Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Staff Nurse

Role & responsibilities

• Caring for neonates at the remote NICUs from a centralized care center
• Manage these patients and document their progress, troubleshoot ICU issues, coordinate bedside nursing care in accordance with global standards, and escalate issues to the neonatal intensivist, who also will be at the command center 24/7.
• Should be aware of ICU patients monitoring parameters like SpO2, cardiorespiratory, NIBP, Invasive BP, CVP, ventilation parameters, non-invasive ventilation parameters, CPAP/HFNC settings and others.
• Assisting or hands-on experience in procedures like CPAP/HFNC, intubation, initiating ventilation, securing central lines, and ABG sampling.
• Conducting tele rounds involving patient review, daily rounds, review of labs and radiology, drug charts, and protocol compliance.
• Liaising with the bedside team actively and providing critical care expertise in real time to augment the delivery of critical care to the NICUs
• Check-ins with regular intermittent tele rounds on sick patients and initiating appropriate actions with the help of the tele NICU nursing team in collaboration with the bedside team
• Documenting patient-level data and communication in our smartICU platform, RADAR keeping records of their health in NICU, diagnoses and documenting patients' symptoms and medical history.
• Identifying changes in the infant's symptoms and intervening in emergencies & following appropriate guidelines and schedules.
• Keeping and tracking records for vital signs like temperature, pulse, breathing, oxygenation and blood pressure and any signs of distress due to birth asphyxia and trauma, respiratory distress, apnea, aspiration, sepsis, shock etc., in critically ill infants.

• Preferred candidate profile

Qualification GNM or BSC Nursing

NRP certification and BLS must