Consultant Obstetric And Gynecology

Responsibilities

• Ensures through his/her actions, either directly or indirectly, that a superior quality of medical treatment, compassion and understanding is given to every patient served at the National Hospital.
• Provides patient care within the parameters of their professional competence as reflected in the scope of their clinical privileges for both in-patients and out-patients.
• Practices within the framework of clinically relevant and scientifically valid standards, guidelines and criteria.
• Conducts daily ward rounds on his own and/or as a team to formulate a multi-disciplinary treatment plan.
• Performs diagnostic and therapeutic procedures on his/her patients within the range of the specialty.
• Assessment and referral of appropriate patients under his/her medical care to other appropriate medical facilities as well as accepting referrals of patients with medical problems in his/her field of specialty.
• Participate in the on-call rota of the department for patient care and admission.
• Responds to emergencies to offer advice and actively participate with problems if required, related to his/her specialty.
• Observes and upholds the patient’s rights of security, confidentiality and privacy.
• Maintains appropriate records of all patients with accurate, timely legible completion of patient’s medical records.
• Consultant has a leadership role in the organization performance.
• Supervision of duties of assigned junior staff.
• Provides leadership for performance‑improvement functions in the process of measurement, assessment and improvement of both clinical and non‑clinical processes as part of the Departmental Quality Plan.
• Active participation in Continued Medical Education (CME) through educational hospital activities (morning report meetings, grand rounds, clinical tutorials and seminars, journal club, radiology or clinico‑pathological conferences). Also, through National and International meetings, conferences and symposia.
• Active participation in training program related to his field and organization within the hospital for training of junior medical staff and in‑service training for nursing staff and technicians.
• Continuous update of his knowledge in the medical field as well as continuously upgrading level of skill in his/her field of profession.
• Participation in committee meetings assigned to him/her (Quality Improvement, Infection Control, etc).
• Abides by Department Policies and Procedures, as well as hospital by laws, Rules and Regulations.
• Responsible to educate patients /families as per their needs and to implement their whole role regarding patient / family education process as mentioned in patient & family education policy and procedure including documentation in patient medical record.
• They are knowledgeable about their essential role in patient and family education.
• Involves the patient/families in plan of care and respects patients/families regarding their goals and choices of patient care.
• Provides health promotion and health teaching thru methods appropriate to a patient’s developmental level, learning needs, readiness and ability to learn, language preference, culture and situations.
• Allots time necessary to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient education provided to patients/families with appropriate documentation.
• To carry out any other assignments as directed by Hospital Administration and/or the department head and within the realm of his knowledge, skills and abilities.
• To keep abreast with latest research, development & techniques in the field of pediatrics.
• Process Orientation/ Documentation.
• To conduct and supervise all tests / procedures related to pediatrics.
• To generate reports on test / procedures performed (Operation notes and discharge summary).
• To ensure proper attention to the patient & their attendants.
• To ensure that the wards / O.T. rooms have equipment / facilities necessary for rendering patient care as per availability.
• To supervise all nursing / Para medical and non‑medical staff of the department to maintain discipline and high standard of medical care at the departments.
• To provision infrastructure and maintenance support.
• To ensure optimum utilizations of resources by the him / her and subordinates.
• To have complete orientation of QMS and EMS system of Hospital.
• To have complete Awareness about Disaster Management Programme (DMP) of the hospital.
• To Comply with the service quality Process, environmental & occupational issues & policies of the respective area.
• To Comply with patient safety policy People Orientation.
• To co‑ordinate and contribute with the team for development of newer facilities.
• To proactive in terms of patient care (Planning and anticipation).
• To complaint redresses of patients.
• To take part in all regular CME’s policies and practices.