OT Staff Nurse

Duties & Responsibilities:
A. Clinical Activities

• To help staff in patient Endorsement.
• Carries out assigned job given by Sr. Staff Nurse and Team Leader – Nursing / Nursing Supervisor.
• Provides the basic care according to the priority needs of the patients.
• To help Staff nurse for Carries out Consultants’ orders appropriately.
• Maintains personal hygiene of patients.
• Maintains ward safety and provides safe environment.
• Completes Competency Assessments.
• Takes part in training and Staff Development Programme.

B. Educative Activities

• Participates in in-service education programme.

C. Recording and Reporting Activities

• Records and reports nursing care, treatment, medicine correctly and promptly.

D. Communication Activities

• Provides Psychological support to patient and relatives.
• Reports any incident to the concerned person.
• Maintains good interpersonal relationship with patients, relatives, colleagues, coworkers

and the department staff.

Skill Sets:
Nursing Skill & Organizing Skills:

• Plan & Organize patient requirement.
• Read OT procedures and policies.
• Provide holistic/ Comprehensive patient care.
• Ability to care out daily briefing, to junior reporting nurses about patient’s/ their

relatives, supplies, new items added to the department.

Communication Skills:

• Ability to communicate with patient & their relative’s needs (Ability to listen).
• Ability to explain & clarify doubts of the patient & their relatives.
• To be able to coordinate & work with multi-ethnic workforce.
• Ability to coordinate with billing & other departments.
• Answering queries & telephone cells.
• Ability to communicate patient’s complaints to concerned authority & eliminate

patient’s problem.

• Document in detail & inform team- members of any unusual event.
• Maintain the communication book.
• Ability to handle anxious relatives by giving information about the time/length of

operation.

• Inform patient’s relatives sitting in the Companion room about operation progress.
• Weekly department meeting for information sharing.