Nursing Incharge

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**Job-Holder Specifications**

**Basic**
**Qualification /**
**Education / ** GNM/ BSc. Nursing/ MSc. Nursing
**Vocational**
**Training**

**Advanced**
**Qualification / **Valid KNC
**Certification /**
**Specialist**
**Training**

**Minimum**
5-8 Years

**Experience**

**Specific /**
**Relevant **Minimum 08 years working in a hospital in which at least 05 years of nursing
**Experience **administrative experience as a unit in charge **.**

**Functional ** Job competence.
**Skills and**
- Compliance, Quality and Safety consciousness

**Capabilities**
- Leadership & Mentoring skills
- Clinical expertise.
- Initiative, punctuality, learning, Flexibility, Adaptability & Empathy
- Adherence to work ethics, dependability.
- Supervise nurses and Team work
- Handling admissions and discharges
- Positive & empathetic attitude
- Computer Skills & Knowledge
- Delegate tasks and coordinate patient care
- Positive attitude and Problem solving

**JOB RESPONSIBILITIES**

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Incharge Nursing has to report to the Nursing Superintendent. And assist her in the administration of nursing services in the hospital.

**NURSING ADMINISTRATION**:
Supervise the nursing care given to the patients in various departments by taking regular round of her area.

Act as a liaison officer between Nursing Superintendent. And the nursing staff of the hospital.
- Interpret the policies and procedures of the Nursing service department to sub-ordinate staff and others. Assist the nursing superintendent. On planning and organizing nursing services in the hospital.
- Attend the emergency calls concerning nursing services or hostel problems.
- Receive evening and night reports from the Supervisors or in charges.
- Keep records and reports of Nursing Services.
- Maintain the records of attendance of nursing staff and leave of any kind.
- Conduct regular physical verification of hospital stocks, i.e. drugs, equipment’s etc.
- Initiate procedure for condemnation and procurement of hospital equipment/linen etc.
- Maintain the report of the staff.
- Help nursing superintendents to do the appraisals

MANPOWER PLANNING Assist the Nursing Superintendent for manpower planning. Ensure adequate staff in each shift as per business volume & requirement. A contingency plan for staffing in high occupancy is in place Leaves should be monitored & absenteeism should be immediately reported..

On call duties & double shifts to be minimized

**TRAINING**
- Ensure all new joiners are undergone induction program.
- Organize the training the departmental training.
- Maintain discipline among nursing personnel.
- Ensure the need based training to the staff & retraining of incompetent staff.
- Policies & protocols to be explained to the new staff.
- Ensure HIS training & BLS for each staff.
- Ensure each new joiner to undergo chemotherapy workshops.
- Ensure six hours of clinical training for each employee in a month.

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- Provide guidance and counselling to nursing staff. Ensure adequate training to be given when there is a change of responsibility or new equipment’s introduced.
- Organize educational programs for graduate/post graduate students from different hospitals with the co-ordination of clinical instructor/lecturer college of nursing.
- Competency of staff to be completed in 3 months.

**INVENTORY- MANAGEMENT**
- Ensure each wards has a master inventory book.
- Ensure Daily checking of inventory done by junior staff.
- Ensure proper storage of medicines & consumables
- Ensure expenses in nursing areas are within budgeted expenses.
- Set up a tight inventory control.
- Ensure all wards do indents on allocated days
- Track consumption on a monthly basis.
- Track 10 top line items in a day
- Ensure biomedical equipment’s are maintained properly.
- Documented evidence should be kept while transferring of equipment’s to other units.

**QUALITY**
- Ensure comprehensive care given to each patient & evaluate given care.
- Ensure patient safety in all the aspects.
- All documents to be audited.
- Quality indicators to be monitored & bench mark to be maintained.
- All nursing indicators to be monitored strictly.
- Ensure the quality improvement programs.
- Captured indicators to be verified.
- Quality indicators to be submitted by 4 th of every month.
- Patient’s feedbacks & grievances to be addressed.
- Attend the quality meetings & ops meetings.
- Evaluate incident reports & help nursing superintendent to do the Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
- If any undue incidents happen in the wards, inform higher authorities.

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**AUDITS**
- **Daily**:

- Conduct the following audits randomly on daily basis.
- Infection control practices.
- Biomedical waste management.
- Phlebitis, central lines, IV sets& other catheters.
- Progress notes & care plan. Monitoring patients on narcotics.
- Communication & courtesy of staff.
- Grooming standard of staff.
- **Monthly**:

- Ensure stock audits.
- Ensure consumption materials & consumables.
- Bio Medical audit