- Ensure delivery of safe, evidence-based nursing care to all admitted patients
- Monitor patient acuity and allocate nursing staff accordingly
- Ensure timely clinical escalation of deteriorating patients
- Conduct daily ward rounds with duty doctors / consultants
- Supervise medication administration and adherence to clinical protocols
- Ensure patient and attendant education at admission and discharge
- Prepare and manage duty rosters and shift allocations
- Ensure optimal nurse-patient ratio
- Manage leave planning and emergency replacements
- Mentor junior nurses and evaluate performance
- Ensure competency mapping and skill mix in the ward
- Coordinate admissions, transfers, and discharges
- Liaise with Patient Services, Billing, Diagnostics, Pharmacy, and Housekeeping
- Ensure availability of ward equipment, consumables, and emergency drugs
- Escalate infrastructure or biomedical issues promptly
- Ensure completeness of nursing records, care plans, and checklists
- Monitor consent forms, medication charts, intake-output charts, and nursing notes
- Participate in internal audits and NABH assessments
- Close audit non-conformities related to nursing
- Enforce hand hygiene, PPE use, biomedical waste segregation
- Monitor HAI indicators and report incidents
- Conduct safety rounds and mock drills
- Ensure adherence to fall prevention, pressure injury prevention, and ID protocols
- Address patient and attendant grievances at ward level
- Support service recovery initiatives
- Coordinate feedback collection and PREM / PROM processes
- Maintain ward discipline, etiquette, and environment
- Track ward KPIs (falls, medication errors, complaints, infection rates)
- Conduct ward-level training sessions
- Participate in quality improvement projects
- Submit daily census and ward reports
- Maintain ward inventory
- Support credentialing of ward nursing staff
- Ensure compliance with hospital policies
- Assist Nursing Head during inspections and statutory visits
Qualifications
Education: GNM / BSc Nursing with KNC
Experience: Overall 10 years as Nurse in Hospital and a minimum of 1 year as a Nurse Incharge is mandatory.
Must have skills
- Strong clinical judgment
- Leadership & team management
- Patient handling
- Documentation discipline
- Infection control awareness
- Conflict management
- Communication
- Decision making under pressure
