Registered Nurse - LTC

Role Overview

Registered Nurse - Long-Term Care at NMC Royal Hospital. This role provides direct patient care in a long-term care setting, working with an interprofessional team of physicians, specialists, and allied health professionals.

Role Purpose

To provide comprehensive, coordinated patient care in long-term care settings through systematic assessment, care planning, treatment delivery, and patient education while maintaining clinical competence and contributing to continuous quality improvement.

Key Responsibilities

Patient Assessment & Care Planning

• 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.
• 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 family members.
• Assess and identify patients' needs and implement and monitor the patient's medical plan and treatment.

Clinical Care Delivery

• Record vital signs, recognize, address, and escalate all abnormalities.
• 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.
• Provide wound care management.
• Prepare patients for medical examination and treatment.
• Assist in medical procedures, invasive or non-invasive, as needed.
• Ensure competence in pain management.

Patient Education & Support

• Provide and coordinate patient care.
• Educate patients and the public about various health conditions.
• Provide advice and emotional support to patients and their family members.

Safety & Emergency Response

• Perform essential life support as per regulatory requirements and scope, including Basic Life Support.
• Employ strategies to promote patients' health and a safe environment.
• Support the execution of business continuity plans by maintaining essential nursing services during emergencies.
• Follow established protocols to ensure patient safety.
• Collaborate with the healthcare team to sustain operational effectiveness during emergencies.

Clinical Knowledge & Professional Development

• Maintain and update technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice.
• Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory examinations.
• Manage own professional re-licensure.

Patient Flow & Operations

• Facilitate the process of safe patient admission, transfer, and discharge.
• Be willing to work across departments when necessary.

Continuous Improvement

• Actively participate in performance improvement and continuous quality improvement initiatives.

Qualifications & Experience

Essential

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing from an accredited institution in home country.
• Minimum 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 with the relevant regulatory health authority, with all qualifications and experience mandated by that authority.
• Valid American Heart Association Basic Life Support Provider card.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English, both spoken and written.

Desirable

• Evidenced ability to work as part of an interprofessional team.
• Organizational and administrative skills with electronic medical record platform for clinical documentation.
• Ability to communicate effectively in Arabic.

Additional Information

• Post holder must manage their own professional re-licensure.