Assistant Nurse / Senior Assistant Nurse / Principal Assistant Nurse (All Settings)*

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

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