Registered Nurse

Role Overview

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

Role Purpose

Provide and coordinate patient care, educate patients and the public about various health conditions, and provide advice and emotional support to patients and their family members. Work with a team of physicians and other health care specialists or allied health in various settings.

Key Responsibilities

Patient Assessment and Diagnosis

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

Care Planning and Evaluation

• 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.
• Monitor the patient's medical plan and treatment.

Clinical Care Delivery

• 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.

Life Support and Emergency Response

• Perform essential life support as per regulatory requirements and scope, such as Basic Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, and Neonatal Resuscitation.

Patient Admission, Transfer and Discharge

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

Professional Development and Safety

• 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.

Interprofessional Collaboration

• Work with a team of physicians and other health care specialists or allied health.

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.

Skills & Competencies

Essential

• Communicate clearly and effectively in English (spoken and written).
• Manage own professional re-licensure.
• Work across departments when necessary.

Desirable

• Evidence 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.
• Communicate effectively in Arabic.