Job Responsibilities
- Take hand over from night duties
- Carryout the medications according to standing instructions.
- Maintain personal hygiene and comfort of the patient.
- Implement and maintain ward policies & routines.
- Coordinate patient care with other team members.
- Take rounds with the doctors and carryout new orders.
- Assisting doctors in various medical & surgical diagnostic procedures.
- Prepare patients for operations.
- Attend last offices in case of a patient dying.
- Carry out admission and discharge procedures.
Ward Management
- Ups the word incharge to carryout her work or act a ward incharge in
her absence. - Medicine entering in the computer correctly, if needed retaining the medicines.
- Maintain general cleanliness of the ward.
- Supervises the duties of IV Class employees
- Write diet register and supervises the distribution of diet, and report if any necessary.
- Supervises the nursing care & other tasks carried out by the students.
- Maintain all the records.
Maintain consent form, checklist, investigation reports, vital signs charts, charts:
– Take special care of MLC papers & records.
– Write day & night orders & Maintains ward statistics.
Educational Functions
- Help in orientation of New Staff & Students.
- Extend cooperation and participate in clinical teaching.
- Provide for and demonstrate methods and procedures whenever needed.
- Participate in in-service education programmes.