- Nursing Governance & Professional Practice

- Establish and enforce nursing policies, SOPs, clinical protocols, and scope of practice.
- Ensure uniform standards of nursing care across all clinical areas.
- Uphold ethical practice, professional conduct, and accountability within nursing services.

2. Nursing Service Delivery (24×7 Operations)
- Own day-to-day and round-the-clock nursing operations for OPD, IPD, ICU, OT, ER, daycare chemo/infusion, BMT, dialysis, and specialty areas.
- Ensure secure handovers, escalation protocols, and continuity of care.
- Conduct regular leadership rounds and unit reviews; remove blockers that affect bedside care.

3. Nursing Practice Standards & Clinical Protocol Execution
- Establish and enforce nursing practice standards, SOPs, and checklists for:
- Medication administration, chemo safety, transfusion, line care.
- Wound/pressure injury prevention, falls prevention, pain assessment.
- Documentation standards and patient monitoring.
- Ensure nursing compliance is measurable through audits and direct observation.

4. Staffing, Skill Mix & Workforce Control
- Build and manage staffing plans: sanctioned strength, skill-mix, float pool, backups, and surge planning.
- Own roster governance: leave planning, night duty distribution, overtime control, agency use control.
- Monitor and correct staffing risks in high-acuity areas (ICU, OT, BMT, dialysis, ER).

5. Recruitment, Onboarding, Probation Readiness & Retention
- Drive end-to-end nursing hiring with HR: role specs, interview panels, selection standards.
- Ensure structured onboarding: orientation, competency validation, unit posting, buddy system.
- Set “go/no-go” readiness criteria before independent duty.

6. Training, Competency & Clinical Capability Building




- Own nursing training calendar and competency program:
- ICU competencies (ventilator care, vasoactive drugs, bundles).
- OT competencies (scrub/circulation, counts, asepsis).
- Oncology competencies (chemo handling, extravasation, central lines, neutropenic care).
- BMT & isolation nursing, dialysis care, transfusion monitoring.
- Maintain competency matrices, periodic assessments, and remediation plans.

7. Nursing Indicators & Quality / Patient Safety Leadership
- Own nursing-sensitive indicators and improvement actions:
- Falls, pressure injuries, medication errors, infiltration/extravasation.
- Catheter/line-associated events, documentation errors, missed care.
- Lead or co-lead RCA for nursing-related incidents; implement CAPA and verify effectiveness.

8. Infection Prevention & Compliance (Nursing Execution Owner)
- Own bedside compliance for infection prevention practices:
- Hand hygiene, PPE, isolation, cleaning practices at point-of-care.
- Device care bundles (CLABSI/CAUTI/VAP), environmental discipline.
- Coordinate with Infection Control team for audits, outbreak response, and corrective actions.

9. OT & ICU Nursing Management
- Ensure OT staffing, readiness, sterile discipline, instrument counts, recovery staffing and escalation.
- Ensure OT nursing checklist compliance and coordination with CSSD and anesthesia.
- Ensure ICU staffing, skill validation, escalation discipline,



critical medication safety, and documentation reliability.
- Ensure compliance with ICU nursing bundles and monitoring standards.

10. Patient Experience & Family Communication
- Ensure nursing communication standards with patients and families are consistent and empathetic.
- Address nursing-related grievances, delays, behaviour concerns; close the loop with documented actions.
- Drive service recovery standards and bedside etiquette.

11. Supplies, Consumables & Equipment Readiness
- Ensure nursing stations/units have critical supplies (IV sets, PPE, infusion disposables, dressing kits).
- Work with stores/biomed for equipment readiness: pumps, monitors, syringe pumps, crash carts.
- Ensure crash cart governance, expiry checks, and shift-wise checks.

12. Discipline, Conduct & Performance Management
- Set expectations and enforce discipline: punctuality, uniform, documentation, patient safety behaviours.
- Run structured performance reviews for nursing supervisors/managers; identify training vs. discipline issues.
- Address non-performance and misconduct with HR-supported corrective actions.

13. Coordination with Allied & Support Services
- Ensure coordination with physiotherapy, nutrition, psycho-oncology, speech/swallow, audiology, dental.
- Work with housekeeping, security, linen, biomedical waste teams to maintain bedside safety and hygiene.

14. Governance, Reporting & Management Communication
- Present regular nursing dashboards to leadership:
- Staffing, overtime, attrition, training completion.
- Quality indicators, incidents, infection compliance, patient feedback.
- Lead nursing leadership meetings; ensure action tracking and closure.

Work Location: In person

📌 General Manager & Head -Nursing Services (Yelahanka)
🏢 cytecare hospital
📍 Yelahanka