Staff Nurse - Adult Medical Surgical Unit TP

Role Overview

Staff Nurse - Adult Medical Surgical Unit TP at American Hospital Dubai. This position provides direct and indirect age-specific care for assigned patients in medical-surgical nursing units per scheduled shifts.

Role Purpose

The role encompasses nursing assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, evaluation, professional performance, and coordination of care for patients across the healthcare continuum involving families. The position delivers clinical, educational, quality, and fiscal patient care outcomes aligned with American Hospital Dubai's policies, procedures, guidelines, Professional Practice Model, and standards of practice.

Key Responsibilities

Patient Assessment & Care Planning

• Provide age-specific patient-centered care utilizing the nursing process.
• Perform patient assessment using appropriate, problem-focused, and age-specific assessment techniques.
• Perform continual critical care assessment of patient and family's physical and psychological needs.
• Develop individualized care plans based on nursing diagnosis with updated revisions according to evaluation and re-assessment findings; consider activities of daily living such as hygiene needs in daily care planning.
• Set priorities and plan implementation of patient care; ensure implementation is completed in a timely, organized manner following American Hospital Dubai's nursing standards, policies, and procedures.
• Support activities of daily living such as hygiene needs.
• Recognize subtle cues to anticipate potential problems.
• Assess patient and family readiness and identify learning needs.

Clinical Intervention & Treatment

• Administer medications; monitor desirable and undesirable effects; intervene appropriately.
• Provide basic life support when needed.
• Perform safe handling, drawing, and administrating narcotic/controlled drugs and documentation as directed by policies and procedures.
• Understand the responsibilities of safe handling and administration of narcotic/controlled drugs and documentation as directed by policies and procedures.
• Perform special procedures such as peritoneal dialysis, chemotherapy administration, and auto-transfusion in accordance with procedures and guidelines, following orders and appropriate monitoring.
• Deliver pre-operative and post-operative patient care.
• Ensure that patients are provided with appropriate nutrition.
• Manage kidney transplant patients when applicable.
• Manage patients with infectious diseases when applicable.
• Manage pediatric patients with infectious diseases when applicable.
• Manage patients with psychiatric problems when applicable.
• Manage patients on radioactive iodine precautions when applicable.

Infection Control, Safety & Competency

• Implement and monitor infection control measures.
• Demonstrate awareness and knowledge of infection control, pain management, and wound care practices and standards; report and document as directed in relevant policies and procedures.
• Apply safety measures related to patient care.
• Operate all unit-required equipment safely.
• Maintain a safe environment for patients and staff.
• Ensure completion of unit competencies, including pain management and utilization of emergency department devices.
• Maintain clinical and professional competency based on the latest research and established standards of practice.
• Complete yearly critical care nursing competencies at basic level.
• Complete all core competencies for nursing and applicable unit-specific competencies within prescribed timelines.
• Demonstrate understanding and familiarity with facility management and safety plans.
• Assume responsibility for meeting Joint Commission International Accreditation required mandatory education, including fire, safety, infection control, and others.
• Maintain mandatory educational requirements.
• Participate in ongoing educational activities.

Coordination & Collaboration

• Involve the patient, significant others, and health care providers in the plan of care when appropriate.
• Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team to provide patient care.
• Coordinate and plan critical care/clinical pathway, and prioritize care based on individual needs; revise the care plan as necessary.
• Provide accurate, complete, and prompt reports on patient care conditions and response to treatment utilizing the standardized Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation (SBAR); collaborate effectively as a multidisciplinary team member.
• Demonstrate support of leadership; encourage team decisions and cooperation within and across departments; assist in resolving differences of opinion.
• Lead/encourage multidisciplinary approach for patient's discharge.

Discharge & Transfer Planning

• Initiate appropriate transfer plan.
• Demonstrate attention to discharge planning; address discharge planning on admission, ongoing, and as care plans are modified; complete discharge and transfer procedures in a timely and complete manner.

Documentation & Reporting

• Document all relevant data in the medical record according to hospital/departmental standards.
• Ensure nursing documentation is informative, complete, accurate, concise, and legible, following American Hospital Dubai and Joint Commission International Accreditation standards and reflecting the nursing process from assessment through evaluation.
• Document patient and family education.

Patient Education

• Develop and implement the teaching plan utilizing the patient education manual.
• Evaluate the teaching-learning process.
• Provide emotional support and measures to alleviate fear and anxiety.

Quality Improvement & Professional Development

• Participate in unit-based Continuous Quality Improvement activities, including data collection, CQI teams, incident reporting, customer complaint reporting, and medication error reporting.
• Participate in quality initiatives and quality improvement activities to improve the unit standards of quality provided.
• Participate in staff meetings and unit committees/projects.
• Participate in developing and achieving unit goals.
• Demonstrate understanding of cultural differences among customers and colleagues; demonstrate sensitivity and tolerance to cultural differences.

Operational & Administrative

• Ensure availability and maintenance of supplies and equipment needed for the unit and patient care.
• Perform clerical duties when needed.
• Work in other areas within the hospital when assigned, within the scope of practice.
• Perform additional duties when required.

Preceptor Responsibilities (When Applicable)

• Complete the preceptor workshop and meet the criteria indicators for the preceptor role on the unit.
• Plan, implement, and evaluate the individualized competency-based orientation in collaboration with orientee, Nurse Manager, and Clinical Resource Nurse.
• Provide appropriate feedback in a timely manner to orientees and Nurse Managers.
• Provide objective documentation to the Nurse Manager utilizing the American Hospital Dubai orientation package.

Qualifications & Experience

Education

• Bachelor's degree in nursing with minimum three years full-time course duration, OR
• Degree in nursing with minimum two years course duration and registration as a Registered Nurse from Canada, USA, UK, Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand, or Australia.

Professional Experience

• Minimum two years of recent post-graduate experience in a Medical-Surgical speciality.
• Private hospital experience preferred.
• Knowledge of and ability to render care and services based on age, appropriateness, and developmental needs of patients.
• Skills in assessment of patient and family's physical and psychological needs.
• Skills in coordination and planning of care and prioritizing care based on individual needs.

Special Provisions for UAE Nationals

• UAE nationals who are graduates of UAE or non-UAE universities are exempted from the experience and clinical training requirements for the applied title.
• UAE nationals must submit a copy of their birth certificate and the mother's family book.

Special Provisions for Non-UAE Nationals

• Non-UAE national graduates from UAE universities are required to successfully complete six months of clinical training post-graduation in an APS health facility (except for Registered and Assistant Nurse titles).

Licenses & Certifications

• Must hold a valid license/registration to practice in their home country and/or country of last employment (where applicable).
• Must hold a minimum of a valid Basic Life Support Certification or others according to the scope of practice.
• Basic Cardiac Life Support certification is essential.