GDA (General Duty Assistant )

Job Description

Reporting on assigned shift on time with adherence to hospital set grooming standards Completion of daily and assigned cleaning tasks as per area allocation Following standard procedures in accomplishing the tasks of patient care Displaying compassion and positive attitude and body language when working with colleagues, patients, relatives and seniors Ensure highest standards of patient (regular and infected), self and staff safety Providing patient uniforms, amenity kits to the patients upon admission and as per request from patients Ensuring cleanliness of clinical / biomedical tools Assisting nursing in sponge bath for patients Assisting patients for bath Assisting nursing team for positioning and mobilizing of patients Bed making in occupied rooms Assisting nursing / clinical teams for procedures / tasks of patient care Handling of regular and infected soiled linen as per hospital set protocols Providing urine pots and urinals to the patients; emptying them and measuring output and informing to nursing team as per their instructions Assisting the nursing staff in preparing the patient for the Surgery and for Various other bedside procedure in the wards Assisting patients in transporting in wheel chair / stretcher and shift them carefully to bed Bringing the weekly indents from the pharmacy and central stores Handling spills, managing HAZMAT spills Dispatching of Lab requisition to Lab, billing cards discharge summaries to typing pool and respective area as per instructions from nursing team Collecting lab investigation reports and radiology reports as per instruction by nurse Changing of bed linen and draw sheet of in-patient bed if required post completion of assisting in biological needs Collecting pharmacy indents and returns of Department In Case of the patient death, assisting in carrying out the last procedures and transporting to mortuary Performing patient related / clinical jobs as assigned by the nursing / clinical staff Knowledge of hand hygiene protocols Donning and un-donning of PPE-Gloves, Mask, N95 Mask, Apron, head gear, shoe covers, safety goggles etc. General Cleaning and disinfection protocols Knowledge of safe and proper usage of chemicals and disinfectants storage, dilution etc. Handling of fresh and soiled linen; handling of infected linen Knowledge of segregation of general & biomedical waste Management of HAZMAT- Spill cleaning Cleaning and disinfecting clinical / biomedical tools; usage of cleaning equipments like bed pan cleaner Packing of dead body Infected / Non-infected Hospital emergency codes Surgical hair Clipping Assisting for elimination needs Routine vs Terminal cleaning OT / SCOPY and other clinical units Dead body packing and transportation Safe patient transportation Proficiency in Hindi, English and local language