DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

OF VARIOUS NURSING
PERSONALS

PRESENTED BY: GUIDED BY:

LUMINA.S Mrs. GAYATHRI
M.SC(N) 2nd YEAR ASST. PROFESSOR
 DEFINITION
DUTY
• A task or action that one is required to perform as
part of one’s job
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• A moral o legal obligation
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RESPONSIBILITY
• The state or fact of being accountable or to blame for
something
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• The opportunity or ability to act independently and
take decisions without authorization
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GENERAL ROLE OF REGISTERED NURSES IN HOSPITAL

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 DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF NURSING PERSONEL IN
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SUPER INCHARGE SISTERS
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CHIEF OF NURSING SERVICE:
Qualification
• GNM/B.Sc(N) recognized by INC
• Basic B.SC(N) by recognized university
• M.SC(N)/ Ph.D in nursing is preferred
• Experience not less than 5 years
Responsible to:
• Management and administration of nursing
department
• Directly to medical superintendent
• Indirectly to the director
Statement of responsibility:
• Planning, organizing and implementing high
standards of care in nursing
• Control over in-service and clinical nursing projects
Supervision exercised:
• Supervision and guidance to the senior nursing staff
to ensure maximum efficiency and productivity,
disciplinary measure in all levels of nursing staff
DUIES AND RESPNSIBILITIES:
• Plan and estimate manpower, material and budget
for nursing and collaborate with other department
• Co-ordinate and control nursing staff and their
activities
• Determine nursing policies to achieve reasonable and
attainable standard of nursing care
• Assess the availability and recruitment of nursing
staff
• Ensure adequate material resources for patient
optimum comfort
• Maintain reports, records and confidential files
• Plan staff developmental program and in-service
education
• Guide supervisors to in carrying out their functions of
teaching and supervision
• Plan and organizes clinical programmes for students
• Co-ordinate, co-operates and collaborate with
multidisciplinary team members
• Prepare master duty rotation plan
• Establish and maintain good IPR with professional and
non professional agencies
• Encourage problem solving attitude among the staff
during her rounds
• Participating teaching and research
• Evaluate activities of nursing service
NURSING SUPERINTENDENT:
Qualification:
• GNM/B.SC(N) recognized by INC
• Basic B.SC (N) from recognized university of INC
• M.SC(N) preferred
Responsible to:
• Nursing service management and CNS and acting as
CNS in her absence
• She/ he is accountable for various nursing
department
• Medical superintendent
Duties and responsibilities:
• Formulation of philosophy
• Supervise nursing staff
• Oversee hiring and training
• Patient care
• Create work schedule
• Make disciplinary decisions
• Manage other departments
• Negotiate with vendors
• Responsible for implementing hospital/centre
policies
• Assist CNS in formulation of nursing policies
• Act as CNS in her absence
• Recommend personnel and material requirement for
various nursing department
• Carry out regular rounds in hospital
• Ensure safe and efficient care rendered to the patient
• Prepare budget for nursing service
• Responsible for counseling and guidance of sub-
ordinate staff
• Attend hospital and intra hospital meeting
• Investigate all the complaints
• Initiate and encourage research
• Evaluate confidential reports
• Maintain cordial relationship with patient and
medico social worker
• Periodically interact with medical head regarding
problems
• Educate nursing staff of all categories
DEPUTY NURSING SUPERITENDENT:
Qualification:
• GNM/B.SC(N) recognized by INC
• Basic B.SC(N) from recognized university by INC
• M.SC(N) preferred
• Experience not less than 5 years
Responsible to:
• Nursing superintendent
• Administration of nursing service
Duties and responsibilities:
• Nursing administration
act as a liaison, receive reports, maintain records
attend official meetings, emergency calls
initiate procedure for condemnation and
procurement
assist in recruitment
• Educational activities
• General duties
escort special visitor
maintain good public relation
arrange and participate in social functions
ASSISTANT NURSING SUPERINTENDENT:
Qualification:
• GNM/B.SC(N) recognized by INC
• M.SC(N) preferred
• Experience not less than 5 years
Responsible to:
• DNS for the total nursing care
• And to management of nursing service
