Nursing incharge

Job Description

Hiring for Nursing Incharge - Ward & Operation Theatre for Motherhood Hospital, Electronic City Bangalore Qualification - GNM /BSC/MSC Nursing Experience - Min 5 Years Job Description ; OT Incharge - Responsible for the smooth functioning of OT Ä Adherence to Nursing clinical standards. - Ensures professional handover and takeover of shift. - Understands patient & consultant requirements and plans resource deployment to meet the need. - Responsible for the OT routine, equipment and patients. - Reviews the doctor’s notes and the drug chart and acts as required - Prepares nursing care plans and renders effective bedside nursing care - Ensures medication safety and patient safety protocols are practiced. - Adheres to all safety measures involved in patient care and self-protection. - Manpower deployment - prepares duty roster; assigns nursing and anesthesia technician as per requirements. - Ensures efficient staffing, material, and equipment availability. - Assigns duty ensuring mix of experience and skill, senior and junior, per shift - Ensures nurses are competent and can handle tasks assigned to them. - Ensures nurses follow the protocols without exception. - OT Scheduling: plans following day - checks the booking register a day before surgery, notes and actions special requirements, co-ordinates with the surgeon & anesthetist; plans manpower, equipment and ensures OT is fully prepared for the specific surgery. - Responsible for ensuring additional requirement of resource, blood procurement, equipment is made available. - Checks to ensure medications, consumables, instruments and equipments are available for the surgery. - Ensures all equipment are fully functional; conducts random checks of surgical and laparoscopic instruments ensuring they are functional. - Competently handles all equipment used in patient care; ensures team is competent in usage; ensures equipment is serviceable and readily available. - Tracks re-scheduling when cancellation/ delay. - Ensures that aseptic technique is maintained strictly in OT. - Ensures strict Infection control adherence – monitors all activities. - Provide nursing services to the surgical procedure. - Strictly follows WHO surgical safety process in OT – count of instruments, consumables. - Ensures documentation for all completed surgeries is updated and accurate. - Maintains emergency stock of medications and consumables in OT. Responsibilities - Ward Incharge - Responsible for the efficient functioning of the Ward. Ä Adherence to Nursing Clinical standards: - Responsible for the Ward routine, equipment and patients. - Ensures professional handover and takeover of shift. - Coordinates closely with Admissions to plan resource deployment based on occupancy; when expected to be full, to escalate if resources are required. - Understands patient & consultant requirements and plans resource deployment to meet the need. - Ensures efficient staffing, material and equipment availability. - Assigns duty ensuring mix of experience and skill, senior and junior, per shift. - Ensures nurses are competent and can handle tasks assigned to them. - Ensures nurses follow the protocols without exception. - Responsible for the smooth room orientation on admission, stay and discharge of patient and attendants. - Assists clinicians in treating mothers and neonates. - Obtains medical history of the patient and communicates to the consulting physician. - Reviews the doctor’s notes and the drug chart and acts as required. - Ensure all investigations are carried out as advised by the doctor; reports available on time for doctor’s perusal and further advice. - Prepares nursing care plans and renders effective bedside nursing care. - Responsible for adherence to the clinical care plan, carefully observes for any adverse reactions, alerts clinician and NS in case of any situations. - Handles emergencies competently & calmly; provides guidance & decisions in a timely manner. - Advises and counsels patients in preventing illnesses affecting childbirth; precautions to be taken; reassures and instils confidence. - Ensures NS is informed of any incidents immediately. - Ensures medication safety and practices patient safety protocols. - Upholds patient rights and maintains confidentiality of patient information: medical and personal; avoids any violation by ensuring no discussion of patient identifiable information in non-secure areas. - Implements the infection control practices. - Implements NABH & Nursing Excellence standards. - Competently handles all equipment used in patient care; ensures team is competent in usage; ensures equipment is serviceable and readily available. Job Types: Full-time, Permanent Pay: ₹25,000.00 - ₹40,000.00 per month Benefits: Cell phone reimbursement Health insurance Leave encashment Life insurance Provident Fund Schedule: Day shift Morning shift Work Location: In person