NURSING STAFF
Handling and taking over of patient in each shift with special emphasis on responsible patients.
Admission, discharge and transfer of patients and proper recording of the date & time of such events in their ward/ unit register.
Assisting doctors in medical examination and treatment
Identifying nursing needs of the patients and implements then accordingly
Providing Bed-side care to patients as assigned to her by the nursing sister.
Attends to the nutritional needs of the patients
Maintaining personal hygiene and comfort of the patients
Performing technical tasks.
Administration of medication and oxygen etc.
Recording vital signs, including but not limited to BP, Pulse, Temperature, CVP, Respiration, Oxygenation, Input
Output charting as per the requirement of the case.
Assisting in transfusion and maintenance of intake-out-put charts.
Assisting the doctor in collection of samples in specific bottle duly signed by doctors e.g. for blood grouping and cross matching etc.
Giving oral care, sponge bath, back care as and where required
Preparation and administration of tube feeds
Application of minor dressing
Giving of the stomach wash.
Planning of position of the patient to prevent bedsores
Giving enema, bowel washes etc.
Catheterization of patients
Care of dying/dead
Information to the doctor on duty urgently about any problem of the indoor ward patient
Any of the terminally sick patient will not be left alone
Handing over of the correct dead body along with the proper death form/summary etc. to the attendants of the deceased or the police in cense of Medico legal cases.
It will be ensured by the staff nurse that no medico legal case dead body is handed over to the relations directly.
Providing clean setting for the patients
Maintenance of patients’ records.
Assisting doctors and senior nursing officers in rounds
Imparting health education to patients and the relatives
Reporting of the defective eq