Usually, at registration of the labor contractemployed in the hospital, the average medical staff is invited to study the functional duties of the nurse. This is necessary in order to avoid possible conflicts between the administration of the medical institution and the new employee. After all, in an employment contract, as a rule, not all the features of the work provided are formulated clearly and completely. In the official instruction, the duties of the nurse are detailed and as specific as possible.
Suppose, in practice, the work of hospitals is oftenthere are controversial situations about the delineation of the functions of procedural nurses and nurses. If, for example, it is the responsibility of the nurse to clean the treatment room, then the procedural nurse must be exempted from this labor function, and, accordingly, the cleaning point of the work area in her employment contract is excluded.
So, according to the job description, the functional duties of the nurse working in the procedural room of the hospital department include:
the implementation of medical and diagnostic procedures for medical appointments;
rendering of the first medical aid;
maintenance of the procedural room andavailability of necessary materials, that is, a regular check of the availability of tools, dressings, medicines, canned blood and blood substitutes;
adherence to the rules of infection control (compliance with the standards for disinfection and sterilization, aseptic and antiseptic);
collection of blood from the vein for biochemical examination and sending it to the laboratory;
ensuring strict accounting and storage of drugs of groups A and B;
timely filling of medical records on special accounting forms;
adherence to norms and rules of medical ethics (storage of medical secrets, observance of subordination relations, intelligible and patient explanation to patients of doctor's appointments);
following the rules of internal labor regulations;
periodic training;
preparing an office for receiving patients;
disinfection of cabinet surfaces for procedures;
quartzing and airing the cabinet according to the schedule approved by the administration of the medical institution.
It should be borne in mind that the structure of the job description must necessarily include, along with the section “Functional Responsibilities of a Nurse,” also her rights. This category includes:
- justified presentation of requirements to the administration on the issue of creating working conditions, which allow to perform the functional duties of a nurse in a quality and timely manner;
- control over the work of nurses;
- making proposals to the management of the department for improving the functioning of health facilities (within the competence of the nurse);
- taking part in conferences and meetings of nursing staff;
- appeal against the actions of the department management to the head physician of a medical institution.
In addition to the rights and duties, the job description of a nurse also provides for a certain responsibility of the average medical worker, who he carries at his workplace, for:
- safety in the implementation of medical procedures, compliance with the standards of antisepsis, asepsis;
- safety of medicines and equipment of the office;
- timeliness and correctness of filling the documentation of the treatment room.
Therefore, knowledge of the structure and corepoints of their duties as a new nurse in the treatment room will, on the one hand, prevent violations of her rights, and on the other, define the area of responsibility in the workplace.
