Staff Nurse; Radiology

Responsible for provision of nursing care activities and coordinates care planning with other disciplines, utilizing the nursing process to provide quality nursing care in adherence to policies and procedures of CARE Hospitals, MOH regulations and accreditation standards.

• Ensures through his actions, either directly or indirectly, that a superior quality of medical treatment, compassion and understanding is given to every patient served at the CARE Hospitals and Clinics.
• Performs other applicable tasks and duties assigned within the realm of his/her knowledge, skills and abilities.
• Ensures Clear understanding of unit specific nursing staffing plan, patient acuity-based assignment systems nursing allocation list, unit scope of service and standards of practice in order to appropriately carry out patient care responsibilities during the assigned shift.
• Ensures through his actions, either directly or indirectly, that a superior quality of medical treatment, compassion and understanding is given to every patient served at the CARE Hospitals and Clinics.
• Performs other applicable tasks and duties assigned within the realm of his/her knowledge, skills and abilities.
• Ensures availability to report for duty as scheduled and to accomplish all patients care assignments and delegated work assignments given by the charge nurse or head nurse in the unit within the duty, including but not limited to:
• Medication preparation, supply management, crash cart checking, and equipment, etc.
• Ensures readiness to float to other units based on the unit’s Cross-trained List.
• Receives shift endorsements from outgoing nursing staff and gives endorsement to the incoming shift nursing staff.
• Attends the unit general endorsement and patient bedside endorsement.
• Ensures awareness of the active list of all patient.
• Receives patient assignments and unit work assignment as delegated.
• Ensures awareness about special documents, any special procedures, or any other instructions especially for the assigned patient.
• Follows the Nursing Standards of Practice and Nursing Process (assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation) as a framework in providing quality nursing care and documenting patient care.
• Performs nursing assessment comprehensive data pertinent to patient’s health and situation to collect which is not limited to the following:
• Assess & recorded patient vital signs (temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, Pain utilizing the appropriate Pain Scale).
• Performs physical assessment.
• Assessing for patient’s risk for fall Scale, pressure ulcer, Venous Thromboembolism (VTE), others.
• Records Height & weight measurement
• Reviews diagnostic results indicating patient’s medical/surgical conditions.
• Involves the patient and family in the care management
• Ensures that the delivery of care to assigned patients is being carried out independently and dependently.
• Ensures awareness of the patient care management plan to guide in administering daily care to the patients.
• Facilitates patient’s admissions, referrals/ consultation, treatment procedures, transfer and/or discharge in accordance with inpatient protocols.
• Make rounds with the doctors as necessary.
• Provides and care for patients in arterial and intravenous therapy.
• Initiate and responds effectively in emergency situations and unexpected circumstances, in accordance with BLS guidelines
• Ensures patient care activities are within established hospital, departmental and unit specific guidelines, policies and procedures, standards and protocols.
• Ensures that doctor’s order been carried out accordingly.
• Initiates emergency resuscitative measures as required
• Assists with medical/surgical emergencies of any patients with change of conditions by coordinating with…