The Responsibilities of the Nursing Supervisor include the following:

• Handing and taking over all reports pertaining to new admissions, cases in critical therapy areas, special investigations, surgery, death and any other untoward incidents, during the previous shifts.

• Check and maintain punctuality in wards/departments/sections specifically at the beginning of each shift.

• Check staff deployment, floor wise and section/ward wise and ensure smooth functioning.

• Check on duty assignments and daily nursing care plans and schedules.

• Visit all new admissions, check on patients being or likely to be discharged, review work up and status of all pre and post operative patients, visit and interact with all VIP’s, critically ill patients and attend to complaints, if any.

• Make thorough daily rounds of the assigned area of responsibility.

• Attend to all emergencies and untoward incidents in the section/wards/floors assigned and make a detailed report to superiors.

• Assist in organizing essential materials, nursing appliances for inventory stock and for daily use.

• Improve professional job knowledge of staff by incident and case teaching at the bedside and at regularly conducted classes.

• Create awareness among staff in crisis management in the wards/department/section/institution – e.g. Code Blue situations, etc.

• Orient new staff members and mould them as per institutional requirement.

• Prepare daily and consistent unbiased report about critically ill patients, VIPs and any untoward incident and submit the report to the Nursing Superintendent/immediate superior.

• Co-ordinate all functional aspects of the department.

• Check weekly duty rosters, weekly offs and leave sanction and staff availability.

• Direct and supervise service activities of nursing care, plan and instruct patient care activities.

• Responsible for section/department/ward assigned over 24 hours and for the evening and night shifts in particular.

• Supervise and evaluate on job performance in terms of patient care relationships and efficiency of service of all staff assigned to ward/department/section.

• Maintain safety at workplace for staff and patients.

• Establish and ensure compliance to inventory standards for medicines, solutions, consumable supplies, all other miscellaneous material and equipment.

• Ensure that all staff have adequate knowledge in handling of all sophisticated equipment in the department/ward/section/floor.

• Assist in budget preparation for overall nursing unit.

• Coordinate with other Nursing units / sections to ensure smooth functioning of own unit.

• Check routinely and periodically various essential activities against a checklist and ensure zero defect in patient care infrastructure.

• Interact with patients relatives and attendants to achieve cordial patient – staff relationship

• Coordinate activities of housekeeping, maintenance and security to ensure smooth patient care activities.

• Perform all or any of the duties, which may be assigned by superiors as per exigencies of work.