Staff Nurse- Ward

4. Principle Duties & Responsibilities

• 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.