Laila Sadd

Administrative responsibilities – admitting and discharging patients; updating patient information both online and in paper records, ensuring all data and information is correct and up to date.

Communicative responsibilities – speaking with patients’ and relatives regarding care; multidisciplinary meetings to discuss care; communicating with surgeons and anaesthetists regarding their patients’ development; sending safety alerts to patient GPs e.g. urinary retention, blood results requiring follow up.

Leadership responsibilities – Nurse in Charge when necessary (managing staff, delegating roles); liaising with management team (updating them on ward statuses, staffing and high risk patients); fire trained; Infection Prevention and Control ward link (educating colleagues with recent IPC updates, compiling information to put up in office areas); maintaining strong professional relationships with colleagues from all departments.

Patient care responsibilities – administering medications when due and as required; personal care; promoting independence; female catheterisation; stoma care; IV medication administration (including PICC lines and PCAs); blood transfusions; dressing changes and wound care (taking and sending swabs if required); performing ECGs; chaperoning for consultants; recognising signs of deteriorating patients and managing these within my scope of practice, knowing when it is necessary to escalate to a more appropriate person; ILS trained.