Registered Nurse - LTC

Role Overview

Registered Nurse - LTC at NMC Healthcare, providing comprehensive patient care in long-term care settings.

Role Purpose

Provide and coordinate comprehensive patient care in long-term care settings, assess and monitor patient medical plans in collaboration with physicians and allied health professionals, educate patients and families about health conditions, and deliver emotional support across various care environments.

Key Responsibilities

Patient Assessment and Care Planning

• Assess and identify patients' needs and implement and monitor the patient's medical plan and treatment in collaboration with physicians and other healthcare specialists or allied health professionals in various settings.
• Perform systematic patient assessment, re-assessment, and collect pertinent data about the patient's health or situation.
• Understand and analyze 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.

Clinical Monitoring and Vital Signs

• Record vital signs, recognize, address, and escalate all abnormalities.
• 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.
• Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory examinations.
• Ensure competence in pain management.

Direct Patient Care

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

Professional Practice

• Maintain and update technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice.
• Perform essential life support as per regulatory requirements and scope, such as but not limited to Basic Life Support.
• Employ strategies to promote patients' health and a safe environment.

Admission, Transfer, and Discharge

• Facilitate the process of safe patient admission, transfer, and discharge.

Operational Continuity and Quality

• Support the execution of business continuity plans by maintaining essential nursing services during emergencies, follow established protocols to ensure patient safety, and collaborate with the healthcare team to sustain operational effectiveness.
• Actively participate in performance improvement and continuous quality improvement.

Qualifications & Experience

Essential

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing from an accredited institution in home country.
• Minimum of 2 years of clinical experience, including recent assignment in ICU, Critical Care, long-term care unit, or equivalent experience within Homecare settings in the same cluster.
• Appropriate license to work as a registered nurse in the relevant regulatory health authority with all qualifications and experience mandated by that authority.
• Ability to manage own professional re-licensure.
• Valid American Heart Association Basic Life Support Provider card.

Desirable

• 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.
• Ability to communicate effectively in Arabic.

Skills & Competencies

• Communicate clearly and effectively in English (spoken and written).
• Work across departments when necessary.