Staff Nurse

Responsibilities:

• Admission and discharge of patient.
• Orients patients/relatives regarding unit and services.
• Assess/identifies patient’s needs and implements interventions for recovery for IPD/OPD.
• Building rapport with patients/family.
• Combating stigma and helping patients and their families to deal with it.
• Performs following nursing interventions:
• Checks and records vital signs (TPR, BP, Pain score).
• Patient care procedures like maintaining hygiene, assisting in activities of daily living, sponging, steam inhalation, dressing etc.
• Conveying behavioural observation of patients to the clinical team.
• Encouraging patients to take part in therapeutic activities.
• Compliance checks on diet.
• Records intake output chart.
• Administers intravenous fluids and medication as prescribed.
• Collecting and sending samples/specimen.
• ECG
• Tube feeding, administers enema/proctoclysis, suctioning care – if required.
• Transfusion of blood or blood products.
• Assists in CPR