by me. I will try to deliver the best by meeting the mentioned standards.

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