Registered Nurse - OPD

Role Overview

Registered Nurse - OPD at NMC Healthcare. The post holder will always work within the scope of practice, putting the health, wellbeing and safety of their patient first as they assess, plan, implement and evaluate their needs.

Role Purpose

Provide and coordinate patient care in the outpatient department, educating patients and the public about health conditions while delivering advice and emotional support to patients and their family members.

Key Responsibilities

Patient Assessment & 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.

Clinical Care & Monitoring

• Assess and identify patients' needs and implement and monitor the patient's medical plan and treatment.
• 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.

Diagnostic & Procedural Support

• Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory examinations.
• Prepare patients for medical examination and treatment.
• Assist in medical procedures invasive or non-invasive as needed.

Emergency & 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.

Patient Safety & Environment

• Employ strategies to promote patients' health and a safe environment.
• Facilitate the process of safe patient admission, transfer and discharge.

Professional Development & Collaboration

• Work with a team of physicians and other health care specialists or allied health in various settings.
• Maintain and update technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice.

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 mandate.
• Manage their own professional re-licensure.

Skills & Competencies

• Hold a valid American Heart Association Basic Life Support Provider card.
• Communicate clearly and effectively in English (spoken and written).
• Demonstrated ability to work as part of an inter-professional team.
• Organizational and administrative skills 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.