Registered Nurse - OB-GYN/Maternity

Role Overview

Registered Nurse - OB-GYN/Maternity at NMC Royal Hospital. This role provides specialized nursing care across obstetric, gynecological, and maternity services.

Role Purpose

Deliver comprehensive, safe, and compassionate patient care to women and newborns throughout pregnancy, labor, delivery, and postpartum periods. Coordinate care with multidisciplinary teams, educate patients and families, and maintain the highest clinical standards in all obstetric and neonatal settings.

Key Responsibilities

Patient Assessment and Care Planning

• Perform systematic patient assessment, reassessment, and collection of pertinent health data.
• Analyze assessment information and data to identify actual and potential nursing diagnoses, problems, and issues.
• Define predicted and expected outcomes of planned patient care.
• Create and evaluate patient care plans with the interprofessional team in collaboration with patients and their family members.
• Perform initial assessment and reassessment of patients in the department including neonates, pediatric, and adult patients.

Clinical Care Delivery

• Provide and coordinate patient care, education, and emotional support to patients and family members.
• Assess and identify patient needs; implement and monitor the patient's medical plan and treatment.
• Record vital signs, recognize, address, and escalate all abnormalities.
• Prepare patients for medical examination and treatment.
• Administer medications and monitor patients for side effects and reactions.
• Perform Appropriateness review of medications before preparing and administering medications as required.
• Administer treatments such as IV fluids or blood products and monitor patients for reactions.
• Initiate Intravenous Therapy as per Doctor's orders.
• Provide wound care management.
• Assist in medical procedures, invasive or non-invasive, as needed.
• Employ strategies to promote patients' health and safe environment.

Obstetric and Maternal Care

• Provide surgical care including pre-operative and post-operative care for cesarean sections.
• Prepare mothers for cesarean sections and provide comprehensive perioperative care.
• Monitor early progress of laboring mothers before transferring to labor ward; interpret fetal heart rate and notify physician when appropriate for progress or problems.
• Demonstrate knowledge of caring for patients admitted for induction of labor.
• Perform post-partum care of mother, including fundal massage and monitoring of vital signs and blood loss.
• Demonstrate knowledge of electronic fetal monitoring using CTG and central monitoring system.
• Provide postnatal care and breastfeeding advice and support to women and their babies.
• Actively promote and assist mothers with breastfeeding, basic newborn care, and patient education.
• Promote newborn and parent bonding.

Neonatal Care

• Demonstrate skills in routine care for newborns, including rooming-in with mothers.
• Care for neonates according to established protocols and standards.

Emergency Response and Life Support

• Perform essential life support as per regulatory requirements and scope, including Basic Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, and Neonatal Resuscitation.
• Participate in emergency code drills and perform as necessary.

Laboratory and Diagnostic Services

• Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory examinations.
• Collect specimens and blood for diagnostic testing and manage critical values.
• Demonstrate knowledge of ordering blood products and monitor patients receiving blood products.

Obstetric Emergency Management

• Demonstrate knowledge of obstetric emergencies, nursing management, and care as per protocols.

Team Leadership and Coordination

• Act as Team Leader in the absence of the Charge Nurse and delegate tasks as per skills and scope of practice.
• Coordinate with the Obstetrician, Neonatologist, Pediatrician, and other allied workers to provide comprehensive care.
• Work with a team of physicians and other healthcare specialists and allied health professionals in various settings.

Patient Admission, Transfer, and Discharge

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

Professional Development

• Maintain and update technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice.
• Manage own professional re-licensure.

Patient and Public Education

• Educate patients and the public about various health conditions.
• Provide appropriate health education to patients and their families.

Qualifications & Experience

• Current, valid licensure as a Registered Nurse in the relevant regulatory health authority with all qualifications and experience these mandates require.
• Valid American Heart Association Basic Life Support Provider card.

Skills & Competencies

• Clear and effective communication in English, both spoken and written.
• Electronic fetal monitoring using CTG and central monitoring systems.
• Neonatal resuscitation and advanced life support techniques.
• Specimen collection and laboratory testing procedures.
• Obstetric emergency response and management.
• Patient education and counseling.
• Interprofessional collaboration and coordination.
• Task delegation and team leadership.
• IV therapy initiation and administration.
• Perioperative care and surgical assistance.

Additional Information

• Willingness to work across departments when necessary.
• Ability to provide a high standard of care to all specialties within the hospital's scope of practice.