Clinical Nurse- Pediatric Emergency Department

Role Overview

Clinical Nurse in the Pediatric Emergency Department at Sidra Medicine, located in Qatar.

Company Overview

Sidra Medicine is a high-tech facility providing world-class patient care, scientific expertise, and educational resources. The organization delivers comprehensive specialist healthcare services for children and young people, and exceptional maternity, gynecology, and reproductive medical services for women.

Role Purpose

Provide safe and effective direct care to pediatric patients across neonatal, infant, toddler, pre-school, school age, adolescent, and young adult populations in an urgent care, emergency, and trauma setting. Assess care needs, plan, implement, and evaluate programs of care for patients and families aligned to Sidra Standards of Practice.

Key Responsibilities

Professionalism and Ethical Practice

• Practice within the Dental Health Professions Scope of Practice according to licensure within the State of Qatar.
• Provide total individualized patient care and assume responsibility and accountability for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care and discharge planning for each patient.
• Ensure timely documentation of care, discharge planning, and family education aligned to Sidra standards of documentation.
• Demonstrate critical thinking skills by problem solving appropriately during patient care.
• Independently initiate escalation of issues following the chain of command, utilizing resources as needed.
• Independently maintain licensure and regulatory requirements including life support certifications and continuing professional development requirements.
• Meet requirements of organizational, profession, and departmental or role-specific orientation competencies.
• Model appearance and behaviors that promote a positive image of nursing.
• Adhere to time and attendance requirements.
• Participate in new staff and student orientation, assist in maintaining a suitable learning environment, and act as a preceptor or mentor in the supervision and teaching of new staff and students to develop their competence.
• Actively participate in and contribute to the Shared Leadership structure to promote and embed Shared Leadership.
• Assume responsibility for own professional development through lifelong learning to ensure continued competence and performance improvement.

Patient and Family Centered Care

• Provide holistic, patient and family-centered care based on evidence and best practice.
• Anticipate and respond to patient and family care requirements.
• Evaluate learning needs of patient or family and provide patient and family education.
• Maintain confidentiality at all times.

Teamwork and Collaboration

• Treat colleagues, patients, and visitors with dignity and respect at all times.
• Promote and maintain effective communication and teamwork.
• Demonstrate collaborative and respectful behavior.
• Contribute to a positive work environment.

Evidence Based Practice

• Adhere to Sidra's Nursing and Midwifery Standards of Practice.
• Ensure care is based on best evidence.
• Incorporate credible critically appraised evidence into nursing practice and when initiating change.

Quality Improvement

• Identify ways to improve services through quality improvement initiatives.
• Participate in quality improvement initiatives and measure outcomes.
• Contribute effective use of resources and identify opportunities for efficiency.

Safety

• Acknowledge own limitations in knowledge, judgment, or skills, and function within those limitations.
• Seek resolution in knowledge and competency gaps to ensure patient safety is maintained at all times.
• Demonstrate consistent and reliable use of technology and standardized practices that support safety and quality.
• Communicate observations or concerns related to hazards and errors to patients, families, and the healthcare team.
• Use organizational error reporting systems for near miss and event reporting.
• Demonstrate effective use of strategies to reduce risk of harm to self or others.
• Assume responsibility and accountability for own clinical decisions, delegation, and provide supervision to team members according to their competence and scope of practice.

Informatics

• Document care, interventions, and outcomes accurately, concisely, and appropriately in a timely manner.
• Practice contemporaneous documentation, ensuring entries into the medical record are recorded and signed in real time.
• Utilize data from the patient record to make decisions and respond appropriately to clinical decision-making supports and alerts.
• Protect confidentiality of protected health information in electronic health records.
• Follow all hospital-related policies and procedures.
• Adhere to Sidra's standards as they appear in the Code of Conduct and Conflict of Interest policies.
• Adhere to and promote Sidra's Values.

Qualifications & Experience

Education

• Bachelor Degree in Nursing (4 years)
• Post graduate certificate in specialty if applicable in country of origin (preferred)

Experience

• 2 or more years of recent clinical nursing experience within the relevant specialty from a highly esteemed healthcare institution

Certification and Licensure

• Valid professional nursing license in country of origin
• Meets licensing requirements of the State of Qatar

Skills & Competencies

Clinical Competencies

Competencies to be assessed as outlined in the Pediatric Emergency Department unit orientation and competency booklets, including but not limited to:

• Growth and development, birth to adult
• Head-to-toe assessment and recognition of the unwell child
• Intravenous fluid management
• Phlebotomy
• Capillary blood sampling
• Specimen collection
• Care planning
• Emergency medication preparation and administration
• Nutritional requirements and enteral feeding
• Pain assessment and management
• Risk screening and management
• Skin integrity
• Wound assessment and management
• Cardiorespiratory monitoring
• Care of the acute trauma patient
• Procedural sedation
• Tissue adhesive wound closure
• Nurse-initiated medication administration
• Triage using the Emergency Severity Index system
• Splinting
• Staple removal
• Suture removal
• Accessing central line
• Incubator, radiant warmer, and infant resuscitation system use
• Phototherapy care and management
• Hemodynamic monitoring (invasive and non-invasive)
• Airway management and oxygen delivery system
• Cardiac Electrical Management including defibrillation, pacing, cardioversion, and automated external defibrillator

Essential Skills and Abilities

• Effective communication skills
• Excellent team player
• Motivated and enthusiastic
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite
• Fluency in written and spoken English

Additional Information

• The incumbent may be required to undertake specific assigned tasks relevant to their area of work.
• The incumbent is additionally required to demonstrate competencies specific to the post as outlined in the Job Description Addendum.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.