Registered Nurse-NICU/ HDU

Role Overview

Registered Nurse, NICU/HDU at King's College Hospital Jeddah (KCHJ).

Role Purpose

To assess nursing needs, plan and implement nursing care, and evaluate care outcomes for patients and their relatives. Deliver high-standard clinical nursing within the ward, manage a group of patients, and take charge of the ward when required. Act as a positive role model upholding King's nursing values and maintaining a professional image of the organization and nursing team.

Key Responsibilities

Clinical Practice

• Consult and coordinate with healthcare team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care plans.
• Communicate with patients and their families in a kind, caring, compassionate and empathetic way.
• Ensure patient concerns are addressed and dealt with promptly and sensitively.
• Promote equality and diversity, ensuring the individual needs of all patients are recognized and met.
• Prepare and administer prescribed medications orally, subcutaneously, and through IV routes, and record administration.
• Report adverse reactions to medications or treatments in accordance with medication administration policy.
• Educate patients on medical and surgical conditions.
• Record patients' medical information and vital signs accurately, escalating when these deviate from normal.
• Monitor and adjust specialized equipment used on patients and interpret and record electronic displays.
• Escalate concerns in a patient's condition to senior nursing team members and medical staff.
• Initiate corrective action whenever the patient displays adverse symptomatology.
• Provide bedside care for a wide variety of patients.
• Initiate patient education plans as prescribed by physician, teaching patients and significant others how to manage their illness or injury, including post-treatment home care needs.
• Change dressings, insert catheters, cannulate, and start IVs.
• Prepare equipment and aid physicians during examination and treatment of patients.
• Respond to life-saving situations based upon nursing standards and protocol.
• Participate in discharge planning.
• Record all care information concisely, accurately, and completely in a timely manner in the nursing and patient record.
• Deliver high-standard evidence-based care to patients at KCH Jeddah.
• Adhere to the Ministry of Health (MOH) guidelines.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate the needs of patients on an ongoing basis.
• Ensure that all patients and their relatives are updated regularly with accurate information presented in a sensitive way and one that they understand.
• Uphold high standards of care in all departments of KCH Jeddah.
• Effectively handover the care of patients using SBAR process with precise and accurate information.
• Demonstrate initiative and problem-solving skills.
• Participate in unit-based councils, raising areas for quality improvement in the ward.
• Be a positive and active member of the nursing team.
• Participate in CBAHI and JCAI assessments.

Education and Research

• Assume responsibility for own professional growth by identifying areas of clinical knowledge and skills that need further development.
• Complete Nursing Competency Program within relevant timescales.
• Participate in and use research and current references in the provision of evidence-based care.
• Assist in the orientation of new staff as assigned, assuming the preceptor role.
• Be cooperative with the nurse roster and Floating policy as needed.
• Maintain ongoing professional development by seeking educational opportunities to remain current in nursing practice and to meet mandatory training and licensure requirements.

Leadership and Management

• Assess patient and family needs in collaboration with the Patient and Family Educators and utilizing appropriate resources.
• Assist the Head Nurse or Charge Nurse to be innovative in designing and implementing changes that will facilitate the development of a patient-centered unit.
• Follow correct communication channels as outlined in department policy, procedure and guideline.
• Participate in the daily unit's safety checks and monitor equipment and supplies in a cost-effective manner, including crash carts.
• Address issues using a problem-solving approach.
• Act for the Charge Nurse as required.

Personal Professional Development

• Be a professional role model through encouraging accountability and advancing nursing practices.
• Maintain responsibility for the confidentiality of information accessed or encountered during work at KCH.
• Comply with the hospital code of conduct and the patient and family rights standards.
• Participate and communicate as an integral member of a multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary healthcare team while demonstrating a high level of professional practice.
• Demonstrate sensitivity to cultural and religious beliefs through a caring, respectful attitude.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor of Nursing or equivalent qualification.
• Minimum 2 years progressive post-graduate experience in the area of specialty.
• Valid Saudi Commission for Health Specialties Certification and MOH license to practice.
• Required trainings, certifications and courses according to area of sub-specialty (for example: BLS, ACLS, PALS, NRP).

Skills & Competencies

• Communication skills: able to relate and communicate with patients and staff at all levels and from different professions, adapting communication style as necessary and working with and through others.
• Problem-solving skills: able to respond to unexpected issues, provide first-line responses, and identify appropriate sources of secondary support.