Staff Nurse- Ward

Max Healthcare; Mumbai; On-site; INR 400,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

Max Healthcare in Mumbai looks for a devoted nurse to assess and support patients and families through the health care journey, including antenatal, intra-natal and postnatal care. The role involves documenting changes, guiding care plans, and collaborating with the health team to ensure quality patient outcomes.

You will provide education to mothers and families, advocate for patients, manage priorities, and participate in professional activities while maintaining ethical practice and

Responsibilities

• Assesses the patients' adaptation to health/illness process.
• Identifies deviations from normal based on diagnostic data.
• Establishes a nursing diagnosis based on assessment data.
• Identifies anxieties and coping behaviors.
• Plans and implements teaching based on patient development level.
• Communicates the plan for care to the health team.
• Provides antenatal, intra-natal and postnatal care.
• Monitors and conducts tests on newborns.
• Provides leadership in patient care delivery.
• Collaborates with care disciplines to monitor quality.
• Practices legally and ethically.
• Assists in data collection within established formats.
• Promotes quality nursing practice.
• Functions as patient advocate.
• Duties assigned by Sister in charge.

Job description

• Assesses the patients and / or the significant others adaptation to the health / illness process.
• Identifies, reports and documents changes in the health status which interfere with patients ability to meet basic needs.
• Recognizes deviations from normal based or diagnostic data.
• Establishes a nursing, diagnosis based on need and assessment data.
• Identifies anxieties / fears and coping behavior’s.
• Integrates principles of growth and development in determining nursing needs.
• Enters into the teaching / learning activities that are specific to the patient / significant others level of development, knowledge and learning readiness.
• Supports and reinforces the teaching of other health professionals.
• Participates in determining teaching effectiveness by observing desirable behavior changes; modifies teaching methods / activities appropriately.
• Collects data related to overt, verbal and non-verbal communication of patients and significant others.
• Communicates the plan for care to the health team members in oral and written forms.
• Consults with more experienced registered nurses or other health care professionals

when problems are outside your scope of practice.

• Uses the established lines of authority and communicates in the work setting.
• Uses therapeutic communication skills when collecting data, during nursing intervention and evaluations of effectiveness.
• Communicates reports and records assessment data, nursing care plans, interventions and evaluations accurately and promptly using the established communication systems.
• Interprets hospital and nursing policies and procedures to patients, significant others, staff members and appropriates individual and or groups.
• Identifies and attempts to remove barriers to effective communication.
• Recognizes personal ineffective communication patterns and makes modifications in technique.
• Assesses nursing care priorities.
• Provides antenatal ,intra-natal , post natal care of patients
• Monitoring and performing tests on newborns
• Providing education and support to mothers and families after delivery
• Assesses human and physical resources for care.
• Identifies the significant difference in goals of the health team and the patient family and relates these to the appropriate person.
• Determines the learning needs of the personnel under supervision.
• Delegates to nursing personnel tasks / functions in accordance with their knowledge and demonstrated proficiency.
• Provides leadership in the delivery of patient care.
• Collaborates with nursing and other health care disciplines in the process of monitoring the quality of client care.
• Assists in the collection of data within established formats.
• Uses established findings of nursing studies and / or trends in nursing literature to promote quality of nursing practice.
• Practices legally and ethically within the scope of own practice field.
• Evaluates own performance against established criteria and sets goals for improvement
• Assumes responsibility for own continues learning.
• Recognizes and reports policies and procedures that may impede quality patient care.
• Functions as a patient advocate within the nursing system.
• Participates in professional activities.
• Demonstrates an awareness of current issue and trends in nursing and health care.
• Promotes a professional nursing image in the hospital and community.
• Performs any duties / tasks that may from time to time be assigned by Sister in charge or immediate supervisor.

The occupation requires emotional stability to help patients and their families work through the treatment process and cope with death if treatment fails