MERIECHU LADJABASAL

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provides total patient care as assigned according to core standards of patient care and established policies and evidence-based practices.
• Ensuring provision of optimum clinical care, customer satisfaction and patient safety.
• Monitor patient’s condition and assess their needs to provide best possible care.
• Observe and interpret patient’s symptoms and communicate them to physicians.
• Collaborate with physicians and nurses to devise individualized care plans for patients.
• Documents patient’s condition and effectiveness of care and/or interventions correctly, appropriately, and in timely manner.
• Perform routine procedures (vital signs, ECG, blood extraction, administering injections etc.) and fill in patients’ information in EPR (Electronic Patient Record).
• Adjust and administer patient’s medication and provide treatments according to physician’s orders.
• Evaluates and updates patient’s plan of care to facilitate achievement of planned and expected outcomes.
• Assesses for and plans educational needs of patient.
• Provides teaching and educational material to patients and/or families, which may include diagnosis, tests and procedures, safe and proper use of equipment, use of medications, injury prevention and nutritional needs.
• Demonstrates collaborative multi-disciplinary partnerships working towards achievements of constant improvement in quality patient care.
• Acts as advocate for patients and families. Identifies ideas that will improve quality of patient care and issues that will negatively affect patient care outcomes, using professional practice framework.
• Promotes safe environment and safe patient care by embracing safety culture and identifying areas of risk to head nurse or designee. Complies with policies for personal and patient safety and for prevention of healthcare associated infections.
• Contributes to achievement of cost efficiency savings on unit. Maintains awareness of resource utilization, exercising care in ordering and use of staff, equipment, and materials.
• Contributes to achievement of clinical quality outcome indicators and patient satisfaction. Leads unit-based Performance Improvement activities as assigned.
• Participates in new staff/nursing student orientation aimed at developing competence and performance. Assists in maintaining suitable learning environment and acts as preceptor/mentor in supervision and teaching of nursing students and new staff to develop their competence .
• Reports equipment failures, safety and security issues, and/or reduction of supply inventory to Head Nurse or designee.
• Foster supportive and compassionate environment to care for patients and their families.
• Maintains confidentiality regarding patients and families.
• Expand knowledge and capabilities by attending educational workshops, conferences etc.
• Respond to life-saving situations based upon nursing standard and protocol.

Postoperative Duties of PACU Nurse

Detailed Job Description

Preoperative Duties of PACU Nurse

• Manage patients’ admission processes to preoperative department in hospital
• Assess status of patients’ health in pre-op and ensure accuracy of identification wristband.
• Ensure that operative and informed consents are in order
• Determine surgeon and procedure being carried out
• Take and record vital statistics of patients to ensure readiness for surgical procedure
• Initiate IVs and ensure that patients are informed about procedure and attending medical staff.
• Assess patients’ condition after surgery has been performed
• Ensure that all vitals are within normal range
• Log all findings in patients’ files
• Answer patients’ questions and ensure that are kept comfortable
• Make sure that all relevant IVs are in check
• Develop individualized care plans based on each individual patient’s condition
• Ensure that t all-nursing activities are carried out in accordance to individual patient care plan
• Monitor patients for condition changes and report any changes to doctor
• Initiate patient education programs to ensure that both patients and families are educated on procedures and medications
• Determine when patients are ready to be moved to their rooms
• Perform intervention duties in cases of post-operative emergencies
• Record sedation levels and body temperature
• Manage blood and fluid transfusions and draw specimens
• Ensure that post-operative space is clean and sanitized
• Change bandages and dress surgical wounds