Job Description for Nurses
Clinical:
- Administer medicines in accordance with guidelines, Policies and Procedures and as prescribed by the doctors.
- Correctly follow routine maintenance schedules and sterilization procedures for equipment.
- Monitor fluid electrolyte balance Intravenous canalization, administering intravenous fluid, monitoring and maintain adequate record of intake and output
- Administer drugs- oral, sublingual, intravenous, intra dermal, subcutaneous and intramuscular.
- Ensure preoperative checks are made on accepting the patient into the OT and prior to the administration of any anesthetics or surgical procedure along with the Nurse anesthetist.
- Ensure that surgical policies and procedures are adhered to in relation to operations and correct procedures are followed in the checking of swabs, instruments, needles etc.
- Undertake delegated responsibilities when needed by the doctors and take charge of a shift without direct supervision.
- Administer oxygen when required and perform suction during procedures.
- Emergency patient care and assisting surgeon during Caesarean section, D&C and etc.
- Observe and monitor patients in the recovery room and provide post operative care in surgical ward, including being on call.
- Assist medical staff in normal and complicated deliveries as needed.
- Assist the medical staffs in the antenatal and postnatal care and general cases at the Hospital, when required.
- Maintain the records, nurses reports and charts and all