Nursing Superintendent

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• Taking rounds and visiting patients personally daily
• Encouraging nurses to maintain the personal hygiene of the patients including clothes, bath, hair, spunge etc
• Informing MO or doctor immediately at the time of emergency or night shift
• Decision making and attending to all medication error for timely action
• Escalating serious issues to the management.
• Should be aware about patient details and specifications such as patient name, treatment prescribed, ward, doctors name, medications in real time
• Monitoring the admission and discharge of patients
• Ensuring proper handover is given during shift change.
• Observing the practice of basic nursing care on a daily routine by the staff
• Ensuring the maintenance and checking of equipment's of crush cart on a daily basis
• Checking of final documentation and sending across for MRD file process
• Administrating medical requirements of the patients
• Devising the mopping plan of floor on a daily basis
• Ensuring timely receiving of linen, instruments, medicines etc.
• Following up with concerned department in case of delay.
• Maintaining mandatory inventory management register
• Ensuring that entry of records in registers such as bed sore, mopping plan, medicine return, incidental register etc as per NABH guidelines and hospital rules are made timely and without miss.
• Escalating matters related to nursing issued to HR
• Planning budget for Nursing department.
• Represent nursing staff in various meetings and Committee meetings.
• Plan events for nursing members. Patient Related
• Supervising the provision of medications offered to patients as prescribed by doctors
• Ensuring that patients are served meals as per their diet chart the records are maintained for the same.
• Ensuring smooth transfer for patients as per the treatment need
• Maintaining an infection free environment by thorough supervision.
• Monitoring the timely medication as per prescription to the patient by the nurse
• Supervising the procedures of intravenous injections, infusion and transfusion.
• Informally interacting with the patients to get their feedback.
• Imparting regular training to the nursing staff regarding the details of patient file. Others
• Monitoring the disposal of biomedical waste in an appropriate manner
• Taking regular floor rounds and visiting patients
• Assuring infection control practices
• Ensuring that the biomedical team resolves the issue in case of any breakdown of machine.
• Education UG: B.Sc in Nursing.
• Minimum 5-10 years experience with a multispeciality hospital.