Staff Nurse – V S HOSPITALS INDIA PVT LTD – Full Job Description

Company: V S HOSPITALS INDIA PVT LTD
Location: Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: ₹16,000 – ₹40,000 a month

Job Description:

• Compliance: Maintains compliance of nursing manuals/protocols at all circumstances while on duty.
• Medication & Patient Care: Following medical prescriptions/orders and taking care of patient’s need.
• Housekeeping: Taking care of minimum housekeeping standards including related departmental interface.
• Handover: Complete hand over/take over of her assigned patients including physically checking patients and their units.
• Special Assignments: Checks her special assignments like checking of crash cart, checking inventory, or any other assignment given by in-charge.
• Care Delivery: Plans, organizes, and delivers nursing care in a manner that upholds organizational values, healing, promotion of health and prevention of complications.
• Record Maintenance: Maintenance of nursing records including nurse’s notes, charts, consents, and initial assessment data for all assigned patients as per protocols.
• Communication: Maintains continuity of care through clear and concise verbal and written communication with all departments, internal and external customers.
• Patient Admission: Reception and orientation of newly admitted patients assigned to him/her.
• Discharge Process: Collects and sends all relevant documents duly completed to ensure speedy transfers or discharge process.
• Patient Transport: Will accompany all critical & helpless patients.
• Procedures: Performs nursing procedures as per set protocols in the department.
• Education: Imparts relevant health education to patients and families and documents of the same.
• End-of-Life Care: Takes care of all dying patients, maintains seriousness and accompanies every dead body to the mortuary.
• Professional Development: Attends all in-service education programs and takes mandatory certification programs.
• Accountability: Takes responsibility and accountability in professional advancement.

Specific Responsibilities towards Geriatric Patients:

• Psychological Understanding: Should understand psychological changes and emotional needs of an elderly.
• Assessment Skills: Should be able to do assessment of all systems and must have knowledge of physiological changes when aging.
• Safety & Security: Should be able to understand and provide safety and security needs to the aged.
• Communication Skills: Should be able to explain events and procedures in concise, simple and understandable language.
• Anxiety Reduction: Be able to reduce anxiety and agitation.
• Active Listening: Must be a patient listener.
• Independence Promotion: Be able to promote independence in self-care activities.
• Monitoring & Support: Should be able to assess intake and urination patterns and should be able to provide appropriate clothing to facilitate toileting.

Specific Responsibilities towards Pediatric Patients:

• Child-Friendly Skills: Should use skills that eliminates or minimize the psychological and physical distress experienced by children and families.
• Parental Involvement: Must make parents aware of all available health services, information of treatments and procedures and encourage changing or support existing health care practices.
• Developmental Needs: Be able to identify growth and development needs as per age of the child.
• Safety Awareness: Be aware of safety measures to be adopted for children during treatment in hospital.
• Restorative Care: Restorative role, which includes restoration of health through care giving activities.
• Team Collaboration: Coordination/collaboration with member of health team.

Job Type: Full-time
Pay: ₹16,000.00 – ₹40,000.00 per month
Benefits:

• Leave encashment
• Provident Fund

Schedule: Day shift
Work Location: In person