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Assistant Nurse / Senior Assistant Nurse / Principal Assistant Nurse (All Settings)* (JR785) - Alexandra Hospital

  • Full Time, onsite
  • NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM PTE. LTD.
  • Singapore, Singapore
Salary undisclosed

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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

If the role sounds interesting to you, please contact '[email protected]' to understand more on the role. Please indicate the position that you are interested in the subject heading.