APARNA K

Staff Nurse in OPD, Medical Surgical Ward and Medical ICU. I am having 8 Years’ experience in hospital field and clinical field.

• Key Responsibilities of an Infection Control Nurse
• 1. Surveillance and Monitoring
• Identify and report outbreaks of infectious diseases.
• Collect and analyze data to detect trends and implement corrective actions.
• 2. Policy Development and Implementation
• Assist in the development and revision of infection control policies and procedures.
• Ensure that infection control practices are in line with local regulations and best practices.
• 3. Outbreak Management
• Lead the response to infectious disease outbreaks within the hospital.
• Coordinate with relevant departments to implement containment measures.
• Key Responsibilities of a Staff Nurse
• Interviews patients or their families to complete a medical history and to make psychosocial and physical assessment.
• Identifies and documents changes in patients' health, especially those which interfere with the individuals' ability to meet basic needs.
• Establishes a priority of care based on identified needs.
• Provides direct patient care to individuals with well-defined and varied health problems in a structured setting.
• Uses established criteria to evaluate patient care; modifies plan of care as necessary and documents changes.
• Carries out the prescribed care according to established nursing practices; contacts physicians to report significant changes in patient health.
• Meets with family, significant others, and members of the nursing team to establish and evaluate short and long-range treatment goals.
• Bed side nursing care to assigned stable patients in the unit based on basic assessment and evaluating the outcomes
• Provide routine care for all patients admitted in ICU
• Make Intake and output chart after monitoring the fluid and electrolyte balance
• Monitoring vital signs and report any deviation from normal to the concerned team leader
• Administer medications and treatments to the patient as prescribed by the physician.
• Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) in case of emergency.
• Conduct nursing interventions like wound drainage, catheterization and medication administration to delegated patient within the scope of practice.
• Specimen collection and send to the laboratory for the test, record the results accurately.