The Staff Nurse and Sr. Staff Nurse will be responsible for providing safe bedside care, monitoring patient condition, administering medications, assisting doctors, and maintaining nursing documentation. This requires strong clinical nursing knowledge, patient care discipline, emergency response ability, and compassionate communication. Senior staff nurses may also support junior staff supervision, shift coordination, and quality nursing practice across assigned hospital departments.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Provide direct nursing care to patients in assigned wards, ICU, emergency, or specialty departments.
- Monitor vital signs, patient condition, treatment response, intake-output, and clinical changes.
- Administer medicines, injections, IV fluids, oxygen, blood products, and nursing procedures as prescribed.
- Assist doctors during rounds, procedures, patient assessment, emergency care, and discharge planning.
- Maintain accurate nursing notes, medication charts, handover records, care plans, and patient documentation.
- Prepare patients for investigations, surgery, procedures, admission, transfer, and discharge.
- Follow infection control, biomedical waste, hand hygiene, and patient safety protocols.
- Communicate patient updates to doctors, senior nurses, patients, and relatives as per hospital policy.
- Ensure proper identification, labeling, and safe handling of patient samples, medicines, and records.
- Support emergency care, BLS, ACLS, code response, and rapid patient stabilization when required.
- Guide junior nurses and support smooth shift handover, duty coordination, and nursing discipline.
- Maintain cleanliness, equipment readiness, medicine availability, and proper nursing station arrangement.
- Educate patients and relatives about medication, diet, care instructions, and follow-up requirements.
- Report incidents, abnormal findings, complaints, or safety concerns to nursing supervisors promptly.
- Deliver ethical, compassionate, professional, and patient-centered nursing care at all times.