Job Purpose

Promotes and restores patients' health by completing the nursing process; collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members; providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families; supervising assigned team members.

Essential duties and responsibilities

· Provide professional nursing care with an assigned unit according to established standards and procedures.

· Provide comprehensive care to assigned patients.

· Follows policy and delivers designated nursing interventions to assigned patients that are consistent with the documented medical plan of care.

· Takes the nursing history, summarizes data and states nursing diagnoses / patient care needs.

· Organize and maintain patient file and reports as per the MRD requirements in all shifts.

· Always greet with smile to patient and companion for their well-being.

· Be groomed always.

· Observes and records signs, symptoms and behaviors including the physiological status of patients’ reports, assessment changes to the concerned authority.

· Ensure smooth functioning of admission, discharge and transfer procedures and assists others with patients’ activities and care with collaborative manner.

· Follow handover-takeover process accurately with written/online notes.

· Ensure introduction of next shift team member to patient and patient side medication check in each shift.

· Executes physician’s orders for all assigned patients safely and properly administers medications and treatments. Strictly adhere read back policy

· Ensure identification safety for collection of specimens during collection and till the report informed to consultant.

· Participate in consultant’s rounds and assist by giving relevant information based on nursing assessment/reassessment and observations.





· Carry out routine check at each handover that all equipment’s are in working order.

· Keep equipment’s in charging.

· Ensure that all items used for patients inclusive of medications, surgical supplies are duly recorded and charged.

· Ensure during internal transfer except the ordered medicine all other drug to be returned before shifting to other unit.

· Maintain patients and accompanies safety by taking preventive measures against accidents.

· Accurately records and reports incidents.

· Ensure every error to be recorded.

· Ensure strict infection control protocol and bio-waste guidelines to be followed for 24x7.

· Ensure that daily briefing points and sign off are mandatory for day to day update.

Specific Unit Related Nursing Care:

- Responsible for safety and comfort of patients, and the health and safety of employees assigned to the respective unit.
- Ensure that all the files (record) are completely maintained.
- Ensure that proper observation records of the patient are made and necessary information imparted to the concerned authorities.
- Ensure proper handling of patient.
- Monitors vital sign and reports abnormalities.
- Ensure samples are collected and send to concerned diagnostic labs.
- To ensure that staff is taking precaution to avoid blood born infection
- To ensure refrigerator/deep freezer temperature is maintained.
- To ensure that medical reports are generated timely.
- Any other jobs assigned by superior.

Working conditions

· Should be willing to work in different assigned shifts.

· Stretched working hours

· Excellent deal with standing & walking along with bending & lifting

· Professional hazard

· On call duty

· Field duty (Camps, periphery clinics)

Skills & Abilities

· Caring and compassionate nature

- Excellent teamwork and people skills
- Observational skills
- Ability to deal with emotionally charged and pressured situations
- Excellent Verbal and written communication skills
- Multi-tasking

📌 Ward Nurse (Ahmedabad)
🏢 Zydus Hospitals Group
📍 Ahmedabad