Duties and responsibilities:
Nursing care
• Assist total need of patient care
• Demonstrate and supervise nursing care
• Attend regular rounds
• Reviewing reports
• Give counseling and health education
Ward management:
• Plan and arrange duty
• Ensure availability of adequate nursing staff
• Maintain cleanliness of unit
• Keep inform the needs of patient to DNS and CNS
• Daily check of emergency and dangerous medicine
• Ensure the availability of stock and supplies
• Maintain good IPR with all categories of nursing staff
• Maintain good public relation
• Maintain discipline of unit
• Interpretation of hospital policies
• Daily check of attendance
• Investigate complaints
• Work evaluation
• Guidance and counseling
Teaching and supervision
WARD INCHARGE:
Qualification:
• GNM/B.SC(N) recognized by INC
• Basic B.SC(N) from recognized university by INC
• Experience as staff nurse not less than 5 years
Responsible to:
• DNS and nursing superintendent
• Management of nursing service
Job summary:
• To provide effective and efficient nursing care
• Maintain good communication
• Co-ordinate a range of non clinical tasks
Duties and responsibilities:
Clinical/professional/ specific managerial responsibilities:
• Discuss with nursing staff regarding patient enquiries
• Discuss with supportive service team
• Forward suggestions for quality improvement
• Support the ward sister/charge nurse in the completion
of patient satisfaction surveys and quality of hygiene
• Cooperate in maintaining a safe environment through
adherence to all infection control
• Establish and maintain effective communication networks
within the team and external stakeholders
Generic managerial responsibilities
• Order and maintain ward stock and supplies
• Assessing duties and other administrative paper work
• Use patient centre and other appropriate IT system
• Management of ward sister’s diary
• Maintain accurate up to date records for staff
• Sort and respond to mail as appropriate
• Assist the ward team to deliver effective care
• Dealing with requests and general request for information
and inquiries
• Arrange meeting and make appointments for ward manager
• Service all meetings including the preparation and issues of
agenda, papers and produce minutes
• Photocopying and faxing and filing
• Sorting and processing information
• Ward processing and use of Microsoft office
• Maintain high standards of confidentiality
• Ordering patient transport as requested
• Supporting the ward sister/ change nurse in general
administration
• Maintain notice board and health information racks
• Responsible for secure maintenance of ward
administrative records
• Assist in maintaining a safe environment
• To help maintain a safe environment in accordance
with the health and safety at work order
• To report accident and incident to the nurse in
charge and provide information
• Cooperate with the multidisciplinary team
• Proficient in the patient administration system and
other local and ward based systems
• To cooperate with nursing, medical and auxiliary staff
to ensure that effective relationships are maintained
• To maintain knowledge of and work in accordance
with trust policies and procedures
• To attend in service training programs
• To assist in the induction of new staff to ward
• Ensure that complaints, suggestions or queries
• To undertake any other duties as required under the
direction of the sister
General responsibilities
Equality
health and safety
Infection prevention and control
conduct
Record management
performance
Service quality
environmental cleaning strategy
WARD SISTER:
Qualification:
• GNM/B.SC(N) recognized by INC
Responsible to:
• Ward in charge
• Management of nursing service
Duties and responsibilities of other nursing personals:
• Scrub nurse
• Diabetic nurse
• Dermatology nurse
• Geriatric nurse
• Oncology nurse
• Ambulatory nurse
• Critical care nurse
• Trauma nurse
• Transport nurse
• Holistic nurse
• Home health care nurse
• Hospice and palliative nurse
• Infusion nurse
• Long term care nurse
• Medical surgical nurse
• Recovery nurse
• Circulatory nurse
• occupational health nurse
• Anesthesiology nurse
• Mental health nurse
• Pediatric nurse
• Radiology nurse
• Rehabilitation nurse
• Transplant nurse
• Addictions nurse
• Intellectual and developmental disability nurse
• Genetic nurse
• HIV/AIDS nurse
• Oncology nurse
• Wound, ostomy and continence
• Cardiovascular nurse
• Gynecology nurse
• Nephrology nurse
• Clinical nurse specialist
• Nurse anesthetist
• Nurse midwives
• Nurse practitioner
• Forensic nurse
• Infection control nurse
• Nurse educator
• Nurse informaticists
• Burns nurse
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF NURSES IN COLLEGE

