Nephrologist

Roles and Responsibilities

• Attend to all nephrology patients.
• Provide consultants for all nephrology referrals from other specialties.
• Supervise all dialysis procedures.
• Attend all OPD patients for nephrology consultation.
• Education and training of the medical officers, dialysis technicians and nurses working in the nephrology department.
• Plan for future expansion of the department.
• Organize patient education activities.
• Start with round in IPD & ICU along with resident doctors, senior consultant, staff nurse & monitoring the admitted patients.
• Advising resident doctors to continue / discontinue earlier prescribed medicine and advise additional treatment, if any.
• Monitoring the progress of the patient.
• Advising resident doctors for discharge of the patient & scrutinizing discharge summary.
• Management of OPD patients.
• Advising patient for investigation if required.