Staff Nurse

Job Purpose

Provide care for patients who are critically ill post surgeries. Assess patients on a regular basis and provide medication & care as per physicians instructions.

Job Responsibilities

General Responsibility

• Adhere and comply with Organization Regulations and Administrative Policies.


• Adhere and comply with policies and procedure related to patient care, infection control, patient safety and accreditation standard.

Care Delivery

• Demonstrate clinical competence in all aspects of patient care.


• Evaluate the quality and appropriateness of care and assess the impact of nursing intervention as appropriate.


• Assessment and reassessment of pain and management of pain


• Ensure compliance with all policy and procedure for medication management.


• Explain plan of care to patient and family.


• Document and handover all patients records as per policies and standards.


• Educate patient and family as required


• Ensure the involvement of the patient, family, and significant others in the patients care.


• Ensure plan of care is implemented.


• Demonstrates correct use and assembly of required equipments, instruments and appropriate cleaning of the same.

Quality Management

• Understanding of clinical and other established performance indicators to ensure ongoing quality Improvement.


• Follow international patient safety goals.


• Report all near miss, sentinel events and any other incidents.


• Identify and escalate any life threatening issues, associated procedures, protocols and policy guidelines.


• Always maintain privacy and confidentiality of patient information and records.


• Comply with all quality standards as decided by organization for patient safety and quality of care

Training and Development

• Participate and contribute in scheduled in service training programs like ACLS, BLS, PALS, NALS(If applicable), CNEs, conferences etc.,

Functional Area Responsibility

• Knowledge on drug and intra venous fluid calculations.


• Understand and demonstrate infection control guidelines, practices and bio medical waste management


• Perform Intercostal Drainage, ROMOVAC drain monitoring and documentation.


• Interpret Arterial Blood Gas values.


• Ability to position patients appropriately


• Knowledge about the different types of sterilisation and aseptic techniques followed in NH.


• Evaluate Intra Cranial Pressure and Glasgow Coma Scale.


• Handle Epidural Catheter.


• Knowledge on normal laboratory values and Panic values.


• Knowledge on Colostomy, Stapler removal and nursing care.


• Knowledge on FAST HUG Protocol.


• Assist in Intake and Output Documentation.


• Administrate, store, and dispose of Narcotics as per policy.


• Processing patient samples for ABG, VBG, GRBS, CARDIAC SOB ,ACT & PT INR on POCT devices.


• Performs Allen s test, draws arterial blood and perform Arterial Blood Gas and Venous Blood Gas analysis for Patient samples.


• Monitors and update the critical value reporting documents for all POCT reports. Informing panic value to treating consultants and document the same.

Candidate Requirements

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Experience:

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