Nursing Incharge - NICU/PICU

Duties & Responsibilities:
Direct Patient Care

• Ensures smooth functioning of NICU & PICU.
• Ensures that all admission, discharge, transfers and procedures are carried out

according to the correct procedure.

• Assists in the direct care of the patient as and when required.
• Document patients' treatment plans, interventions, outcomes, or plan revisions.
• Document patients' medical histories and assessment findings.
• She/he oversees that total health needs of all patients are met.
• Ensures safety, comfort and good personal hygiene of all patients.
• Assists in planning and implementation of emergency procedures.
• Makes herself /himself available during code situations, if any.
• Sees that proper observation records of the patients are made and necessary information imparted to the concerned authorities.
• Takes Nursing rounds.
• Ensures proper utilization and availability of inpatient beds.
• Ensures irate customers are attended to and made comfortable.
• Advocate for patients' and families' needs, or provide emotional support for patients and their families.
• Updates the hospital census and other statistical records.
• Prepares the list of all surgeries, procedures and international patients.

Infection Control NICU & PICU

• With patient safety as the primary goal of all nursing practices, here are the primary responsibilities and role:

1. Identify infectious disease processes

2. Epidemiologic and surveillance investigations
3. Control and prevention of transmission of infectious agents

• An Infection control assists developing and implementing procedures and policies, creates tools relating to infection diseases, and collaborates in auditing.
• monitoring hazardous procedures and practices, and participate in documentation related to quality standard and service specifications.

Supervision and Administration

• Ensures safe and clean environment.
• Set up and monitoring medical equipment and devices such as cardiac monitors, mechanical ventilators and alarms, oxygen delivery devices, transducers, and pressure lines.
• Ensuring that ventilators, monitors and other types of medical equipment function properly.
• Ensure that equipment or devices are properly stored after use.
• Identify malfunctioning equipment or devices.
• Ensures availability of medications and patient care equipment.
• Establishes and reinforces standards prescribed in the procedures and manuals of

the department and the hospital and policies that are in force.

• Manages absenteeism / inadequacy of staff efficiently during the shift as per laid

down hospital policy.

• Deals appropriately with any adverse situation that has occurred in any department

and reports to the concerned authorities.

• Reports about any medico-legal cases during the shift.
• Writes and submits confidential reports of the staff.
• Reports and documents medication errors/adverse events.
• Participate in the development, review, and evaluation of nursing practice protocols.
• Plan, provide, or evaluate educational programs for nursing staff, interdisciplinary health care team members, and community members.
• Supervise and monitoring nursing staff.
• Reporting of Incidents.
• Mapping of Quality Indicators in NICU & PICU.
• Responsible for the Inventory Management in the assigned Area.

Educational Functions

• Organizes orientation programmes for new staff.
• Organizes formal and informal ward teaching, conducts bedside clinics and demonstrations.
• Conducts NICU/PICU conferences/meetings.
• Gives incidental teaching to patients, relatives, Staff Nurses, students and the domestic staff.
• Guides in formulation of Nursing care studies, and nursing care plans etc.
• Evaluates the staff’s performance and submits reports to the nursing administration.
• Encourages staff development programme in NICU & PICU.

• The Incharge NICU & PICU will be on call and available 24/7.
• Will be responsible for any other duties assigned by the Nursing Superintendent from time to time.

Skill Sets:

• Verbal Ability/Communication Skill (Written & Oral)
• Problem Solving/Decision Making
• Leadership Qualities

Others:

• Enthusiasm
• Leadership Qualities
• Creative Thinking