Registered Nurse- Pediatric Ward

Registered Nurse will:

• 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, re-assessment and collect pertinent data about the patient’s health or situation.

• Understand and analyse 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 interprofessional team, in collaboration with the patient and patient's bystanders.

• Record vital signs, recognize, address and escalate all abnormalities.

• Maintain and update technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice.

• Employ strategies to promote patients’ health and a safe environment.

• Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory examinations.

• Perform essential life support as per regulatory requirements and scope such as but not limited to Basic Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Neonatal Resuscitation etc.

• 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, transfer and discharge.

Paediatric Nurse will:

• Deliver duties that focus on the protection, promotion, and optimization of the health of children from new-born age through young adulthood.

• Deliver care focused on patient and family-centred approaches.

• Educate mothers and families to protect the paediatric patient from injuries.

• Manage diseases (as part of an interdisciplinary team) to restore heath, and maximizing comfort.

• Support children and families to adopt strategies to support self-care and physical and cognitive development

• Administer prescribed medication and monitor the patient's progress

• Assessing growth patterns

• Evaluating developmental milestones and educating parents about normal growth and development

Eliciting comprehensive health histories