Registered Nurse - Maternity

Role Overview

Registered Nurse - Maternity at NMC Healthcare. The post holder will work collaboratively with other team members to provide safe and outstanding care to patients, their families, and bystanders at all times.

Company Overview

NMC Healthcare is committed to providing clinical excellence through safe, compassionate, and individualized care to every patient, every time. The organization's nursing vision is exemplified through core values of Safety, Excellence, Ethics, Trust, and Collaboration. All NMC nurses seek to do the right thing, be the patient's advocate, be open and transparent, deliver safe and compassionate care, recognize the uniqueness of each patient, contribute to an outstanding patient experience, engage with a learning culture, and lead and influence changes in healthcare.

Role Purpose

To provide safe, compassionate, and excellent maternity nursing care to expectant mothers, newborns, and their families by assessing patient needs, implementing and monitoring treatment plans, educating patients and families, and collaborating with an interprofessional healthcare team to ensure coordinated and comprehensive care throughout the antenatal, intrapartum, postnatal, and newborn periods.

Key Responsibilities

Patient Assessment and Care Planning

• Perform systematic patient assessment, reassessment, 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 family.
• Monitor and assess the health status of both the mother and baby, including vital signs, fetal heart rate, contractions, and postpartum recovery.
• Assess and identify patients' needs and implement and monitor the patient's medical plan and treatment.

Clinical Monitoring and Escalation

• Record vital signs, recognize, address, and escalate all abnormalities.
• Performs CTG monitoring and interprets findings of fetal heart rates and recognises when to escalate to the obstetrician, reflective of the scope of practice, competence, and clinical privileging.
• Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory examinations.
• Perform and start phototherapy as per physician order and understand the bilirubin results range values and act and escalate accordingly.

Medications and Treatments

• 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.
• Administer medications, intravenous fluids, and other treatments as prescribed by healthcare providers, including newborn vaccination.
• Provide wound care management.
• Assist in medical procedures, invasive or non-invasive, as needed.

Maternity-Specific Care

• Prepare patients for medical examination and treatment.
• Facilitate the process of safe patient admission, transfer, and discharge.
• Perform newborn screening as per Department of Health recommendations.
• Perform newborn bath as required.
• Support, promote, and protect the ten steps within the WHO Mother Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative recommendations during the antenatal, intrapartum, postnatal, and newborn periods.
• 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.

Education and Support

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

Life Support and Emergency Response

• 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.

Interprofessional Collaboration

• 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 and Environment

• Maintain and update technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice.
• Employ strategies to promote patients' health and a safe environment.
• Uphold and live the NMC Nursing Strategy.

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.
• Hold a valid American Heart Association Basic Life Support Provider card.

Skills & Competencies

• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English (spoken and written).
• Demonstrated 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 (desirable).

Additional Information

• Must manage their own professional re-licensure.
• Must be willing to work across departments when necessary.