Registered Nurse -IP

Role Overview

Registered Nurse - IP at NMC Healthcare. The post holder will work collaboratively with other team members, uphold and live the NMC Nursing Strategy in order to provide safe and outstanding care to patients, their bystanders, and the public, every time.

Company Overview

At NMC Healthcare, we are committed to providing clinical excellence through safe, compassionate, and individualized care to every patient, every time. Our core nursing values are Safety, Excellence, Ethics, Trust, and Collaboration.

Role Purpose

To provide, coordinate, and evaluate patient care across multiple healthcare settings by performing systematic clinical assessments, implementing evidence-based care plans, and delivering safe, compassionate nursing interventions in collaboration with the interprofessional team and patients' families.

Key Responsibilities

Assessment & Care Planning

• 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.
• 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.
• Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate nursing care for preoperative and post operative patients.

Patient Monitoring & Observation

• Record vital signs, recognize, address and escalate all abnormalities.
• Monitor patients' recovery post-surgery including wound care, pain management and mobility.
• Handles and monitors patients with medical devices, Foley catheter, nasogastric tube or having total parenteral nutrition as well as enteral feeding through the tubes.
• Recognize and report post operative complications such as infection, bleeding, and deep vein thrombosis.
• 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.

Clinical Interventions & Procedures

• Prepare patients for medical examination and treatment.
• Provide wound care management.
• Assist in medical procedures invasive or non-invasive as needed.
• 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.

Emergency & Acute Response

• Respond promptly to post-operative emergencies, including but not limited to, haemorrhage, shock, respiratory distress, and clinical deterioration.

Patient & Family Support

• Be the patient's advocate and provide advice and emotional support to patients and their family members.
• Educate patients and the public about various health conditions.
• Facilitate the process of safe patient admission, transfer, and discharge.

Clinical Practice & Development

• Maintain and update technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice.
• Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory examinations.
• Employ strategies to promote patients' health and a safe environment.

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.
• Manage their own professional re-licensure.
• Hold a valid American Heart Association Basic Life Support Provider card.

Skills & Competencies

• Be able to communicate clearly and effectively in English (spoken and written).
• Evidenced ability to work as part of an inter-professional team.
• Organizational and administrative skills with which to use the electronic medical record platform for clinical documentation.
• Be able to communicate effectively in Arabic (desirable).

Additional Information

• Be willing to work across departments when necessary.