Staff Nurse

**Job Function**

Healthcare

**Reference Number**

MWS/45

**Advertised**

2 hours ago

**Experience Required**

1 to 3 years

**Minimum Qualification**

Advanced Diploma

**Job description**

**Job purpose**
- The jobholder is responsible to provide personalized and cost-effective care to the residents in the nursing home in accordance to established policies and procedures, standards of nursing care and practices. He/she deputizes the NM in her absence.

**Duties and responsibilities**

**Primary Responsibilities and Duties (80%)**
- Complies with approved standards of nursing practices
- Provides nursing services requiring substantial and specialised nursing skills
- Works closely with resident’s doctor and multidisciplinary team to provide care to the residents
- Updates on changes in resident’s conditions and needs.
- Ensures care delivery and nursing interventions as outlined in the care plan.
- Evaluates the resident’s response to care interventions and recommends revision of care plan as necessary.
- Works with Allied Health professionals and/ or initiate preventive and rehabilitative nursing procedures.
- Carries out and supervise assessments of new admissions.
- Prepares and administers medications to residents and comply with safe medication practices.
- Responsible for safe keeping of control drugs.
- Participates in training and development of care staff.
- Manages any emergency that arises and ensure prompt actions to mitigate the situation and escalate promptly to supervisor, where necessary.
- Works with staff to maintain a safe and clean environment in the nursing home.

**Secondary Responsibilities and duties (20%)**
- Participates in quality assurance activities to monitor and evaluate the quality and appropriateness of nursing care.
- Participates in quality audits that are planned and conducted periodically.
- Prepares roster and daily staff assignment for the ward/dept
- Contributes to the evaluation of staff performance appraisal with Nurse Manager
- Deputizes the NM in his/her absence.
- Assumes additional responsibilities as assigned by Nursing Manager, Senior Nurse Manager, and Director (Nursing)

**Job Requirements**

**Qualifications**
- Locally Trained Registered Nurse with Advanced Diploma in Nursing/Bachelor’s degree in Nursing.
- Foreign Trained Registered Nurse with Degree or Diploma in Nursing with Board Pass (Professional Regulation Council, PRC)
- Full Registration with Singapore Nursing Board with valid Praacticing Certificate

**Working conditions**
- Ward environment in a Nursing Home

**Physical requirements**
- Physically fit

**Core competencies**
- Perform ward operation activities of daily living
- Maintain professional & ethical nursing practices
- Intervention during emergency and resuscitation
- Safe medication management
- Pain management continuance management and fall risk prevention and management

**Technical Competencies**
- Basic computer skill