وصف الوظيفة
Role Overview
Registered Nurse - ER at NMC Royal Hospital. The post holder will work in the Emergency Department, supporting the NMC Nursing Mission, Vision, and Values while providing safe, compassionate, and individualized care to every patient, every time.
Company Overview
NMC Healthcare is committed to providing clinical excellence through safe, compassionate, and individualized care. The organization operates on core nursing values of Safety, Excellence, Ethics, Trust, and Collaboration.
Role Purpose
To provide and coordinate emergency patient care, assess and monitor patient needs, implement treatment plans, and work collaboratively with an interprofessional team to deliver safe and outstanding care in the Emergency Department setting.
Key Responsibilities
Patient Assessment & Monitoring
- 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.
- Assess and identify patients' needs and implement and monitor the patient's medical plan and treatment.
Care Planning & Coordination
- 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.
- Facilitate the process of safe patient admission, transfer and discharge.
Clinical Interventions
- 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.
- Prepare patients for medical examination 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, Neonatal Resuscitation.
Patient Education & Support
- Provide and coordinate patient care, educate patients and the public about various health conditions, and provide advice and emotional support to patients and their family members.
- Employ strategies to promote patients' health and a safe environment.
- Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory examinations.
Professional Practice
- Work with a team of physicians and other health care specialists or allied health in various settings.
- Maintain and update technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice.
- Work collaboratively with other team members and uphold and live the NMC Nursing Strategy.
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).
- Demonstrate evidenced ability to work as part of an inter-professional team.
- Possess organizational and administrative skills with which to use the electronic medical record platform for clinical documentation.
- Communicate effectively in Arabic (desirable).
Additional Information
- Manage own professional re-licensure.
- Be willing to work across departments when necessary.