Senior Staff Nurse - Home Care and Home Hospice

Responsibilities

• Direct Patient Care
• Provide independent clinical assessment of patients and formulate individualized plans of care within the scope of practice for a Registered Nurse and in consultation with the multi-disciplinary team, referring appropriately for internal or external services as necessary.
• Perform clinical procedures as required for patient care.
• Perform on-call duties on a rostered basis to provide out of office hours phone call support to patients and escalating emergent cases to on-call doctor as necessary.
• Other Indirect Clinical responsibilities
• Assist Nurse Manager/Assistant Nurse Manager in duties including but not limited to nursing consumables inventory, controlled drug storage/tracking and guiding junior staff nurses in performing their duties.
• Competency Development and training
• Completion of required competency training within the stipulated time frame.
• Track learning hours and proactively look out for learning opportunities to meet development requirements.
• Assist Nurse Clinician/Assistant Nurse Clinician in duties of clinical audits and clinical supervisions and guiding of junior staff nurses in performing their duties periodically.
• Quality Improvement
• Proactively participate in QI and audit projects undertaken by the HC/HH team, taking up the role of assistant project manager if necessary
• Any other tasks that may arise as part of MWS HC/HH service requirements.
• JOB REQUIREMENTS
• Registered with Singapore Nursing Board
• Minimum 5 years of Nursing work exposure and minimum 2 years of community health care work exposure
• Specialist/Advanced Diploma in Gerontology, Palliative Care or equivalent preferred
• Physically fit (Able to carry 10kg luggage bag)
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Good team player

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