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.