Liji Daniel

• Provide leadership and support for care staff and act as a champion for residents’ safety and dignity.
• To maintain skills and knowledge and ensure that care is delivered according to latest guidelines and best practice evidence available.
• Ensure the ongoing safety of residents, staff and visitors through systematic assessment, monitoring and reviewing processes.
• Ensure that clear and accurate records and communication systems relating to clinical and care delivery are maintained and effectively used.

I worked in HDU as a senior staff nurse and this is what my day in the unit looks like. The unit is based in SRI LAKSHMI Hospital, it is a ten bedded HDU with medical and surgical patients or those requiring specialist monitoring and treatment.

The School Nurse is a priority position within any school in order to ensure a complete service of care to the students and the maintenance of a healthy school environment. To assist the School Doctor in the physical/medical examination of students, the first aid and

emergency care, the prevention and control of communicable diseases and the maintenance of all records and reports. To monitor the maintenance of cleanliness and hygiene within the school, be available to staff to address immediate medical needs, establish procedures for providing first aid and refer accidents and illness appropriately to the School Doctor or hospitals

• Manage and coordinate nurse schedule
• Assign patients to nurses
• Ensure adherence to all relevant nursing standards
• Maintain quality assurance of nursing documentation and client records
• Create reports for senior management
• Ensure compliance with nursing policies and procedures
• Educate and train new nurses
• Evaluate nurses' engagement and performance
• Inform patients' family members about medical procedures and doctors' instructions
• Provide psychological and emotional support to patients and their family and friends
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Assisting the medical team to resuscitate the patient by giving CPR. • Inserting continuous bladder drainage for the critically ill patients & patients with incontinence and retention of urine. • Inserting Ryle's tube for critically ill patients for feeding to maintaining nutrition and administering oral medications. • Inserting intra venous cannula for administering IV fluids and IV medications. • Analysing the electrolytes and correcting. • Proper collection and sending of blood and other body fluids for laboratory investigations • Hourly monitoring of vital signs, spo2, central venous pressure, left atrial pressure, pulmonary arterial pressure, cardiac output etc. Caring the babies on incubator• Reliving pain by administrating analgesics and sedatives. • Maintaining intake and output chart

• Recognize the signs of deterioration in unstable patients.
• Give first aid, CPR, or other emergency medical care as needed.
• Give emergency medications.
• Give IV fluids or blood.
• Perform wound care
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• Monitored mechanical ventilators and artificial airway equipment.
• Provided support and counselling to patients and family members as required.
• Administered pulse oximetry and oxygen therapy as required.
• Took all appropriate steps for infection prevention and control.
• Performed all tasks in coordination with attending physician staff