Job Description
- Ensure all nursing staff supervised comply with the policies and procedures established by TIH; monitor staff discipline including uniforms, attendance and punctuality and overall performance.
- Periodically review department’s policies, procedures, job descriptions etc. and recommend revisions as required.
- Report incidents to senior management as necessary.
- Monitor consumption of medication and general store.
- Assign staff duties, make nursing staff duty roster, utilize present pool of staff in order to avoid necessary staff overtime.
- Implement the Ward Teaching Program (CBO) for the nursing staff in coordination with Nursing Education Services; participate in clinical teaching and staff development of nursing staff.
- Counsel and guide all nursing staff.
- Round regularly; escort special visitors on hospital rounds.
- Coordinate with other departments to ensure the efficient working of the wards (maintenance, billing, etc.).
- Ensure proper hand over of patients (bed to bed) and ward inventory in every shift. Conduct random checks and report discrepancies to the management.
- Review reports from the Nursing Shift In charge of the evening and night shifts; report all incidents to the management.
- Keep the Nursing Manager informed of any special needs of the ward under his / her charge.
- Supervise day-to-day nursing activities of the nursing staff in accordance with current guidelines and regulations of TIH
- Continually observes the general condition of patients; supervises bed-to-bed patients of staff.
- Monitor patients and ensure proper documentation is maintained and recorded on the system.
- Monitor staff to perform the following tasks:
- Hygiene care (AM care, PM care, position charge)
- Administration of medication
- Taking and documenting vital signs
- Maintaining I.O. charts
- Investigation
- I/V line and cannula care
- Dressing wounds
- Maintain inventories and make indents.
- Monitor the proper functioning of biomedical equipment and availability of supplies.
- Coordinate and communicate with consultants or medical officers related to patient care issues.
- Perform all tasks of staff at times of shortage of resources and in emergency situations.
- Perform all tasks assigned by the supervisor / head of department.