- Location
- Ampang Puteri Specialist Hospital, Malaysia
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Healthcare
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Education
- Bachelor
- Source
- Workday
Description
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Responsible for rendering professional nursing care to patients within an assigned unit of the hospital. Such nursing care is an integral part of the individualized holistic patient care plan as directed by the medical staff according to the Policies and Procedures of the hospital and in keeping with the generally accepted principles, policies and procedures of the Nursing Services.
JOB DESCRIPTION
ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT
- Understands and carries out the nursing care in line with Vision and Mission Statements, Goals and Objectives that suit the scope of the Nursing Services.
- Works shift duties or as assigned by Unita Manager according to Unit's Operational Hours.
- Inform Unit Manager when change occurs in circumstances which affect standards of care.
Visits every patient in the unit together with the team members on taking over of duties to:
Assess condition of patients, compare with report.
Re-plan nursing care according to assessment or evaluation
Determines nursing priorities and plans patient care according to patient's needs and staff availability
- Provides individualized holistic care to patients using the Nursing Process approach with proper nursing documentation in patients files and that it is contemporaneous.
- Reports all abnormal findings and progress of patients to the relevant doctors/consultants.
- Conducts regular nursing rounds on all patients in the ward to ascertain other additional needs; talk to patient/family members as an integral part of providing emotional support.
- Follows doctors / consultants round and assists them in doing procedures when required.
- Carries out orders of doctors / consultants pertaining to care of patients and delegates to other team members according to their assignments.
- Liaises and discusses with the relevant doctors/consultants with regards to care of patients in the unit/ward.
- Establishes and develops effective communication with all disciplines, patients and relatives, to achieve optimal patient satisfaction.
- Attends and participates in unit meetings, dialogue sessions and hospital activities.
- Participates in the health education of patients and their families in the ward.
- Assists the Unit Manager in the administration of the unit / wards when assigned as shift nurse in charge.
- Acts on behalf of the Unit Manager in setting standards and expectations in the quality of care.
- Carries out duties and responsibilities of the Unit Manager in her absence as directed.
- Ensure charges of equipment/consumable items into patient's charges accordingly and checked for completeness.
- Responsible for checking and documenting supply of sterile packs from CSSS and weekly checking for integrity of packaging.
- Maintains and documents adequate supply of unit stock
- Carries out assignments scheduled by Unit Manager and provide feedback.
JOB REQUIREMENT
Education:
Registered with the Nursing Board of Malaysia with a valid license to practice as a Registered Nurse
Post Basic qualification in a related field
Bachelor Of Nursing
Knowledge and Experiences:
Registered Nurse with at least 3 years of clinical experience and diversity in clinical experience.
Skills & Competencies:
Possess certifications in BLS, ACLS, MTLS, PALS and NRP (according to the specialties)
Special skills required
Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
Caring, honest, and responsible workers and team players
Microsoft Office literacy
Willingness to work on scheduled hours, shift, and weekend, public holidays, on-call and anytime when called during emergency.
