Nursing Supervisor → Deputy Nursing Superintendent → Chief Nursing Officer → Director of Nursing
4.0 Broad Function
1. Responsible primarily for coordination of patient care and maintaining Nursing practice within the specified unit. Acts as a role model and Team leader in clinical professional and patient education practices. Ensures the provision of and maintenance of quality care by qualified and competent staff.
2. Responsible for the orientation and induction for new and junior staff and Trainee Nurses to the routine procedures of the unit.
3. Deputies the Nursing Supervisor in her overall clinical, academic and administrative performance of the unit.
5.0 Principal Reponsibilities
5.1 Patient Management:
- Is responsible and accountable for the delivery of care provided in accordance with organization/department philosophy
- Demonstrates skill in implementing comprehensive and thorough assessment of patient’s specific need.
- Able to implement delivery of care based on research and /or current best practice.
- Assist the Nursing Supervisor or ANS in developing short and long range goals and objective for the unit and to be aware of the departments performance.
- Ensures the skill of individual staff is matched to the individual needs of patients.
- Is responsible for the implementation of policies which enable most effective use of nursing resources.
- Ensures that all practices are within the guideline set by the department and are in accordance with organization policy.
- Ensures the implementation of all NABH standards.
- Ensures accuracy and completion of nursing documentation within the time frame.
- Ensures customer friendly service is promoted to the staff through role modelling.
- Actively participates in the preceptor programme by inducting new personal to job requirement, Equipment and unit or Hospital system as required.
- To liaise with designated junior registered nurse to ensure their Nursing care plans reflect the findings of their assessment and assists in the identification of less predictable patient problems.
1. Professional Management
- Assumes responsibility for personal and professional growth and development through participation in
- In-service education programmes, work shops, departmental meetings..
- Adheres to all safety policies and safe work practices
- Participates in debriefing session, meetings with Nursing Leadership,
MDTR round which will enhance the quality of services provided to patient.
- . Recognizes own limitation, seeks information and advice when unable to solve conflict /problems on individual basis.
- Demonstrates competency in the following areas
- Basic competency/ annual competency as laid down by the organization.
- BLS
- Fire safety
- Infection control
- Radiation safety
- Proper use of biomedical equipment
- Waste management policy
- Others as and when scheduled.
- Nurtures Staff development through Mentoring and role modelling.
5.3 Clinical standard Management
- To identify any factors, this might interfere with the maintenance of safe clinical standards on the unit.
- Demonstrates skill in taking necessary corrective action for the error in collaboration with the supervisor and the Department Head.
- Ensure compliance of unit and hospital policies and procedures
- Ensures the units Equipments are well maintained and in working order at all times.
- To adhere to the hospitals safety norms and follow both patient safety and staff safety rules.
1. Human Resource Management:
1. Responsible for the effective use of staffing resources in the unit.
2. Ensures that staffing levels are safe, appropriate and with the necessary skill mix on each shift.
3. Ensures all training requirements are met by the staff as per department/ organizational policy.
4. Implementation of all organization/department policies to Human Resources Management, including the sick Able to delegate duties and responsibilities to staff as appropriate, in the day to day
5. Operation of the unit and to aid the development of individual staff. Sickness and absence policy.
6. Ensures that there are qualified staffs Maintained in adequate proportion to patient acuity and census.
7. Develops contingency nurse manpower planning in crisis situation
8. To participate in the performance appraisal of new Staff Nurse.
5.5 Fiscal Management
5.5.1 Contributes towards maintaining inventory for Medication, Supplies and
Equipments
1. Ensures wastage of surgical and sundry supplies used by staff is kept to minimum.
2. Ensures that all revenues are captured through accurate and timely billing of items
5.6 Budgetary Management:
5.6.1 To inform Ward In-charge/Nursing Supervisor if any malfunctioning equipment
5.6.2. To utilise resources effectively and efficiently.
1.
To maintain accurate inventory
5.7 Quality Assurance:
5.7.1 To participate in the department’s quality improvement initiatives.
5.7.2 To encourage staff participation in department’s quality improvement initiatives.
1. To work as a team to provide safe quality nursing care and procedures.
2. To adhere to hospital’s safety norms and follow both patient safety and staff
Safety rules. To identify unsafe care practices and contribute to corrective action.
5.8 Liaison and Communication:
5.8.1 To support Hospital’s policies and procedures.
1. To attend intradepartmental meetings and to meet up
6hours Training programme which is mandatory for all staff on a regular basis.
5.9 Personal and Professional:
5.9.1 To participate in professional organisations.
5.9.2 To maintain current trends in nursing practice and management through formal
Education and self development efforts.
1. To maintain professional knowledge, skills and accept responsibility for own education and career development.
2. To ensure that the established principles of Infection Control are practiced.
3. To be aware of department’s performance and objectives.
4. To perform any other duties as directed by Nursing Supervisor/Assistant Nursing Superintendent./Nursing Superintendent
1. Clinical Competencies:
1. Demonstrate clinical skills and knowledge in the delivery of patient care on:
- Bedside monitoring
- Management of post operative patient
- Supervision and guidance of junior staffs related to departmental function.
- To identify subtle changes of the patient and deliver prompt treatment and care for prevention of complication
- Continue to monitor patient’s parameters. Temperature, heart rate,
- Respiration, Blood pressure as required
- Have a Crash cart and emergency drugs available in the department
- Ensure all resuscitative equipments are in working order
- Adhere to Infection control protocol strictly.
- Able to Management of code blue situation
- Follow patient investigation and prepare accordingly
- Lead, escalate and coordinate emergency code activation and clinical pathways of disease management
- Possess advanced knowledge and skill in managing and supervising patients on intensive care with ventilator, complex surgeries with medical devices and acute life threatening complications
- Hospital information system and Operational process
- Efficiently work within the digitalised system of IP OMR
- Engages and performs the billing confirmation and updating of bill card during patient’s stay and before discharge
- Hand hold the junior nurses to utilise the digitalises OMR optimally
📌 Assistant Clinical Nurse-Nursing (Kolkata)
🏢 Apollo Group
📍 Kolkata
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