Neonatal Intensive Care (NICU) Nurse
- Jamnagar, Gujarat
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Provides care for children and adolescents with life threatening or high- acuity conditions that require constant monitoring.
- Responsible to deliver a professional, safe and quality patient care through the nursing process of assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation.
- Responsible for effective communication with patients, relatives and members of the health care team
- Responsible for patient and family satisfaction
- Adhere to all clinical and nursing protocol as per Hospital Policies of Sir H N Reliance Foundation
- Deliver safe and quality nursing care in conformance with the Sir HN RFH policies and processes.
- Ensure patient safety at all times according to hospital policies
- Ensure that patient privacy and confidentiality is duly protected at all times
- Treat patients and their family with courtesy, respect, and caring behavior
- Ensure effective patient care delivery and achievement of desired patient outcomes in collaborate with other professional disciplines
- Ensure nursing quality indicators are within the defined benchmark
- Take immediate action to resolve any issues / complaint / distress expressed in any way by the patient or family within her limits and escalate to higher level
- Receive the patient, check the identification & orient to the unit.
- Perform nursing assessment, identify patient needs and develop appropriate measureable individualized nursing care plan in consultation with Ward Manager
- Management of neonates with ventilator care, central lines, arterial blood gas interpretation, and analysis of lab results
- Respond to life-saving situations, using clinical guidelines and protocols for treatment under supervision of Ward Manager
- Ensure correct implementation of pediatric Drug calculation and Infusion protocol
- Ensure safety of patient by adhering to policies of patient identification, fall prevention, safe medication management and prevention of infection.
- Monitoring and management of patients with cardiac , inotropes and sedation medications, rhythm strip analysis, identifying arrhythmias
- Administers infusion therapy, including: IV fluids, antibiotics, antifungals, antivirals, electrolytes, lipids
- Use effective communication, written and verbal at all levels of staff including the multi-disciplinary team, patients and relatives.
- Monitor patients on regular basis to assess and reassess progress and trends that require interventions and inform Ward Manager
- Assist the Consultants on clinical rounds. Provide medication and nursing care as per the clinical orders
- Coordinate admission, transfer and discharge process ensuring adherence to stipulated timelines
- Ensure that the discharge planning and health education is given as per the protocol with respect to each patient
- Maintain and update accurate documentation in Hospital Information System with respect to assigned clinical responsibilities
- Provide a high tech children service area for critically ill, medically complex and post-surgical patients
- Ensures Infection control practices like Hand hygiene , safe Infusion practices, Care Bundles, proper waste segregation, isolation protocols etc.
- Demonstrate BLS, NRP & NALS skills.
- Monitor vigilantly and identify and report early warning signs
- Demonstrate clinical skills and knowledge in the delivery of patient care. Assists with the insertion or discontinuation of UVC,UAC catheters , and endotracheal tubes, procedures in NICU
- Understand life threatening arrhythmias and to act accordingly.
- Ensures ventilators, monitors and other types of medical equipments functions properly and demonstrate the skill of handling it.
- Administer intravenous fluids, inotropic infusions and other medications competently.
- Demonstrate knowledge of performing different diagnostic test as per physicians order.
- Assists patients in kangaroo mother care.
- Monitors and record patient vital signs and other necessary parameters as frequently as per patients condition.
- Notify any abnormal finding and early warning signs immediately to the physician.
- Document critical parameters and condition of patients in HIS.
- Identify unsafe care practices and contribute to corrective action.
- Adhere to evidence based practices in the clinical area
- Coordinate with support services / functions interdepartmental for investigations, etc
- Attend on call emergency care in case of need
- Participate as per the defined role during any internal / external disaster
- Any other responsibility as assigned by the HOD
- Identify unsafe care practices and contribute to corrective action.
- Actively participate in in service education programs according to the organizational policy
- Ensure patient satisfaction is as per the parameters set by the hospital from time to time
- Engage in aligning with the processes, policy, vision & mission of the hospital
- Enhance Patient Care and Patient Relatives experience to make RFH the preferred choice
- Ensure Nursing and infection control and other quality indicators are within the defined bench mark
- Actively participate in infection control and prevention activities, campaigns, awareness sessions etc.
- Actively participate and be accountable for implementation of all quality programs to ensure continuous quality improvement
- Ensure optimal utilization of available resources ( drugs and consumable )
- Ensure proper utilization of ward stock items and maintain its appropriate charging or stock consumption record
- Ensure safe handling of biomedical equipments and prevent breakages
- Attend all in service Nursing/hospital trainings
- Assist in orientation of new nursing staff and supervise them for safe patient care
- Supervise PCAs / PTAs and ensure patient care
- Ensure effective patient care delivery and achievement of desired patient outcomes in collaboration with other professional disciplines
- Engage in training and educational program for freshers and new joinees to impart the protocols and hospital policies
- Ensure effective communication with the health care team members by ensuring Hands off
- Identify and suggest new ideas/ feedback to enhance departmental operations and patient care
- Plan and participate in clinical education, research, test medication and clinical tests to advance the practice of nursing as well as academic and teaching activities as required by the hospital.
- Patient First
- Excellence
- Accountability
- Respect
- Teamwork
- Integrity
- Patient Orientation
- Effective Communication Skills
- Use of HIS
- Knowledge of organizational and infection control policies and procedures
- Knowledge about JCI and NABH standards
- BLS/ ACLS/ PALS
- Knowledge on Patient Safety Protocols
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