STATE REGISTERED NURSE, SPECIAL CARE NURSERY

Accountable for assisting registered nurses in providing professional nursing care to patients within a hospital unit, adhering to hospital policies and nursing services principles, policies, and procedures to ensure high-quality care is practiced.

• Adherence to nursing care vision, mission, goals, and objectives, aligns with the scope of nursing services and performs shift duties as assigned by the Unit Manager to ensure high-quality care rendered. 

• Notifies the unit manager of any changes in the situation that could impact the standards of care.

• Obtains and handovers a report of patient progress in the nursery, ensuring all doctor's orders are followed before changing or overtaking shifts and notifying of any incidents or problems encountered. 

• Assist the registered nurse in providing attentive care to newborns and infants, monitoring vital signs, and infant feeding, performing dressing changes, assisting with patient admissions, transfers, and discharges, collecting specimens, obtaining laboratory results, maintaining documentation, and reporting abnormal findings. 

• Conducts nursing rounds on patients, providing emotional support and accompanying doctors while doing rounds in the absence of a registered nurse, as well as assisting in procedures as needed. 

• Manage patient diets, including meal planning for new admissions, discharges, post-operative cases, and expired patients, assist in tube feeding, monitor and document fluid intake and output accurately, and oversee dietary staff while meals are served. 

• Participates in the health education of patients and their families, unit meetings, dialogue sessions, and hospital activities. 

• Collaborate with the unit manager in maintaining accurate records of linen, equipment, and medical supplies, condemning old or unusable items for disposal if necessary, accompanying patients to other services or services for diagnostic investigations, carrying out assigned tasks, and providing feedback. 

• Charge accurately, incorporating charges for equipment and consumable items into the patient's charges and verifying their completeness. 

• Inspect and document the supply of sterile packs to ensure the integrity of the packaging and maintain an adequate supply of unit stock from central sterile supply services. 

JOB REQUIREMENT

Education:

• Registered with the Nursing Board of Malaysia with a valid license to practice as a State Enrolled Nurse.

Knowledge and Experiences:

• Experience working in a hospital setting is an advantage

Skills & Competencies:

• Possess certifications in BLS, ACLS, PALS and NRP

Special skills are required.

• Proficient in writing and conversing in English and Bahasa Malaysia.

• Microsoft Office literacy