Key Journaled Duties of a Staff Nurse
- Patient Care & Clinical Duties:
- Admission/Discharge: Handling patient admissions, transfers, and discharges.
- Direct Care: Providing hygiene (bathing, mouth care), feeding, and positioning.
- Technical Procedures: Administering medicines/injections, catheterization, dressings, and collecting specimens.
- Monitoring: Taking and recording temperature, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure (TPR/BP).
- Safety: Protecting patients from injury by using side rails and maintaining a safe environment.
- Administrative & Ward Management:
- Record Keeping: Writing shift reports, maintaining patient charts, and registering poisonous drugs.
- Inventory Control: Indenting and checking drugs, linen, and supplies; maintaining equipment.
- Reporting: Handing over/taking over charge, and reporting patient condition changes to doctors.
- Professional & Educational Duties:
- Supervision: Guiding student nurses, nursing orderlies, and helping with orientation for new staff.
- Education: Providing health education to patients and families.
- Rounds: Making rounds with doctors and senior nursing officers.
Pay: ₹18,000.00 - ₹25,000.00 per month
Work Location: In person
