Job Description
To attend any new patient (admission) immediately.
To take a proper history of the patient (If he is in a position to give it on his own) or from his relative.
Examine the patient.
Check any previous records, if available.
Charts down all the details in the history sheet.
Let the point or his relative go through all the details and take his signature on the history sheet.
Inform the respective consultant about the admission follow his orders.
Instruct the nursing staff about the necessary orders to be carried out.
If theres a transfer in-patient from the ICU. Read the transfer summary carefully. See the point and examine him thoroughly.
Inform the respective consultants and carry out their orders. Inform the nursing staff if any changes.
To take rounds and examine individual patients. Inform the respective consultant/ Registrars if any new findings.
To enter the details of each and every patient in the ward module.
Attend rounds with the respective consultants and carry out the necessary changes in the order. Enter them in the treatment sheet. Inform the nursing staff on duty about the same.
To follow up with all the investigations to be seen and trace their results. Inform the Registrar/ consultant. Note down investigation results in the investigation sheet.
To enter the treatment sheets for the following day. Cross check the same for the dosages of the medications. Confirm the investigations to be sending on the following day (As a cost of each and every investigation is very high). To take special precautions for any special investigations.
To enter pre-operative orders in the treatment sheet. To check whether the consent for the surgery has been taken from the patient. If not inform the respective person. To inform the Anesthetists on duty and instruct him / her about the patient. To carry out all the pre-operative orders.
To attend patients complaints. To calm the patients if they are apprehensive. Inform the consultant if needed.
To go for the health checkup.
They have to wear white apron and identity card on duty .
They have to supervise the work done by clinical assistants countersign
After checking any document prepared by clinical assistants.
