ICU Incharge- Nursing

Specific Job Responsibilities

Implementation & Execution of SOPs

• Ensure proper admission, transfer, and discharge of patient.
• Plans Nursing Care and makes patients assignment as per their Nursing needs.
• Assists in the direct care of the patient as and when required.
• Ensure every staff hands & take over the patient properly in all shifts.
• Plan the type of care to be given to various patients and implement the same.
• Ensure the patients are received and transferred as per nursing protocol.
• Ensure every patients all parameters are observed / recorded and is reported to the doctor by the nursing staff.
• Makes round with doctors. Assists him in diagnosis and treatment of the patients
• Observes and submit monthly nursing compliance of Nsg. Staff.
• Ensure safety, comfort & good personal hygiene of all patients.
• Resolving patients complaints and ensuring escalation of unresolved complaints to appropriate authorities.

Inventory Management

• Ensure every staff hands & take over the inventory item properly in all shifts
• Periodical Inventory checking and maintaining of the stock register.
• Submission of list of obsolete item for condemnation & getting the replacement

on time

• Checking the expiry date of drugs & disposable submitting monthly reports to the Asst. Nursing officer.

Staff management & training

• Conducting Departmental Induction program for recruits
• Conducting clinical teaching as per day to day need of patient
• Ensuring adequate knowledge of all drugs & its actions, various equipments the department to update the knowledge of Nsg. Staff.
• Preparing the duty ROTA of the staff
• Efficient Planning of leave for Nsg. Staff without interrupting the routine of Emergency department / ambulatory services.

Nursing Unit Management

• Make sure that all the equipments in department like monitors, defibrillators, syringe pumps, suction machine , oxygen equipments accessories & various instruments etc. are functioning well at all times and inform about the dysfunction of equipment to the concerned authority for the immediate repair / replacement and ensure that correction is done in a timely manner .
• Provision of all linen /Material /drugs and other recourses round the clock.
• Ensure that the crash cart is maintained throughout as per the list.

Miscellaneous

• Act as a liaison officer between superiors and subordinates.
• Reporting adverse events to authorities

Maintaining records and reports

Experience- 10 years and above

Qualifications--Diploma / B.Sc. Nursing, P.B.Sc

Technical Competencies-

• Good knowledge about bed side nursing
• Computer Knowledge
• Knowledge about emergency patient management

Knowledge of Inventory management

Behavioral Competencies

• Proactive
• Problem solving ability
• Good communication skills
• Good co-ordination skills
• Ability to lead a team
• Decision making Ability