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 qualified 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.

· Ensure accurate documentation in nursing assessment sheet, pre and post-operative documents, intake output chart, ER chart, ICU chart etc. Don’t use other ink to erase, only strike off with single line.

· 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 (Refer policy no. 6 of medical admin).

· 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 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:





· Receives post-op Patient and also inform other departments.

· Have basic knowledge of Patient Diagnostic procedure.

· Observes conscious state and pupil reaction.

· Draws Blood Sample (arterial and venous).

· Assists in setting up ventilator, changes ventilator tubing and filter.

· Assists in intubation and extubation and does ETT and oral suctioning.

· Monitors and gives nursing care for patients on restraint.

· Demonstrates ability and knowledge of adult and pediatric CPR.

· Assists in Insertion of CVP and arterial line.

· Performs chest physiotherapy and limb physiotherapy.

· Assist in defibrillation.

· Cares for surgical wounds and performs surgical dressing.

· Maintains aseptic technique whenever required.

· To follow Time Out for Invasive procedure

· IPSG/GCS – Prepare Nursing care plan, deliver and document.

· Monitor and maintain the accurate I/O chart

· Monitor patient on ventilator.

· Responsible to carry out – Critical Value Protocol

· Any other jobs assigned by superior.

Working conditions

· Should be willing to work in different assigned shifts.

· Stretched working hours

· Great 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

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