PATIENT CARE • Overall planning of nursing care of the patient in the unit. • Maintaining cleanliness & sanitation of the unit. • Rendering direct care to seriously ill patients as & when situation arises. • Taking handover from the night shift in-charge. • Taking bed to bed rounds. • Supervising dietary arrangement & proper serving of diet. • Taking care of the health teaching programme to the patients & their relatives in her unit. • Co-ordinating patient care with other team members. • Assisting doctors at the time of their rounds. • Specially responsible for the care of acutely ill & seriously ill patients of the unit. WARD ADMINISTRATION • Preparing duty roster of the staff nurses & student nurses. • Checking the attendance of all nurses of the unit. • Allocating the bed to the nurses of each shift. • Maintaining stock of equipment, medicines & linen. • Indenting for supplies required for the running of the unit. • Ensuring disposal of waste, prevention of misuse & loss of articles & medicine. • Reporting any case of indiscipline, theft or loss to the higher management. • Coordinating the orientation programme of the new staff, students & making arrangement for continuous on-the-job training. • Making arrangement for keeping patient belongings in a safe custody as per laid down policy of the hospital. • Supervising, guiding & directing the work of the nurses. • Maintaining daily census. • Coordinating with other departments for ease of operation. • Taking care of the practical part of the nursing training. • Assisting to organize health teaching programme for patients & their relatives. • Organize ward teaching programme for staff nurses & students. • Taking care of the in service classes & nursing research programmes.