Overview
You will be responsible to assist the nursing team in providing personalized, specialised and cost-effective care to the patients in accordance to established hospital policies and procedures, standards of nursing care and practices.
Job Responsibilities
Primary Responsibilities:
Assist the Registered Nurse (RN) in the following:
· Admission, transfer and discharge of patients
· Patient care activities such as monitoring, documenting and reporting of patients’ conditions and progress; escalating and notifying RN of all unusual observations or happenings
· Preparation of trolleys and equipment for ward-based procedures e.g. blood culture, CVP / PICC, intra-pleural drain, lumbar puncture etc
· Perioperative care e.g. preoperative preparation, sending and receiving patients from operating theatres / endoscopy
· Perform basic cardiac life support
· Attends to patients’ care needs in their activities of living, such as bathing, feeding and toileting, skin care, lifting, mobilising and transportation
· Applies critical thinking skills during problem solving
· Practices safe care within own level of competency
· Displays compassion, a positive and caring attitude towards patients
· Adhere to proper use and care of equipment
· Maintains a clean and safe working environment
Secondary Responsibilities:
·Participates in continuing professional development activities to maintain competency in areas of practice
· Participates in continuous quality improvement activities and research process
· Supervise and guide nursing students, new joiners, graduated enrolled nurses and junior staff in their work
· Performs any other additional duties as assigned by Nurse Management Team
Requirements
· Recognised Enrolled Nurse Certificate or equivalent as approved by the Singapore Nursing Board (SNB)
· At least 2 years working experience in acute setting
· Good interpersonal and communication skills
· Compassionate, positive and caring nature
· Prepared to work on 3 rotating shifts
· Fresh Local ITE graduates welcomed to apply
If the role sounds interesting to you, please contact ‘[email protected]’ to understand more on the role. Please indicate the position that you are interested in the subject heading.
