Registered Nurse – OPD (OB-GYN)

Job Description

Job Description

  • Be responsible for providing and coordinating patient care, educating patients and the public about various health conditions, and providing advice and emotional support to patients and their family members.
  • Assess and identify patients’ needs and implement and monitor the patient’s medical plan and treatment. They will work with a team of physicians and other health care specialists or allied health in various settings
  • Perform systematic patient assessment and collect pertinent data about the patient’s health or situation.
  • Understand and analyze the assessment information and data
  • Determine actual and potential nursing diagnoses, problems, and issues
  • Define the predicted and expected outcomes of the patient’s planned care
  • Create and evaluate patient care plans with the medical team
  • Record vital signs, recognize and address abnormalities
  • Define the care plan in collaboration with the healthcare team, patients, and families. 
  • Maintain and update the technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice 
  • Employ strategies to promote patients’ health and a safe environment.
  • Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory exams
  • Perform essential life support (BLS
  • Prepare patients for medical examination and treatment 
  • Administer medications and monitor patients for any side effects and reactions
  • Administer treatments such as IV fluids or blood products and monitor patients for any reactions 
  • Provide wound care management 
  • Assist in medical procedures invasive or non-invasive as needed 
  • Facilitate the process of safe patient`s admission and discharge 
  • Assists doctors during specific procedures performed in the outpatient department.
  • Responsible for assessment and reassessment of patients.
  • Performs initial assessment of patients, includes baseline observations and CTG if required.
  • Ability to identify and promptly report obstetric emergencies to the doctor.
  • Performs nursing procedures with attention to accuracy in patient safety and comfort.
  • Ensures strict aseptic techniques are followed while performing various gynecological and obstetrical procedures.
  • Responsible for maintaining clean unit as per infection control and waste management policy of the hospital.
  • Demonstrates in-depth knowledge in the nursing care of patients undergoing gynecological and obstetrical procedures. 
  • Provides appropriate health teaching to patient and family about further management and care.
  • Prepares, administers and documents medication as per hospital policy, if given to the patient.
  • Perform the Appropriateness review of medications before preparing and administering medications as required.

Responsibilities

  • Be responsible for providing and coordinating patient care, educating patients and the public about various health conditions, and providing advice and emotional support to patients and their family members.
  • Assess and identify patients’ needs and implement and monitor the patient’s medical plan and treatment. They will work with a team of physicians and other health care specialists or allied health in various settings
  • Perform systematic patient assessment and collect pertinent data about the patient’s health or situation.
  • Understand and analyze the assessment information and data
  • Determine actual and potential nursing diagnoses, problems, and issues
  • Define the predicted and expected outcomes of the patient’s planned care
  • Create and evaluate patient care plans with the medical team
  • Record vital signs, recognize and address abnormalities
  • Define the care plan in collaboration with the healthcare team, patients, and families. 
  • Maintain and update the technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice 
  • Employ strategies to promote patients’ health and a safe environment.
  • Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory exams
  • Perform essential life support (BLS
  • Prepare patients for medical examination and treatment 
  • Administer medications and monitor patients for any side effects and reactions
  • Administer treatments such as IV fluids or blood products and monitor patients for any reactions 
  • Provide wound care management 
  • Assist in medical procedures invasive or non-invasive as needed 
  • Facilitate the process of safe patient`s admission and discharge 
  • Assists doctors during specific procedures performed in the outpatient department.
  • Responsible for assessment and reassessment of patients.
  • Performs initial assessment of patients, includes baseline observations and CTG if required.
  • Ability to identify and promptly report obstetric emergencies to the doctor.
  • Performs nursing procedures with attention to accuracy in patient safety and comfort.
  • Ensures strict aseptic techniques are followed while performing various gynecological and obstetrical procedures.
  • Responsible for maintaining clean unit as per infection control and waste management policy of the hospital.
  • Demonstrates in-depth knowledge in the nursing care of patients undergoing gynecological and obstetrical procedures. 
  • Provides appropriate health teaching to patient and family about further management and care.
  • Prepares, administers and documents medication as per hospital policy, if given to the patient.
  • Perform the Appropriateness review of medications before preparing and administering medications as required.

Qualifications

  • Have an appropriate license to work as a nurse in the relevant regulatory health authority (DoH, DHA) with all the qualification and experience this mandates.
  • Manage their own professional revalidation
  • Have basic life support qualification (within past 24 months)
  • Have an active interest in the clinical field in which they are employed