Staff Nurse - ICU

The Staff Nurse - ICU will be responsible for providing critical care nursing, continuous patient monitoring, medication administration, emergency response, ventilator care support, and ICU documentation. This requires GNM or B.Sc Nursing qualification, ICU nursing skills, infection control awareness, clinical alertness, and coordination with intensivists, doctors, technicians, and support teams.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Provide bedside nursing care to critically ill ICU patients.
• Monitor vitals, oxygen support, intake-output, consciousness level, and patient response.
• Administer medicines, injections, IV fluids, blood products, and emergency drugs as prescribed.
• Assist intensivists and doctors during rounds, procedures, and emergency care.
• Monitor ventilated patients and coordinate with ICU technicians for equipment support.
• Maintain ICU charts, medication records, nursing notes, and handover documentation.
• Identify clinical deterioration and escalate to doctors or senior nurses immediately.
• Follow infection control, central line care, catheter care, PPE, and ICU safety protocols.
• Support emergency response, BLS, ACLS-related activities, and rapid stabilization.
• Prepare patients for investigations, transfers, procedures, and discharge from ICU.
• Communicate patient updates as per hospital policy and maintain confidentiality.
• Deliver safe, disciplined, and compassionate critical care nursing.