Key Journaled Duties of a Staff Nurse
Patient Care & Clinical Duties:
Admission/Discharge: Handling patient admissions, transfers, and discharges.
Direct Care: Providing hygiene (bathing, mouth care), feeding, and positioning.
Technical Procedures: Administering medicines/injections, catheterization, dressings, and collecting specimens.
Monitoring: Taking and recording temperature, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure (TPR/BP).
Safety: Protecting patients from injury by using side rails and maintaining a protected environment.
Administrative & Ward Management:
Record Keeping: Writing shift reports, maintaining patient charts, and registering poisonous drugs.
Inventory Control: Indenting and checking drugs, linen, and supplies; maintaining equipment.
Reporting: Handing over/taking over charge, and reporting patient condition changes to doctors.
Skilled & Educational Duties:
Supervision: Guiding student nurses, nursing orderlies, and helping with orientation for recent staff.
Education: Providing health education to patients and families.
Rounds: Making rounds with doctors and senior nursing officers.