Nurse at Eye Foundation Hospital

Job Summary

• A Nursing Officer is responsible for treating patients who are sick and injured, counselling, offering advice and emotional support to patients and their families, taking care of paperwork, helping doctors diagnose patients and providing advice and follow-up care.

Responsibilities

• Identifies patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand care requirements.
• Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
• Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals; teaching patient, friends, and family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills; answering questions.
• Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments; following hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations.
• Resolves patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.
• Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations; calling for assistance from health care support personnel.
• Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.
• Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
• Maintains continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.
• Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
• Ensures operation of equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; following manufacturer's instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; calling for repairs; maintaining equipment inventories; evaluating new equipment and techniques.
• Maintains nursing supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed supplies; placing and expediting orders for supplies; verifying receipt of supplies; using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results.
• Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information; responding to requests; building rapport; and participating in team problem-solving methods.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Skills and Competencies

• Interested candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree in relevant fields with 1 - 3 years work experience.
• Must be Compassionate
• Excellent Verbal and Written communication Skills
• Strong Professional Conduct.
• Commitment to Safety.
• Attention to Detail.

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Job Description

Before Surgery:

• Prepares equipment needed for the patient to safely undergoAnesthesia
• Checking and setting up theanesthetic machine
• Preparingintravenousdrugs
• Preparingintravenous therapyadministration equipment
• Preparing a range of devices to maintain the patient's airway (e.g.laryngeal masks, endotracheal tube)
• Communicating with the patient when they arrive into the operating theatre

During Surgery:

• Monitoring and maintaining patients'vital signsand anesthesia depth.
• Ensure Collection and analysis of patient (blood) samples.
• Acquiring and administering transfusion fluids and equipment.
• Work closely under the supervision of the Consultant Anesthesiologist.

After Surgery:

• Waking the patient after the surgery.
• Removing airway devices.
• Transferring patients to post-operative care unit.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess B.Sc Degrees with 2 - 3 years relevant work experience.