Job Description

SALARY WILL BE NOT A CONSTRAINT for the Right Candidate

• Responsible for complete bedside nursing care of their assigned patients.
• Carry out procedures of admission, transfer and discharge.
• Makes beds of serious patients and helps or guides staffs under her to make beds, by supplying linen
• Maintains personal hygiene and comfort of the patient
• Attends to the nutritional needs of the patient and feeds the helpless patients
• Maintains clean and safe environment for the patient
• Implements and maintains ward policies and routines.
• Co-ordinates patient care with other team members.
• Take round with the doctors when called to list new orders and see that they are carried out.
• Performs various technical tasks related to nursing care.
  • Administration of medication, i.e. tablets, injections. Infusions and transfusion on prescription, or according to standing instructions.
  • Assisting doctors in various medical and surgical diagnostic procedures by preparing patients.
  • Collecting and sending of specimens for laboratory diagnostic procedures
  • Oversee & monitor recording of vital signs, i.e. temperature, pulse, respiration and blood pressure.
  • Performing gastric lavage, administering enema and/or suppository etc.
  • Prepares patients for operations and see that the patient is sent to operation theatre with all necessary papers and medications.
  • Takes care of eyes, ears, back, bowel, bladder, perineum and breast etc.
  • Observes all patients conditions and take suitable action accordingly and / or the doctor
  • Give expert bedside nursing care to all patients
• . Attends last offices in case of a patient dying during shifts and arrange to preserve dead body in mortuary, or hand over the body with respect to concerned family members, relatives/ authorities.
• Help the ward in charge to carry out her/his work or act as ward in charge during his/ her absence.
• Maintains general cleanliness of the ward and the sanitary annexure
• Supervises the duties of supportive staffs and guides them and reports accordingly
• Writes the diet register and supervises the distribution of diet report if any, necessary
• Maintains scheduled poisonous drug registers
• Supervises nursing care and other tasks carried out by the students
• Maintains duty room trays, sterilize instruments and see that procedural trays are in readiness
• Take over from duty nurse of the previous, new and serious patients, instruments, supplies, drugs etc. and handover the same accordingly
• Maintains all records pertaining to ward/unit
  • Maintains case papers, investigation reports etc.
  • Maintains vital signs charts, intake-output charts and other special charts if necessary.
  • Takes special care of medico legal case papers and records.
  • Writes day and night orders and maintains ward statistics.
  • Enters all chargeable procedures, references etc. in patients file.
  • Checks files for every entry.
  • Enters charges of every single procedure in the patients file.
  • Stores original reports of all company or insurance patients
• Any other duties assigned by the nursing HOD from time to time.