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Role Overview
Registered Nurse - OPD at NMC Healthcare, providing clinical excellence through safe, compassionate, and individualized care in the outpatient department setting.
Company Overview
NMC Healthcare is committed to clinical excellence and safe, compassionate, individualized patient care. The nursing strategy centers on safety, excellence, ethics, trust, and collaboration, with a vision for every nurse to advocate for patients, deliver outstanding care, and contribute to a learning culture in healthcare.
Role Purpose
To provide safe, outstanding care to patients and their families in the outpatient department by assessing patient needs, implementing and monitoring treatment plans, coordinating care with the interprofessional team, and maintaining clinical excellence and patient safety at all times.
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 analyze 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 members.
Clinical Monitoring and Escalation
- Record vital signs, recognize, address, and escalate all abnormalities.
- Monitor and respond to patient phone calls, messages, and triage concerns appropriately.
- Monitor patients for medication side effects and reactions.
- Monitor patients for reactions to IV fluids, blood products, and treatments.
Patient Care Delivery
- Provide and coordinate patient care, educating patients and the public about various health conditions.
- Provide advice and emotional support to patients and their family members.
- Assess and identify patients' needs and implement and monitor the patient's medical plan and treatment.
- Prepare patients for medical examination and treatment.
- Prepare patients for physician or provider examinations and assist during procedures.
- Administer medications, injections, immunizations, and IV therapies per clinic protocols.
- 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.
- Assist in medical procedures, invasive or non-invasive, as needed.
Procedures and Life Support
- Perform essential life support as per regulatory requirements and scope, including but not limited to Basic Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, and Neonatal Resuscitation.
- Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory examinations.
Patient Flow and Safety
- Facilitate the process of safe patient admission, transfer, and discharge.
- Employ strategies to promote patients' health and a safe environment.
- Ensure infection control standards and patient safety practices are followed.
Professional Development
- Maintain and update technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice.
Interprofessional Collaboration
- Work with a team of physicians and other health care specialists or allied health in various settings.
- Work collaboratively with other team members and 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.
- Manage their own professional re-licensure.
Skills & Competencies
- Communicate clearly and effectively in English, spoken and written.
- Evidenced ability to work as part of an interprofessional 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
- Be willing to work across departments when necessary.
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