Nursing Incharge

Hiring for Nursing Incharge - Ward & Operation Theatre for Motherhood Hospital, Electronic City Bangalore

Qualification - GNM /BSC/MSC Nursing

Experience - Min 5 Years

Job Description ;
OT Incharge
- Responsible for the smooth functioning of OT

Ä Adherence to Nursing clinical standards.
- Ensures professional handover and takeover of shift.
- Understands patient & consultant requirements and plans resource deployment to meet the need.
- Responsible for the OT routine, equipment and patients.
- Reviews the doctor’s notes and the drug chart and acts as required
- Prepares nursing care plans and renders effective bedside nursing care
- Ensures medication safety and patient safety protocols are practiced.
- Adheres to all safety measures involved in patient care and self-protection.
- Manpower deployment - prepares duty roster; assigns nursing and anesthesia technician as per requirements.
- Ensures efficient staffing, material, and equipment availability.
- Assigns duty ensuring mix of experience and skill, senior and junior, per shift
- Ensures nurses are competent and can handle tasks assigned to them.
- Ensures nurses follow the protocols without exception.
- OT Scheduling: plans following day - checks the booking register a day before surgery, notes and actions special requirements, co-ordinates with the surgeon & anesthetist; plans manpower, equipment and ensures OT is fully prepared for the specific surgery.
- Responsible for ensuring additional requirement of resource, blood procurement, equipment is made available.
- Checks to ensure medications, consumables, instruments and equipments are available for the surgery.
- Ensures all equipment are fully functional; conducts random checks of surgical and

laparoscopic instruments ensuring they are functional.
- Competently handles all equipment used in patient care; ensures team is competent in usage; ensures equipment is serviceable and readily available.
- Tracks re-scheduling when cancellation/ delay.
- Ensures that aseptic technique is maintained strictly in OT.
- Ensures strict Infection control adherence - monitors all activities.
- Provide nursing services to the surgical procedure.
- Strictly follows WHO surgical safety process in OT - count of instruments, consumables.
- Ensures documentation for all completed surgeries is updated and accurate.
- Maintains emergency stock of medications and consumables in OT.

**Responsibilities -**

Ward Incharge
- Responsible for the efficient functioning of the Ward.

Ä Adherence to Nursing Clinical standards:

- Responsible for the Ward routine, equipment and patients.
- Ensures professional handover and takeover of shift.
- Coordinates closely with Admissions to plan resource deployment based on occupancy; when expected to be full, to escalate if resources are required.
- Understands patient & consultant requirements and plans resource deployment to meet the need.
- Ensures efficient staffing, material and equipment availability.
- Assigns duty ensuring mix of experience and skill, senior and junior, per shift.
- Ensures nurses are competent and can handle tasks assigned to them.
- Ensures nurses follow the protocols without exception.
- Responsible for the smooth room orientation on admission, stay and discharge of patient and attendants.
- Assists clinicians in treating mothers and neonates.
- Obtains medical history of the patient and communicates to the consulting physician.
- Reviews the doctor’s notes and the drug chart and acts as required.
- Ensure all investigations are carried out as advised by the doctor; reports available on time for doctor’s perusal and further advice.
- Prepares nursing care plans and renders effective bedside nursing care.
- Responsible for adherence to the clinical care plan, carefully observes for any adverse reactions, alerts clinician and NS in case of any situations.
- Handles emergencies competently & calmly; provides guidance & decisions in a timely manner.
- Advises and counsels patients in preventing illnesses affecting childbirth; precautions to be taken; reassures and instils confidence.
- Ensures NS is informed of any incidents immediately.
- Ensures medication safety and practices patient safety protocols.
- Upholds patient rights and maintains confidentiality of patient information: medical and personal; avoids any violation by ensuring no discussion of patient identifiable information in non-secure areas.
- Implements the infection control practices.
- Implements NABH & Nursing Excellence standards.
- Competently handles all equipment used in patient care; ensures team is competent in usage; ensures equipment is serviceable and readily available.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: ₹25,000.00 - ₹40,000.00 per month

**Benefits**:

- Cell phone reimbursement
- Health insurance
- Leave encashment
- Life insurance
- Provident Fund

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Morning shift

Work Location: In person