Senior Team Lead

Overview

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To ensure smooth functioning of the nursing team in AITU. Provide care for patients who are critically ill post surgeries. Assess patients on a regular basis and provide medication & care as per physicians’ instructions.

• Adhere and comply with Organization Regulations and Administrative Policies.
• Adhere and comply with policies and procedure related to patient care, infection control, patient safety and accreditation standard.
• Provides clinical supervision of staff and ensures high quality of nursing services.

• Demonstrate clinical competence in all aspects of patient care.
• Monitoring of patient care delivery process for the staff posted in the area.
• Verify and ensure patient care documentation and handover process are completed as per policies and standards for assigned shift.
• Ensure timely execution of all drug and non-drug order for the patients for the assigned shift.
• Always maintain privacy and confidentiality of patient information and records.
• Ensure compliance with all policies and procedures for medication management especially for high alert medicines, LASA and Narcotics.
• Ensure the involvement of the patient, family and significant others in the patients care.
• Contribute to interdisciplinary planning and provisioning of patient care.
• Demonstrates correct use and assembly of required equipments, instruments and appropriate cleaning of the same.
• Communicate all necessary information to the team in timely and constructive manner.
• Ensure proper allocation and deployment of nursing staff as per the requirement to maintain patient safety and quality of care.
• Monitor clinical and other established performance indicators to ensure ongoing quality Improvement.
• Evaluate the quality and appropriateness of care and assess the impact of nursing intervention as appropriate.
• Enhance the working environment through teamwork and mutual respect for others.
• Resolve conflicts and patient care problems / issues and take decisions accordingly or in consultation with the NS whenever required.

• Undertake Clinical / Nursing audit whenever required.
• Follow international patient safety goals.
• Report all near miss, sentinel events and any other incidents.
• Identify and escalate any life threatening issues, associated procedures, protocols and policy guideline.
• Comply with all quality standards as decided by organization for patient safety and quality of care.

• Ensure proper inventory management of their allocated Units.
• Manage all medical equipment in their respective area and inform clinical engineering team in case of any issues.

• Participate and contribute in scheduled in-service training programs like ACLS, BLS, PALS, NALS (if applicable) CNEs, conferences etc.,
• Identify training needs for the staffs in the team.
• Provide training and demonstrate correct use and assembly of required equipments, instruments, implants and appropriate before and after care of the same.
• Ensure staff working in the area attend the required clinical & non-clinical training programs.

• Knowledge on drug and intra venous fluid calculations.
• Perform Intercostal Drainage, ROMOVAC drain monitoring and documentation.
• Ability to position patients appropriately.
• Evaluate Intra Cranial Pressure and Glasgow Coma Scale.
• Knowledge on normal laboratory values and Panic values.
• Knowledge on Colostomy, Stapler removal and nursing care.
• Knowledge on FAST HUG Protocol.
• Assist in Intake and Output Documentation.
• Administrate, store and dispose of Narcotics as per policy.
• Knowledge about the different types of sterilisation and aseptic techniques followed in NH.
• Monitor and demonstrate infection control guidelines, practices and bio medical waste management.
• Processing patient samples for ABG, VBG, GRBS, CARDIAC SOB, ACT & PT INR on POCT devices.
• Monitoring flags and trouble shooting of POCT equipment on daily basis, coordinating with Biomedical team, IT department and Lab POCT consultants as and when required.
• Monitors Inter Quality control for ABG, Cardiac triage, PT INR and Glucometers on…