This vacancy is under the Career Conversion Programme for Enrolled Nurses. Please do not apply to this job posting. If interested, please apply through the CCP website at https://go.gov.sg/ccp-en
Overview
The incumbent will be responsible to assist the nursing team in providing personalized, specialised and costeffective care to the patients in accordance to established hospital policies and procedures, standards of nursing care and practices.
Primary Responsibility
- Assists 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.
- Practices safe care within own level of competency
- Adhere to proper use and care of equipment
- Maintains a clean and safe working environment
Secondary Responsibility
- Performs basic computer updates according to patient’s care
- Participates in continuing professional development activities to maintain competency in areas of practice
- Participates in quality improvement activities
- Performs any other additional duties as assigned by Unit Nurse Leader
