Vacancy For Shift Incharge - SRCC Children's Hospital, Mumbai

Role & responsibilities :

PATIENT CARE

• Overall planning of nursing care of the patient in the unit.
• Maintaining cleanliness & sanitation of the unit.
• Rendering direct care to seriously ill patients as & when situation arises.
• Taking handover from the night shift in-charge.
• Taking bed to bed rounds.
• Supervising dietary arrangement & proper serving of diet.
• Taking care of the health teaching programme to the patients & their relatives in her unit.
• Co-ordinating patient care with other team members.
• Assisting doctors at the time of their rounds.
• Specially responsible for the care of acutely ill & seriously ill patients of the unit.

WARD ADMINISTRATION

• Preparing duty roster of the staff nurses & student nurses.
• Checking the attendance of all nurses of the unit.
• Allocating the bed to the nurses of each shift.
• Maintaining stock of equipment, medicines & linen.
• Indenting for supplies required for the running of the unit.
• Ensuring disposal of waste, prevention of misuse & loss of articles & medicine.
• Reporting any case of indiscipline, theft or loss to the higher management.
• Coordinating the orientation programme of the new staff, students & making arrangement for continuous on-the-job training.
• Making arrangement for keeping patient belongings in a safe custody as per laid down policy of the hospital.
• Supervising, guiding & directing the work of the nurses.
• Maintaining daily census.
• Coordinating with other departments for ease of operation.
• Taking care of the practical part of the nursing training.
• Assisting to organize health teaching programme for patients & their relatives.
• Organize ward teaching programme for staff nurses & students.
• Taking care of the in service classes & nursing research programmes.

Candidate Requirements:

• Strives to develop good relations with other departments and ensures teamwork and co-operation amongst staff
• Actively promotes practices that save company resources and minimize wastage
• Willingness and initiative in acquiring knowledge, updating skills and technology or professional competency
• Able to work under pressure and stressful situations while handling multiple tasks.
• Excellent documentation skills.
• Professional oral and written communication skills; must be able to interact and communicate effectively with individuals at all levels of the organization, as well as communicate with tact, diplomacy, and a high level of cultural sensitivity
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to identify and resolve problems in a timely manner.

Preferred candidate profile

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