Registered Nurse - LTCU

Role Overview

Registered Nurse - LTCU at NMC Royal Hospital.

Company Overview

NMC Healthcare is committed to providing clinical excellence through safe, compassionate, and individualized care to every patient, every time. The organization upholds core values of Safety, Excellence, Ethics, Trust, and Collaboration.

Role Purpose

To provide and coordinate safe, compassionate, patient-centered care in the Long-Term Care Unit while upholding the NMC Nursing Mission, Vision, and Values. The post holder will work collaboratively with the interprofessional team to deliver outstanding care to patients and their families at all times, every time.

Key Responsibilities

Patient Assessment and 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 and identify patients' needs and implement and monitor the patient's medical plan and treatment.

Clinical Care Delivery

• Be responsible for providing and coordinating patient care, educating patients and the public about various health conditions, and providing advice and emotional support to patients and their family members.
• 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.
• Provide wound care management.
• Prepare patients for medical examination and treatment.
• Assist in medical procedures invasive or non-invasive as needed.
• Facilitate the process of safe patient's admission, transfer and discharge.

Emergency Response and Life Support

• 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.
• Manage a deteriorating patient without delay, using the Early Warning System escalation process and American Heart Association emergency algorithms.

Patient Education and Involvement

• Involve patients in their own healthcare and recovery through education, awareness and positive reinforcement.
• Employ strategies to promote patients' health and a safe environment.
• Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory examinations.

Professional Development and Teaching

• Ensure relevant training and competency is undertaken to deliver care safely.
• Maintain up-to-date mandatory training requirements.
• Follow and comply with the NMC Nurse Competency Matrix / Framework, relevant to their role profile.
• Be willing to learn new clinical skills and actively contribute to the learning culture through attendance of journal clubs and professional development programs.
• Support and supervise pre-registration and new nurses and other health care workers when required.
• Participate in teaching, mentorship and preceptorship when required.
• Participate in clinical supervision of student nurses, newly graduated nurses, newly hired experienced nurses, return to practice nurses and nurses undergoing cross-training or upskilling.
• Participate in Performance Improvement Plans when required.
• Share knowledge and skill with others, to improve patient care and services.
• Ensure they are skilled, trained and competent before using any medical device.
• Maintain and update technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice.
• Assist, engage with and contribute to the professional development of colleagues.

Quality Assurance and Governance

• Always speak up if safety is a concern.
• Speak up if something is not right.
• Maintain awareness of and comply with NMC Policies and Procedures.
• Participate in all activities related to DOH/DHA/MOH/MOHAP and NMC Quality Improvement when required.
• Uphold the regulatory and accreditation standards.
• Continually seek to improve the service of and care delivery for patients and their families.
• Report and notify all untoward, serious and near miss incidents to your direct line manager and then through the incident reporting system in a timely manner.
• Cooperate with all investigations and audits when requested to do so in the interest of developing a learning culture and seeking to improve care and services.
• Promote customer service based on NMC patient satisfaction results.
• Share best practices and quality patient outcomes through audit.
• Be aware of the impact of nursing care on patient outcomes measured through Nursing Sensitive Key Performance Indicators and external benchmarks.
• Contribute to a positive practice environment, upholding the six standards of ANCC Pathway to Excellence®.

Professional Conduct and Competence

• Always uphold the reputation of the nursing profession.
• Act as a positive role model for all nursing and support staff.
• Have insight of own behaviour and in others.
• Be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care under the indirect supervision of senior nursing staff.
• Comply with all aspects of the UAE Code of Conduct, Scope of Practice and licensure as per the regulator.
• Treat all patients with kindness, respect and compassion.
• Recognize and work within the limits of their own competence.
• Take responsibility for their own actions.
• Refuse to undertake any task for which you have not been trained and are not competent to undertake.
• Always seek expert help when the demand of care, service or skill falls outside your capabilities.
• Only delegate tasks to those team members who are trained, skilled and competent to undertake such tasks.
• Assist in updating clinical policies and guidelines in line with skill and experience.
• Ensure re-licensure is managed in a timely manner.
• Always maintain patient confidentiality.
• Ensure timely expert advice or senior nursing support is sought when a patient's condition fails to respond to prescribed treatment.
• Communicate effectively with colleagues to ensure patients receive the safest, most effective care possible.

Infection Prevention and Control

• Read and implement the NMC Infection Prevention and Control Policy and Strategy to maintain the highest possible standards of cleanliness at all times, thus reducing the risk of infection in patients, staff and visitors.
• Maintain the strictest hand hygiene compliance encompassing 5 moments of hand hygiene, bare below the elbows and environmental care at all times.

Equality and Diversity

• Promote diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in service delivery and employment practices.
• Comply with NMC equality and diversity policies, procedures and initiatives.

Safeguarding

• Commit to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and vulnerable adults.
• Comply with Federal Law No. 3 of 2016 (Wadeema's Law).

Occupational Safety and Health Management Systems

• Comply with OSHMS instructions, policies and safe working procedures.
• Use appropriate personal protective equipment and safety systems.
• Be familiar with emergency and evacuation procedures.
• Not wilfully or recklessly endanger anyone's health and safety.
• Assist with the preparation of risk assessments.
• Report OSH Hazards, incidents, near misses and issues.
• Reduce, reuse and recycle waste as much as possible.
• Attend all OSH Trainings, awareness programs and mock drills.
• Participate in OSHMS audits and inspections, ensuring standards are maintained.

General

• Work with a team of physicians and other health care specialists or allied health in various settings.
• Perform additional duties when required.

Qualifications & Experience

Essential

• Appropriate license to work as a registered nurse in the relevant regulatory health authority with all the qualifications and experience these mandates.
• Valid American Heart Association Basic Life Support Provider card.
• Ability to manage own professional re-licensure.
• Willingness to work across departments when necessary.
• Clear and effective communication in English, spoken and written.

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.

Additional Information

All responsibilities must be upheld in accordance with the UAE Code of Conduct, Scope of Practice and licensure as per the regulator. National Nursing Practice Standards RN MOHAP and Scope of Practice RN MOHAP apply to this role.