About This Role
This night-shift post on the cardiac ward pairs patient care with mentoring new nurses.
Responsibilities
- Assess patients' physical and psychological condition throughout the BMT process
- Monitor vital signs, intake/output, laboratory results, and clinical status
- Identify and promptly report signs of infection, bleeding, graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), or transplant-related complications
- Provide symptom management for pain, nausea, mucositis, fatigue, and other side effects
- Maintain strict protective isolation and aseptic techniques
- Administer chemotherapy, immunosuppressive agents, blood products, IV fluids, and supportive medications as prescribed
- Care for central venous catheters (Hickman, PICC, Port) following sterile protocols
- Assist during stem cell infusion and monitor patients for infusion reactions
- Monitor for adverse drug reactions and transfusion reactions
- Provide nutritional support guidance in collaboration with dietitians
- Educate patients and visitors on hygiene, isolation, and safety measures
- Ensure safe handling and disposal of cytotoxic medications and waste
- Accurately document nursing assessments, interventions, and patient responses
- Communicate patient condition effectively to physicians and multidisciplinary team members
- Provide clear handover during shift changes and patient transfers
- Educate patients and families on the BMT process, medications, infection prevention, and home care
- Provide emotional support and counseling to patients and families throughout treatment
- Follow hospital policies, BMT protocols, and ethical standards of nursing practice
- Participate in unit-based training, audits, and quality improvement activities
- Maintain professional competency and required certifications
- Monitor for early and late transplant-related complications
- Implement neutropenic precautions and strict aseptic techniques
- Provide ongoing symptom management (pain, mucositis, nausea, diarrhea, fatigue)
- Support engraftment monitoring and recovery phase care
- Enforce strict infection control measures including hand hygiene and isolation protocols
- Educate patients, families, and visitors on infection prevention and protective isolation
- Monitor environmental cleanliness and air-quality requirements (HEPA filtration where applicable)
- Ensure patient safety measures including fall prevention and medication safety
- Recognize and respond to medical emergencies including sepsis, bleeding, respiratory distress, and cardiac arrest
