Staff Nurse

Job Purpose

Provide care for children and adolescents, usually up to the age of 18, with life-threatening or high-acuity conditions that require constant monitoring.

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 BLS,PALS,NALS(If applicable), CNEs, conferences etc.,

Functional Area Responsibility

• Knowledge on PITU admission and discharge criteria.


• Perform anthropometric assessment.


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


• Ability to position patients appropriately


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


• Knowledge about thermoregulation and paediatric emergencies.


• Knowledge on Pathological hyperbilirubinemia and Nursing management.


• knowledge on tracheostomy care and respiratory distress syndrome.


• Usage of O2 therapy in children.


• Handle Convulsions in children.


• Awareness on play therapy and peritoneal dialysis.


• Provide care to babies on HFO.


• Ability to perform PALS on emergency situations.


• Knowledge on Age specific competency like infant, toddler, preschool, schooler, and adolescents.


• 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

Education:

Registration:

Experience:

Knowledge & Skills Required:

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I do hereby declare that the Job Responsibilities are properly explained to me during Induction/ Appraisal/ Redesignation and understood by me. I will try to deliver the best by meeting the mentioned standards