PRINCIPAL:
• Qualification:
• M.sc(N) or equivalent degree
• Ph.D in nursing or equivalent doctoral degree
• 14 years of experience after M.Sc(N)
• 3 years experience in administration
• Years of experience can be relax able if suitable
candidate is not available
• Minimum 5 years of experience in college of nursing
Responsible to:
• Head of college of nursing
• Director of medical education
• Director of health and family welfare services
• Director of the institution
Duties and responsibilities:
• Administration:
• Planning
• Develop philosophy and objectives
• Identify the present needs
• Investigate, evaluate and secure the resources
• Organizing
• Teaching (instruction)
• Guiding
VICE PRINCIPAL:
Qualification:
• Master in nursing/ Ph.D in nursing
• 14 years of experience after M.SC (N)
• 3 years experience in administration
• Minimum 5 years in teaching experience
• Experience can be relax if suitable candidate not
available
Responsible to:
• Principal
• Indirectly to director of medical education
Duties and responsibilities:
• Educational
• Assists principal in planning, implementation and
evaluation of program
• Assists principal in identifying needs for professional
development
• Supervises postgraduate student in research
• Participating in teaching of various educational
programmes
Directing
• Recommends appointment and promotion based on
qualification and experience
• Subscribes and encourages developmental aspects with
reference
• Provide adequate orientation
• Guide and encourage staff members
• Consistently makes administrative decision
• Facilities participation in community, professional and
institutional activities
• Creates involvement in designing educationally sound
program
• Maintenance of attitude rightly acceptable to staff and
learners
• Promotes staff participation
• Procures and maintains physical facilities
Co-ordinating
• Co-ordinates activities relating to the program
• Initiates ways of cooperation
• Interprets nursing education to other related
disciplines and to the public
Controlling
• Provides for continuous follow up and revision of
education program
• Maintains recognition of the educational program
• Maintains a comprehensive system of records
• Supervises all educational programmes in
coordination with the coordination
• Guides faculty in day to day academic activities
Supervisory
• Shares responsibility with principal and professor in
supervision of teaching and nonteaching staff
• Plans academic staff assignment in consultation with
principal
• Participates in conduct of orientation program
• Supervise and guide the staffs
• Writes staff performance report and reviews
evaluation report
• Assist principal in monitoring students welfare
activities
• Assist principal in administration and supervision
Establishment
• Assist principal maintain rules and regulations
• Supervise overall functioning of staff
• Assist in maintaining discipline
• Assist in reviewing recruitment
Financial
• Assist principal in carryout financial activities
• Planning and revising budget
• Monitoring college expenditure
Interpersonal
• Assist in maintaining IPR
• Identify conflict and facilitate guidance and counseling
etc…
PROFESSOR:
• Qualification:
• M.SC (N)/Ph.D preferred
• 14 years experience in teaching
• Responsible to principal/ vice principal
Duties and responsibilities:
Instruction
• Identifying needs of learners
• Assist learners in identifying their needs
• Develop plan for earning experience
• Participate in formulation and implementation of
philosophy
• Select and organize learning experience
• Participate in continuous development and evaluation
of curriculum
• Ascertains, selects and organizes facilities, equipment
and materials necessary for learning
Helping the learners to acquire desirable
attitude, knowledge and skills
• Create a climate conductive to learning
• Assist learners in using problem solving techniques
• Uses varied and appropriate teaching methods
• Uses incidental and planned opportunities for
teaching
• Encourages learners to assume increasing
responsibility for own development
• Evaluating learners progress
• Recording and reporting
• Guidance
• Counseling
• Investigate ways to improve teaching
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
• Qualification:
• Master in nursing
• 7 years of teaching experience
Responsible to:
• Professor/ HOD
Duties and responsibilities
• Administration
• Instruction
• Evaluation
• Guidance
• Counseling
• research
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
• Master in nursing
• 5 years of experience in teaching
Responsible to:
• Professor
• HOD
Duties and responsibilities
• Administration
• Instruction
• Helping learners in studies
• Evaluation of progress
• Recording and reporting
• Guidance
• Counseling
• research
SENIOR TUTOR:
• Master in nursing/ B.sc (N)
• 3 years of teaching experience
• Responsible to HOD
Duties and responsibilities
• Participating in teaching and supervising the courses
of UG students
• Participate in curriculum development, evaluation
and revision
• Guide in research projects of UG students
• Acts as a counselor for staff and student
• Maintains various records
• Conducting and participating in various departmental
meeting and attending various meeting
• Participating in administration activities of
department
TUTOR:
• Master degree in Nursing
• Registered in state nursing council/ INC
Duties and responsibilities:
• Participate in teaching and supervising the courses of
UG students
• Co-ordinates with the external lecture or various
courses
• Participates in the evaluation
• Guide students in conducting seminar, discussion and
presentation etc…
• Maintain student records
• Participate in student counseling programmes
CLINICAL INSTRUCTOR:
• M.Sc Nursing/B.Sc Nursing recognized by SNC/INC
• Demonstrate standards
• Supervise and teach the students in the clinical fields
• Participate in evaluation students
• Assist students in conducting health education
• Maintain student records
• Participate in student counseling
• Participate and promote student welfare activities