Registered Nurse - OT (CTVS)

Role Overview

Registered Nurse - OT (CTVS) with 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 operating theatre (cardiothoracic and vascular surgery), assess and monitor patient needs, implement medical plans and treatments in collaboration with physicians and allied health professionals, and ensure safe, evidence-based nursing practice across multiple clinical settings.

Key Responsibilities

Patient Assessment and Care Planning

• Perform systematic patient assessment, reassessment 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 Delivery

• Provide and coordinate patient care, educating patients and the public about various health conditions, and providing 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, working with a team of physicians and other health care specialists or allied health in various settings.
• Record vital signs, recognize, address and escalate all abnormalities.
• Prepare patients for medical examination and treatment.
• 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.

Emergency and 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.

Professional Practice

• 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.

Admission 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.
• Manage own professional re-licensure.
• Hold a valid American Heart Association Basic Life Support Provider card.

Skills & Competencies

• Communicate clearly and effectively in English, spoken and written.
• Work as part of an inter-professional team.
• Use electronic medical record platform for clinical documentation with organizational and administrative skills.
• Communicate effectively in Arabic (desirable).

Additional Information

• Be willing to work across departments when necessary.