JOB DESCRIPTION

Position: Palliative Care Nurse
Organization: Community Palliative Care Center
Location: Malayinkeezhu
Department: Nursing / Palliative Care
Qualification: General Nursing and Midwifery (GNM)
Experience: Preferably 1–2 years of nursing experience. Experience in palliative care, home care, or community health nursing will be an added advantage.

1. Job Purpose

To provide compassionate, holistic, and patient-centered nursing care to patients with life-limiting illnesses, ensuring comfort, dignity, pain relief, and improved quality of life through community-based and home-based palliative care services.

2. Key Responsibilities

A. Patient Care

- Provide comprehensive nursing care to patients with chronic, terminal, and life-limiting illnesses.
- Assess patients' physical, psychological, social, and emotional needs.
- Monitor vital signs and assess the patient's overall health condition.
- Assist in pain management and symptom control as per the physician's instructions.
- Provide wound care, dressing, catheter care, and other nursing procedures.
- Administer medications, injections, and other prescribed treatments.
- Manage symptoms such as breathlessness, nausea, vomiting, constipation, and pressure sores.

B. Community and Home-Based Care

- Participate in home visits and community-based palliative care activities.
- Provide nursing support to bedridden and critically ill patients at home.
- Educate family members and caregivers on patient care, hygiene, nutrition, positioning, and medication administration.
- Identify changes in patient conditions and report them promptly to the medical team.
- Coordinate with doctors, nurses, volunteers, and other healthcare professionals.

C. Psychological and Emotional Support

- Provide emotional support to patients and their families.
- Maintain patient dignity, privacy,



and confidentiality.
- Support families and caregivers in coping with end-of-life care.
- Communicate with empathy, patience, and compassion.

D. Documentation and Reporting

- Maintain accurate patient records and nursing care documentation.
- Record vital signs, medications, procedures, and patient progress.
- Maintain home visit records and daily activity reports.
- Report emergencies and significant changes in patient conditions to the concerned medical officer.

E. Infection Control and Safety

- Follow standard infection prevention and control practices.
- Ensure proper handling and disposal of biomedical waste.
- Maintain cleanliness and safety during home visits and clinical procedures.
- Follow organizational policies, nursing standards, and ethical practices.

3. Required Skills and Competencies

- Valuable clinical and nursing skills.
- Knowledge of basic palliative care principles.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Empathy, patience, and compassion towards patients and families.
- Ability to work independently in community and home-care settings.
- Teamwork and coordination skills.
- Willingness to travel for home visits.
- Ability to handle bedridden and end-of-life patients with dignity.

4. Key Performance Expectations

- Timely and quality nursing care to all assigned patients.
- Regular and effective follow-up of patients.
- Accurate maintenance of patient records.
- Effective coordination with the palliative care team.
- Positive patient and caregiver feedback.
- Compliance with infection control and organizational protocols.

5. Reporting To

Palliative Care Medical Officer / Nursing Supervisor / Center Coordinator.

6. Job Location

Community Palliative Care Center, Malayinkeezhu.

Nature of Work: Center-based nursing care and community/home-based patient visits.

Work Location: In person

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