Ward Nurse

Promotes and restores patients' health by completing the nursing process; collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members; providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families; supervising assigned team members.

·         Provide professional nursing care with an assigned unit according to established standards and procedures.

·         Provide comprehensive care to assigned patients.

·         Follows policy and delivers designated nursing interventions to assigned patients that are consistent with the documented medical plan of care.

·         Takes the nursing history, summarizes data and states nursing diagnoses / patient care needs.

·         Organize and maintain patient file and reports as per the MRD requirements in all shifts.

·         Always greet with smile to patient and companion for their well-being.

·         Be groomed always.

·         Observes and records signs, symptoms and behaviors including the physiological status of patients’ reports, assessment changes to the concerned authority.

·         Ensure smooth functioning of admission, discharge and transfer procedures and assists others with patients’ activities and care with collaborative manner.

·         Follow handover-takeover process accurately with written/online notes.

·         Ensure introduction of next shift team member to patient and patient side medication check in each shift.

·         Executes physician’s orders for all assigned patients safely and properly administers medications and treatments. Strictly adhere read back policy

·         Ensure identification safety for collection of specimens during collection and till the report informed to consultant.

·         Participate in consultant’s rounds and assist by giving relevant information based on nursing assessment/reassessment and observations.

·         Carry out routine check at each handover that all equipment’s are in working order.

·         Keep equipment’s in charging.

·         Ensure that all items used for patients inclusive of medications, surgical supplies are duly recorded and charged.

·         Ensure during internal transfer except the ordered medicine all other drug to be returned before shifting to other unit.

·         Maintain patients and accompanies safety by taking preventive measures against accidents.

·         Accurately records and reports incidents.

·         Ensure every error to be recorded.

·         Ensure strict infection control protocol and bio-waste guidelines to be followed for 24x7.

·         Ensure that daily briefing points and sign off are mandatory for day to day update.

• Responsible for safety and comfort of patients, and the health and safety of employees assigned to the respective unit.
• Ensure that all the files (record) are completely maintained.
• Ensure that proper observation records of the patient are made and necessary information imparted to the concerned authorities.
• Ensure proper handling of patient.
• Monitors vital sign and reports abnormalities.
• Ensure samples are collected and send to concerned diagnostic labs.
• To ensure that staff is taking precaution to avoid blood born infection  
• To ensure refrigerator/deep freezer temperature is maintained.
• To ensure that medical reports are generated timely.
• Any other jobs assigned by superior.

·         Should be willing to work in different assigned shifts.

·         Stretched working hours

·         Great deal with standing & walking along with bending & lifting

·         Professional hazard

·         On call duty

·         Field duty (Camps, periphery clinics)

·         Caring and compassionate nature

• Excellent teamwork and people skills
• Observational skills
• Ability to deal with emotionally charged and pressured situations
• Excellent Verbal and written communication skills
• Multi-tasking