- Check the communication book for any new instructions during every shift

- Check the assignment Register to know the assignment for the shift

- Check inventory of all equipment, and instruments as per the inventory register and inform the Team Leader/Nurse Manager in case of any discrepancies noted

- Inquire and know about the following:
- Department Census
- Admissions in the department
- Transfer in and Transfer out
- Discharge/DAMA
- Death
- Medico- legal Cases
- Details of patients undergoing special investigations/invasive procedures and or Surgery
- Details of patients requiring special considerations (Barrier Nursing Precautions, VIPs, Relatives of Employees etc.)
- Planned discharges during the shift
- Others:
- Issues related to Support Services (Diet/Laundry/Stores/Pharmacy/Maintenance/CSSD/Bio-Medical/Billing/Housekeeping etc)
- Interdepartmental lending /borrowing of equipments or consumables and drugs

- Take handover of assigned patients and receive new admission/transfer-in to the department
- Orient the patient and relative to the unit

- Carry out Nursing Assessment to have baseline data of patients assigned / received

- Inform necessary details to the Doctor on duty

- Plan, prioritize, implement and evaluate nursing care

- Carry out the instructions of the doctor and administer treatment as advised

- Attend the Consultant's rounds and update changes/special instructions in patient's record

- Carry out changes / special instructions as advised by the Consultant

- Assist for procedures as required at the bedside

- Monitor patients closely as per hospital protocol or as advised by the doctor

- Complete documentation of assessment findings, investigations done, procedures carried out and the treatment given to the patient during the shift according to hospital protocol

- Ensure that adequate supply of medicines and consumables are available with the patient

- Ensure that drugs and consumables in excess or not to be used are returned to the respective department





- Prepare the patients for surgeries / procedures as indicated

- Shift the patients to other departments if required as per Hospital Policy

- Ensure the comfort of the patient and family at all times

- Ensure replacement of medicines and consumables used from the departmental stock

- Ensure that billing of all procedures and investigations done during the shift are completed

- Complete all relevant documents

- Check the patient’s records for any changes, special orders etc. and update as needed from time to time

- Check and receive all pending investigations reports, if any

- Attend to patients needs for activities of daily living as required

- Maintain ward safety and provide safe setting.

- Report any special events during the shift to the Team Leader and or Nurse Manager

- Ensure that all admissions, transfers, Death and discharges are entered in the Admission Discharge Register

- Ensure that the shift report is completed

- Endorse the patients to the next duty assigned staff

- Maintain good interpersonal relationship with all employees, patients, families and community.

- Ensure that patient's and or family's communications/requirements are attended or communicated to the concerned department/person

- Ensure that discharged patient's unit is ready to receive new admission/transfer

- Additional Responsibilities during Night Shift:

- Arrange IP file as per checklist with numbering of sheets
- Keep the folders ready for admission
- Ensure all the procedures performed throughout the day are entered in the bedside procedures
- Indent drugs and consumables in sufficient quantity
- Check the expiry dates of the medicines and send the medicines nearing expiry to the pharmacy




Prepare/keep ready records to be maintained in the department

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- Communication Skills:

- Ability to comprehend verbal instructions given by the supervisor or head of the department / doctors.
- Ability to comprehend and communicate effectively with patients, relatives, other departments and social and or community agencies
- Ability to comprehend and communicate effectively when a telephonic message is received
- Ability to comprehend written instructions given by the Doctors and the other related departmental personnel / doctors

- Technical Skills:

- Competent to assess patients on receiving to the Ward
- Competent to handle the following situations in the Ward:

- Admissions
- Transfers- Intra-hospital and inter-facility
- Discharges from the Ward
- Care of the dead and handing over procedures including mortuary protocol
- Medico-legal cases
- Ambulance call protocol
- Assist for Procedures done at the bedside

- Training Responsibilities:
- Participates in staff educational program
- Help in orientation of new staff
- Participation in planned clinical teaching / SOP Training
- Completes Competency Assessments
- Supervise and guide Junior Staff nurses, Health Care Assistants and Housekeeping staff

- Other Skills :

- Have an affinity for teamwork.
- Able to work accurately and with minimal supervision
- Technical skills required for using and maintaining the various equipments and the computer.
- Ability to plan & organize ones work schedule effectively
- Very quick and prompt in handling patients and providing care
- Ability and willingness to work in other nursing units
- Competent to identify patients who become critical and to handle emergency situations (e.g. Code Blue)
- Competent to handle different CODES used in the hospital for emergency situations

- Emotional Maturity:

- Ability to handle & calm an emotionally sad, depressed, anxious patients and their relatives.
- Ability to calm patients who fear OT, procedures, equipment.

📌 Senior Staff Nurse (Dombivli)
🏢 Jupiter Hospital
📍 Dombivli