Registered Nurse -LDR

Role Overview

Registered Nurse – Labour and Delivery (LDR) at NMC Healthcare. The position is based within the Labour, Delivery and Recovery unit, supporting the organization's commitment to providing clinical excellence through safe, compassionate, and individualized care.

Company Overview

NMC Healthcare is committed to a Nursing Vision centered on clinical excellence, safe and compassionate care, patient advocacy, transparency, and recognition of patient uniqueness. The organization upholds core values of Safety, Excellence, Ethics, Trust, and Collaboration, with a focus on creating outstanding patient experiences and fostering a learning culture within healthcare teams.

Role Purpose

To provide comprehensive, safe, and compassionate nursing care to pregnant women and their families across all stages of pregnancy, labour, delivery, and postpartum recovery. The post holder will collaborate with multidisciplinary healthcare teams to ensure coordinated, individualized care that supports both maternal and neonatal health outcomes while upholding the NMC Nursing Strategy.

Key Responsibilities

Patient Assessment and Planning

• Perform systematic patient assessment, reassessment, and collection of pertinent data about the patient's health or situation.
• Understand and analyse assessment information and data.
• Determine actual and potential nursing diagnoses, problems, and issues.
• Define predicted and expected outcomes of the patient's planned care.
• Record vital signs, recognize, address, and escalate all abnormalities.
• Monitor and assess the health status of both mother and baby, including vital signs, fetal heart rate, contractions, and postpartum recovery.

Patient Care and Education

• Provide responsible coordination of patient care, educating patients and the public about various health conditions.
• Provide advice and emotional support to patients and their family members.
• Prepare patients for medical examination and treatment.
• Assess and identify patients' needs and implement and monitor the patient's medical plan and treatment.
• Educate and support expectant mothers and their families on various topics related to prenatal care, childbirth, breastfeeding, and newborn care.
• Provide emotional support and counselling to expectant mothers and their families, addressing their concerns and answering any questions they may have.
• Provides parents with bereavement support, advice and compassion during end-of-life care in relation to congenital birth defects, loss of pregnancy, miscarriage, stillbirth and neonatal death.

Labour and Delivery Management

• Provide comprehensive nursing care to pregnant women during all stages of their pregnancy, including prenatal, labour, delivery, and postpartum care.
• Assist with the management of labour, including monitoring progress, administering medication, providing pain relief, and assisting with the delivery process.
• Monitor the progress of labouring mothers, perform CTG monitoring, and interpret findings of fetal heart rates with recognition of when to escalate to the obstetrician, reflective of scope of practice, competence, and clinical privileging.
• Perform immediate post-delivery care of the newborn(s) to include (but not limited to) taking of cord blood gases, performing the initial steps of newborn care, newborn identification, physical assessment and monitoring of vital signs, with immediate recognition and escalation to the neonatologist as needed, in accordance with scope of practice.

Clinical Treatments and Procedures

• Administer medications and monitor patients for any side effects and reactions.
• Administer treatments such as intravenous fluids or blood products and monitor patients for any reactions.
• Administer medications, intravenous fluids, and other treatments as prescribed by healthcare providers.
• Provide wound care management.
• Assist in medical procedures, invasive or non-invasive, as needed.
• Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory examinations.
• Assist with the preparation and maintenance of sterile delivery rooms and equipment.

Patient Safety and Life Support

• Employ strategies to promote patients' health and a safe environment.
• 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.
• Maintain essential life support as per regulatory requirements and scope of practice such as but not limited to Basic Life Support, PROMPT, CTG, and Neonatal Resuscitation.
• Respond to emergencies and provide immediate care as needed, including performing CPR and other life-saving measures.

Care Coordination and Transitions

• Facilitate the process of safe patient admission, transfer, and discharge.
• Create and evaluate patient care plans with the interprofessional team, in collaboration with the patient and patient's family members.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary healthcare team, including physicians, midwives, and other healthcare professionals, to ensure coordinated and comprehensive care for patients.
• Work with a team of physicians and other health care specialists or allied health in various settings.

Professional Development

• Maintain and update technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice.
• Support, promote, and protect the ten steps within the WHO Mother Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative recommendations during the antenatal, intrapartum, postnatal, and newborn periods.

Qualifications & Experience

• Hold an appropriate license to work as a registered nurse in the relevant regulatory health authority with all qualifications and experience mandated by that authority.
• Manage own professional re-licensure.
• Hold a valid American Heart Association Basic Life Support Provider card.

Skills & Competencies

• Clear and effective communication in English (spoken and written).
• Ability to communicate effectively in Arabic (desirable).
• Evidenced ability to work as part of an inter-professional team (desirable).
• Organizational and administrative skills with competence in using electronic medical record platform for clinical documentation (desirable).

Additional Information

• The post holder must be willing to work across departments when necessary.
• 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 and their families at all times, every time.