Registered Nurse

Role Overview

Registered Nurse at NMC Healthcare. The post holder will work within the scope of practice, putting the health, wellbeing and safety of their patient first as they assess, plan, implement and evaluate their needs.

Role Purpose

Provide and coordinate patient care, educate patients and the public about various health conditions, and deliver advice and emotional support to patients and their family members. Work with physicians and other health care specialists or allied health in various settings.

Key Responsibilities

Patient Assessment & Diagnosis

• Perform systematic patient assessment, re-assessment and collect pertinent data about the patient's health or situation.
• Understand and analyse the assessment information and data.
• Determine actual and potential nursing diagnoses, problems, and issues.
• Record vital signs, recognize, address and escalate all abnormalities.

Care Planning & Implementation

• Define the predicted and expected outcomes of the patient's planned care.
• Create and evaluate patient care plans with the interprofessional team, in collaboration with the patient and patient's bystanders.
• Prepare patients for medical examination and treatment.
• Employ strategies to promote patients' health and a safe environment.

Clinical Procedures & Interventions

• Perform essential life support as per regulatory requirements and scope such as but not limited to Basic Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Neonatal Resuscitation etc.
• Administer medications and monitor patients for any side effects and reactions.
• Administer treatments such as IV fluids or blood products and monitor patients for any reactions.
• Provide wound care management.
• Assist in medical procedures invasive or non-invasive as needed.

Patient Safety & Transitions

• Facilitate the process of safe patient admission, transfer and discharge.
• Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory examinations.

Professional Development

• Maintain and update technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice.

Qualifications & Experience

• Hold an appropriate license to work as a registered nurse in the relevant regulatory health authority with all the qualifications and experience these mandates.
• Hold a valid American Heart Association Basic Life Support Provider card.

Skills & Competencies

• Communicate clearly and effectively in English (spoken and written).
• Manage own professional re-licensure.
• Work across departments when necessary.
• Evidence of ability to work as part of an inter-professional team (desirable).
• Organizational and administrative skills with which to use the electronic medical record platform for clinical documentation (desirable).
• Communicate effectively in Arabic (desirable).