Registered Nurse - ER

Role Overview

Registered Nurse - ER at NMC Healthcare, providing emergency nursing care in a fast-paced clinical environment.

Company Overview

NMC Healthcare is committed to providing clinical excellence through safe, compassionate, and individualized care to every patient, every time. The organization upholds core values of Safety, Excellence, Ethics, Trust, and Collaboration, and seeks to exemplify clinical excellence through patient advocacy, transparent communication, recognition of patient uniqueness, outstanding patient experience, learning culture engagement, and leadership in healthcare change.

Role Purpose

To provide safe, compassionate, and evidence-based emergency nursing care to patients of all ages in the Emergency Department while collaborating with the interprofessional team, advocating for patients, and maintaining the highest standards of clinical practice and patient safety.

Key Responsibilities

Patient Assessment and Diagnosis

• Perform systematic patient assessment, reassessment, and collection of pertinent data about the patient's health or situation.
• Understand and analyze assessment information and data.
• Determine actual and potential nursing diagnoses, problems, and issues.
• Triage patients of all ages, including pediatric, adult, and pregnant patients, collecting current symptoms and detailed medical history to determine appropriate triage level and ensure timely and accurate care based on patient condition.
• Perform trauma assessment and recognize abnormalities in patient status.

Care Planning and Coordination

• Define 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 family members.
• Collaborate with emergency physicians, trauma surgeons, and other healthcare professionals to develop and implement comprehensive care plans, coordinate diagnostic tests and imaging studies, and facilitate timely patient disposition and admission to appropriate hospital units or specialty services.
• Manage and coordinate patient care, educating patients and the public about various health conditions.
• Facilitate the process of safe patient admission, transfer, and discharge.

Clinical Skills and Interventions

• Record vital signs, recognize, address, and escalate all abnormalities.
• Assess and identify patients' needs and implement and monitor the patient's medical plan and treatment.
• 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, and Neonatal Resuscitation.
• Administer emergency medications and perform Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) interventions, including defibrillation, cardioversion, and medication administration, to stabilize patients with life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias or acute myocardial infarctions.
• Assist with emergency procedures such as endotracheal intubation, insertion of central venous and arterial catheters, intercostal drain placement, and intraosseous needle insertion.
• Prepare patients for medical examination and treatment.
• 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.

Equipment and Environment

• Operate and monitor emergency medical equipment to support patient care and ensure accurate diagnostic and therapeutic interventions.
• Employ strategies to promote patients' health and a safe environment.
• Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory examinations.

Emergency Preparedness and Competency

• Participate in disaster preparedness drills, trauma resuscitations, and Code Blue activations.
• Follow established emergency protocols and procedures.
• Maintain competency in emergency nursing skills, including trauma assessment, airway management, and hemorrhage control, to optimize patient outcomes in critical situations.
• Maintain and update technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice.

Professional Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with other team members and uphold the NMC Nursing Strategy.
• Provide advice and emotional support to patients and their family members.
• Be the patient's advocate.
• Work with a team of physicians and other healthcare specialists and allied health professionals in various settings.
• Be willing to work across departments when necessary.

Qualifications & Experience

• Appropriate license to work as a registered nurse in the relevant regulatory health authority with all qualifications and experience mandated by that authority.
• Valid American Heart Association Basic Life Support Provider card.
• Demonstrated ability to work as part of an interprofessional team.

Skills & Competencies

• Clear and effective communication in English, both spoken and written.
• Communication in Arabic (desirable).
• Organizational and administrative skills with competency using the electronic medical record platform for clinical documentation.
• Emergency nursing expertise including triage, trauma assessment, airway management, and hemorrhage control.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support competency and defibrillation skills.
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support competency.
• Neonatal Resuscitation competency.

Additional Information

• Must manage own professional re-licensure.
• Must be willing to work across departments when necessary.