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Rhea Healthcare; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 400,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Rhea Healthcare in Bengaluru is seeking an experienced LDR Nurse Lead to ensure smooth functioning of the Labour and Delivery room. You will oversee handovers, plan resource deployment, and coordinate with clinicians to meet patient and consultant needs.

You will supervise staffing, ensure availability of equipment and materials, administer medications, and monitor fetal well-being with CTG interpretation. The role emphasizes infection control, patient safety, and accurate record-keeping.

Qualifications

• Experience in neonatal and maternal care settings.
• Proficient in infection control and cleanliness.
• Familiar with NABH and Nursing Excellence standards.
• Ability to coordinate multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Oversee handover and shift takeover.
• Plan resource deployment to meet patient and consultant needs.
• Ensure staffing, materials and equipment availability.
• Administer medications and assist in labor support.
• Monitor fetal heart rate and manage newborn resuscitation when needed.
• Maintain accurate clinical records and reports.
• Ensure infection control and patient safety protocols.
• Supervise nurses for task execution and competency.

Skills

Handover management

Resource planning

Staffing optimization

Infection control

NABH standards

Neonatal care

CTG interpretation

Medication safety

Patient confidentiality

Job description

Responsible for the smooth functioning of LDR.

Adherence to Nursing Clinical standards:

• Ensures professional handover and takeover of shift.
• Understands patient & consultant requirements and plans resource deployment to meet the need.
• Ensures efficient staffing, material, and equipment availability.
• Works with Clinicians to design the new-born delivery plan; required to administer medication, induce labour, monitoring fetal heart rate, assist with epidural injection.
• Reviews the doctors notes and the drug chart and acts as required.
• Prepares nursing care plans and renders effective bedside nursing care.
• Experienced and efficient in handling neonates and new mothers; capable of CTG interpretation.
• Competently manage nurse patient ratio.
• Ensures nurses are competent and can handle tasks assigned to them.
• Ensures nurses follow the protocols without exception.
• Assigns duty ensuring mix of experience and skill, senior and junior, per shift.
• Ensures timely completion of all tasks.
• Ensures NS is informed of any incidents immediately.
• Provides accurate, timely information to HoD and concerned stakeholders.
• Provides moral support to the mother and family.
• Provides clinical inputs on patient condition to consultant.
• Coordinates neo-natal resuscitation.
• Competently handles all equipment and gadgets used in patient care; ensures team is competent in usage; ensures equipment is serviceable and readily available.
• Ensure all gauze pieces & instruments are accounted for, post-delivery nothing to be left inside patient.
• Adheres to the infection control practices; ensures hygiene and sterility of personnel, equipment and environment.
• Maintain records, reports, and registers as per organizational standards.
• Accurately captures data, ensures documentation is complete and correct, tracks Nursing Quality Indicators and reports accurately.
• Accurately maintain records of all procedures, birth register, still births, incidents, foetus disposal.
• Submits reports as per timelines.
• Ensures still-born fetus disposal is as per protocol.
• Coordinates and documents samples for genetic analysis.
• Aware of NABH & Nursing Excellence standards and implements the same.
• Conduct cross audits within Nursing.
• Responsible for Inventory management & cost control, ensuring no wastage and misuse.
• Adherence to Drug control usage policy.
• Ensures medication safety and practices patient safety protocols.
• Aware of the following: Barrier Nursing, Patient and Self Safety, neonatal death.
• Maintains confidentiality of patient information - medical and personal. Will ensure no violation by desisting from discussion of patient identifiable information in non-secure areas.
• Promptly addresses errors and takes corrective action.

Address :- Sarjapur (Sree Narayana Naragr)