Job Purpose

To manage patients either preparing for or recovering from a bone marrow transplant. BMT patients are highly immunosuppressed and very susceptible to infection and require specialized medications.

Responsibilities

General Responsibility

- Adhere and comply with Organization Regulations and Administrative Policies.
- Adhere and comply with policies and procedure related to patient care, infection control, patient safety and accreditation standard.

Care Delivery

- Demonstrate clinical competence in all aspects of patient care.
- Evaluate the quality and appropriateness of care and assess the impact of nursing intervention as appropriate.
- Assessment and reassessment of pain and management of pain.
- Ensure compliance with all policy and procedure for medication management.
- Explain plan of care to patient and family.
- Document all patient records as per policies and standards.
- Educate patient and family as required.
- Ensure the involvement of the patient, family and significant others in the patient's care.
- Assist in cannula insertion.
- Support staff nurses in handling central lines and ensuring infection-control precautions.
- Oversee patient allocation and maintain patient detail records.

Quality Management

- Monitor clinical and other established performance indicators to ensure ongoing quality improvement.
- Follow international patient safety goals.
- Report all near misses, sentinel events and any other incidents.
- Always maintain privacy and confidentiality of patient information and records.




- Comply with all quality standards as decided by organization for patient safety and quality of care.

Training and Development

- Participate and contribute in scheduled in-service training programs like ACLS, BLS, PALS, NALS (If applicable), CNEs, conferences, etc.

Functional Area Responsibility

- Blood transfusion and nursing management.
- Demonstrate knowledge on GRBS and normal/critical value.
- Administration, storage and disposal of narcotics as per policy.
- Create awareness regarding Personal Protective Equipment and Post-Exposure Prophylaxis.
- Early detection of cancer and its prevention; protected handling of chemotherapy drugs.
- Pre-operative preparation of the patients in Bone Marrow Transplant Unit.
- Drug and intravenous fluid calculations.
- Knowledge on diagnostic procedures in oncology (Endoscopy, MRI, CT scan, US, FNAC, Cytology, Mammography, Pap Smear, Fluoroscopy, Radioisotopes).
- Assist in bone marrow procedures (aspiration, biopsy), etc.
- Demonstrates knowledge on post-procedural complications like Graft-versus-host disease and Veno-occlusive Disease, etc.
- Knowledge on oncology emergencies / complications.

Candidate Requirements

- Education: Diploma / Bachelor's degree in nursing
- Registration: Valid registration in the State Nursing Council from where B. Sc. Nursing / GNM was completed.
- Experience: Minimum 2 years of clinical experience.

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