Job Description
Construction Site Nurse:
Perform necessary duties of a medical personnel; provide first aid when needed, necessary basic check ups; ensure first aid facilities, sick bays and ambulance access are available at any times at the accommodation.
Responsibilities:
- Assess sick or injured labor health problems and needs, develop and implement nursing care plans, and maintain medical records.
- Administer nursing care to ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled labor.
- May advise patients on health maintenance and disease prevention or provide case management.
- Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records.
- Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in sick/injured labor’s conditions.
- Provide health care, first aid, immunizations, or assistance in convalescence or rehabilitation in locations such as camp and work area.
- Consult and coordinate with healthcare team members under supervisor’s approval to assess, plan, implement, or evaluate patient care plans.
- Monitor all aspects of patient care, including diet, hydration and physical activity.
- Instruct labour or other groups on topics such as health education, disease prevention, and develop health improvement programs.
- Asses patient treatment plans as indicated by patients' responses and conditions if necessary
- Conduct specified laboratory tests if needed.
- Assess the needs of individual labor, including assessment of individuals' home or project site work environments, to identify potential health or safety problems.
- Coordinate with local health authorities in relation to maintaining health standards on the site.
- Prepare patients for and assist with examinations or treatments.
- Order, interpret, and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient's condition.
- Direct or coordinate infection control / programs, advising or consulting with specified personnel about necessary precautions.
- Prepare rooms, sterile instruments, equipment, or supplies and ensure that stock of supplies is maintained.
- Perform physical examinations, make tentative diagnoses, and treat patients en route to hospitals or at disaster site triage centers.
- Consult with institutions or associations regarding issues or concerns relevant to the practice and profession of nursing.
- Engage in research activities related to nursing.
