Job Description
Responsibilities: (Performing Supervisor Role)
- Ensure all nursing staff supervised comply with the policies and procedures established by TIH; monitor staff discipline including uniforms, attendance and punctuality and overall performance.
- Periodically review department’s policies, procedures, job descriptions etc. and recommend revisions as required.
- Report incidents to senior management as necessary.
- Monitor consumption of medication and general store.
- Assign staff duties, make nursing staff duty roster, utilize present pool of staff in order to avoid necessary staff overtime.
- Implement the Ward Teaching Program (CBO) for the nursing staff in coordination with Nursing Education Services; participate in clinical teaching and staff development of nursing staff.
- Counsel and guide all nursing staff.
- Round regularly; escort special visitors on hospital rounds.
- Coordinate with other departments to ensure the efficient working of the wards (maintenance, billing, etc.).
- Ensure proper hand over of patients (bed to bed) and ward inventory in every shift. Conduct random checks and report discrepancies to the management.
- Review reports from the Nursing Shift Incharge of the evening and night shifts; report all incidents to the management.
- Keep the Nursing Manager informed of any special needs of the ward under his / her charge.
- Supervise day-to-day nursing activities of the nursing staff in accordance with current guidelines and regulations of TIH
- Continually observes the general condition of patients; supervises bed-to-bed patients of staff.