وصف الوظيفة
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.
Company Overview
NMC Healthcare is the most trusted and largest private healthcare company in the UAE for over 50 years. With a dedicated team of doctors, nurses, allied health and support personnel, NMC owns and manages numerous healthcare facilities in the UAE, treating millions of patients every year. The company has specialized verticals that include Multi-Specialty Care, Maternity and Fertility, Long-Term and Home Care, Medical Centers, Day Surgery Centers, Operations and Management. NMC Healthcare facilitates a challenging and motivating work environment that enables ample scope for career growth and development, creates a conducive work culture that attracts and retains talented and committed individuals, encourages lifelong learning, and delivers the best care to customers while striving to create a world-class platform for nurturing the professionals of tomorrow.
Role Purpose
Provide and coordinate patient care in the outpatient department, educating patients and the public about various health conditions while providing advice and emotional support to patients and their family members. Work with a team of physicians and other healthcare specialists and allied health professionals to assess, plan, implement and monitor patient medical plans and treatment.
Key Responsibilities
Assessment and 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.
- Assess and identify patients' needs and implement and monitor the patient's medical plan and treatment.
Care Delivery and Monitoring
- Create and evaluate patient care plans with the interprofessional team, in collaboration with the patient and patient's bystanders.
- 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.
- Prepare patients for medical examination and treatment.
- Assist in medical procedures, invasive or non-invasive, as needed.
Scope and Compliance
- Maintain and update technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice.
- Employ strategies to promote patients' health and a safe environment.
- Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory examinations.
- 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.
Admission, Transfer and Discharge
- Facilitate the process of safe patient admission, transfer and discharge.
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 require.
- 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 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
- Be willing to work across departments when necessary.