Team Lead

Job Description:

Responsibilities

• 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
• Care Delivery
• 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 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.
• Collaborative Responsibility
• 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.
• Work Environment Management
• 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.
• Quality Management
• Undertake Clinical / Nursing audit whenever required.
• Follow international patient safety goals
• Report all near miss, sentinel events and any other incidents
• Comply with all quality standards as decided by organization for patient safety and quality of care.
• Inventory Management
• 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.
• Training and Development
• 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.
• Ensure staff working in the area attend the required clinical & non-clinical training programs.
• Functional Area Responsibility
• Perform Cardiovascular assessment.
• Handle cardiac monitors.
• Assess and interpret Intra Cranial Pressure and Glasgow Coma Scale.
• Haematoma management and post op care.
• Nursing management of patients on ventilator.
• Manage IV fluid calculations and drug calculations.
• Ability to take Care of Intravenous lines and Central lines,
• Perform Endotracheal and oral suctioning.
• Awareness on DVT prophylaxis and FAST HUG protocols.
• Assisting for pace maker insertion and assisting Different modes of Oxygenation.
• Interpret Arterial Blood Gas values.
• Thrombophlebitis and Nursing management.
• Perform drainage, ROMOVAC drain monitoring and intake and output documentation.
• Storage, administration and disposal of Narcotics.

Qualification & Experience

• Education: Diploma / Bachelor’s degree in nursing
• Registration: Valid registration in the State Nursing Council from where B.Sc. Nursing/GNM was completed.
• Experience: Minimum 5 years of clinical experience.