Designation: Staff Nurse(Patient Care)

Onsite and Full Time

Job description

Direct Patient Care:

1. Assist in admission and discharge of the patient.

2. Maintains personal hygiene and comforts of the patient.

3. Attends to the nutritional needs of the patient along with dietitian.

4. Maintains clean and safe environment for the patients.

5. Implements and maintains ward policies and routines.

6. Co-ordinates patient care with various health team members.

7. Follows doctors rounds.

8. Performs technical task, e.g., administration of medication, assisting doctors in various medical procedures, preparing articles and the patient for medical or nursing procedures, recording vital signs, tube feeding, giving enema, bowel wash dressing, stomach wash, eye and ear care, collection and sending of specimens, pre-and post-operative care.

9. Helps doctors in various diagnosis test and treatment.

10. Maintains intake and output chart.

11. Observes change in-patients condition and records, takes necessary action and reports to the concerned authority.

12. Imparts health education to the patient and his/her family.

13. Accompanies patients sent to other departments or transferred to other institutions.

14. Maintains all the required entries in the HIS.

Ward Management:

1. Hands over and takes over the patient and ward equipment and supply.

2. Keeps the Ward neat and tidy.

3. Maintains safety of the ward equipment.

4. Prepares and checks ward supplies.

5. Assists Ward Supervisor/Sister in charge -ward in taking inventories.

6. Supervises other junior Nursing personnel working with her/him.

7. Maintains ward record and reports assigned to her/ him by the sister in charge.

8. Informs any special events during the shift to the nursing supervisor.