Staff Nurse

Objective

To effectively supervise the nursing procedure s performed by nursing staff , maintaining hygiene and provide remarkable services to patients and their relatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Patient Related
• Trauma nurses have basic and advanced skills in life support, including CPR and the use of a defibrillator
• Observing, recording and reporting the vital signs like blood pressure, pulse count etc of the patient
• Taking rounds and visiting patients personally daily
• Triage (assign degrees of urgency and order of treatment) to patients so those who have more critical issues get care first
• Should be informed about patient history details for processing treatment
• Taking patient pulse count, samples, temperatures, blood pressure etc
• Supervising the provision of medications offered to patients as prescribed by doctors
• Comply with all legal and safety requirements at all times
• Carrying out transfer for patients as per the treatment need
• Maintaining an infection free environment by thorough supervision and checking the patient
• Monitoring the timely medication as per prescription to the patient by the nurse
• Supervising the procedures of intravenous injections, infusion and transfusion.
• An s wering to the patient calls immediately
• Informally interacting with the patients to get their feedback
• Informing MO or doctor immediately at the time of emergency or night shift
• Attending to all medication error for timely action
• Should be aware about patient details and specifications such as patient name, treatment prescribed, ward, doctor s name, medications in real time

• Administration
• Monitoring the admission and discharge of patients
• Briefing the staff about patient treatment on shift change
• Observing the p ractic e of basic nursing care on a daily routine by the staff
• Maint e nance and checking of equipments of crush cart on a daily basis
• Preparing checklist in accordance with duties performed
• Coordinating with the auditor and MT during discharge procedure
• Checking of final documentation and sending across for MRD file process
• Administrating medical requirements of the patients
• Devising the mopping plan of floor on a daily basis
• Thorough and strict implementation of CSSD procedure like sterilization, ETO, Autoclave etc
• Checking the filing of the necessary records maintained daily
• Ordering of routine requirements on a weekly basis
• Maintaining mandatory inventory management register
• Maintaining medical record file parallelly : one for patient record and another for hospital record
• Monitoring entry of records in registers such as bed sore, mopping plan, medicine return, incidental register etc as per NABH guidelines and hospital rules.
• Mandatorily attend the trainings he/she is nominated for.
• Updating of task allocation board daily

• Staff Grooming
• Imparting knowledge to nurses for maintaining and implementing proper hygiene
• Grooming the staff with up-to date training
• Should monitor cleanliness of nursing station
• Training the new joinees and sensitizing them about the criticality of their job
• Appointing nurses for vaccination programs as per schedules from time to time

• Medical Awareness
• Monitoring the disposal of biomedical waste in an appropriate manner
• Taking regular floor rounds and visiting patients
• Assisting in rounds with doctors
• Assuring infection control practices
• Calibration of biomedical equipments like infuser pump, monitor etc
• Informing the biomedical team in case of any breakdown of machine