Staff Nurse - OHC

• Delivering quality nursing care with compassion, competence and critical thinking skills in their respective areas of practice Wards, ER, OPD, Peripheral departments, ICU’s and OT.
• Demonstrating caring, comforting, qualities and communicates with an empathetically and individualistic approach.
• Ensuring the provision of safe environment in both preventive and promotive aspects for all patients, relatives and significant others.
• Maintaining interdepartmental, inter-unit coordination and communication.
• Possessing knowledge regarding the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and clinical protocols of the ward/unit.
• Interpreting the department's policies and procedures to personnel, residents, visitors, and accrediting bodies as required.
• Liaising with consultants and heads of other departments for effective implementation of patient care and minimizing errors of omission and commission.
• Maintaining relevant documents and adhering to established reporting system.
• Periodically updating knowledge on clinical areas, translating them at the bed side and participating in their continuing nursing education.
• Maintaining professional decorum at all times.
• Providing leadership and clinical decision making to all nurses and other members (secretaries, housekeeping staff etc.) of the unit.
• Ensuring adequacy of stock by indenting, maintaining the same, keeping in mind the need for lean practices.
• Maintaining records and establishing adequate reporting with accurate documentation.
• Predicting emergency situation and preparing the unit for its smooth function.
• Ensuring that all investigation reports are collected and reported on time to the concerned Physician for treatment decision.
• Reporting high alert investigation results to the sister-in-charge and seeks medical help for prompt action and record the interventions done.
• Ensuring safe transportation of the patient to diagnostic tests/other wards or units.
• Conducting an initial thorough assessment of every patient upon admission.
• Performing ongoing assessment of patients to identify needs and problems.
• Raising menu card upon admission and whenever the dietary needs alter.
• Ensuring that the paramedical services reach patients on time. For example: Physiotherapy, Dietary.
• Making keen observation for early identification of warning signs of complication.
• Participating effectively in hospital infection control policies including hand-washing, bio-medical waste management, cleaning and deep cleaning protocols, needle-stick injury protocols, spill management, prevention of surgical site infection, prevention of catheter related blood stream infection, prevention of catheter related urinary tract infection, prevention of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia, guidelines for Hospital Acquired infections (MRSA etc.).
• Practicing safe medication management principles that include drug calculation, IV therapy, drug indenting and administration, prevention of drug errors, monitoring of fridge temperature, look alike / sound alike (LASA) medications and crash cart maintenance.
• Ensuring that all he/she has undergone the BLS and overview of ACLS training, Medical Emergency Team (MET) and Earning Warning Score (EWS) training, code blue management classes.
• Providing patient safety following patient safety goals including provision of care for the vulnerable patients.
• Ensuring prompt assessment of wound site using the Braden Scale, providing appropriate treatment and the practice of complete documenting.
• Supervising non–professional staff in the cleanliness and orderliness of the ward and transportation of the patient.

Attitude and Behavior

• Possess the attitude to make patient care the primary concern.
• Seek to treat patients ethically maintaining patient’s right to dignity, privacy, autonomy and confidentiality.
• Coordinate and maintain interpersonal relationship and team spirit in a manner that best serves patient’s interest.
• Understand and follow the Hospital rules & regulations and demonstrate positive attitude when it comes to additional duties required by in the Nursing Superintendent.
• Translate hospital rules & regulations in all matters that best serves patients interest.
• Serve as a role model to the Nursing team in all his or her activities.
• Uphold the Nursing Code of Ethics of the Nursing department at PH.
• Follow the Duty Rota and plan Leave ahead with the in-charge, thereby ensuring and maintaining adequate nurse:patient ratio during every shift in accordance with hospital policy.
• Refrain from absenteeism.
• Identify role models to develop professionally.

Administration

• Must be aware of PH Mission, Vision, Scope of services, various policies and the Organogram of the Nursing Department.
• Relieve the Team Leader as and when required.
• Supervise patient diet.
• Participate in the planning, maintenance & inventory of equipment and supplies in the unit.
• Ensure that the Nursing Care protocol is followed in rendering nursing care.
• Participate in the maintenance of records & reports pertaining to the unit.
• Make written and oral reports / recommendations concerning the activities of his / her shift as required for continuity of care.
• Interpret the department's policies & procedures to personnel, residents, visitors, and accrediting bodies as required.
• Supervise non–professional staff in the cleanliness & orderliness of the ward and transportation of the patient.
• Identify and report occurrences in daily work and participates actively in identifying the root cause.
• Implement policies pertaining to patient care in the concerned unit.
• Make suggestions for improving patient care facilities.
• Contribute periodically towards updating and incorporating newer protocols.

Education

• Act on request by the Nursing Superintendent to conduct Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) classes.
• Update knowledge with current advances in treatment, care and research.
• Attend continuing educational programs des