Ward Nursing Incharge Job Description

- Clinical Supervision: Supervise nursing care, patient assessment, medication, procedures, and emergency response.
- Staffing: Prepare duty rosters, allocate staff, monitor attendance, workload, and competency.
- Patient Safety: Ensure fall prevention, medication safety, identification, handover, and incident reporting.
- Documentation: Maintain accurate nursing records, charts, care plans, and shift handovers.
- Infection Prevention: Ensure hand hygiene, PPE, biomedical waste segregation, isolation, and aseptic practices.
- Quality & NABH: Implement hospital policies, SOPs, audits, indicators, corrective actions, and NABH standards.
- Coordination: Coordinate with doctors, other departments, patients/attendants, and hospital management for smooth ward functioning.

Daily Monitoring Responsibilities

The Ward Nursing Incharge should routinely monitor:

- Patient census and bed occupancy




- Nursing manpower and staff allocation
- High-risk/high-dependency patients
- Medication administration and medication errors
- Patient identification compliance
- Fall-risk and pressure-injury-risk patients
- Infection-control and hand-hygiene compliance
- Nursing documentation
- Emergency trolley/Crash Cart readiness
- Medical equipment functionality
- Ward cleanliness and environmental safety
- Consumables, linen, and stock availability
- Patient/attendant complaints
- Incident/near-miss reporting
- Shift handover quality

Qualification

- B.Sc. Nursing / Post Basic B.Sc. Nursing / GNM from a recognized institution.
- Valid registration with the applicable State Nursing Council.
- Relevant clinical nursing experience.

📌 Nursing Incharge - Ward (Pune)
🏢 INAMDAR MULTISPECIALITY HOSPITAL
📍 Pune