Staff Nurse - ICU TP

Role Overview

Staff Nurse - ICU TP at American Hospital Dubai. Provides direct and indirect age-specific care for assigned patients in the Intensive Care Unit per scheduled shifts.

Role Purpose

Deliver professional, safe patient care encompassing nursing assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, evaluation, and care coordination for patients across the healthcare continuum involving families. Abide by Joint Commission International (JCI) requirements, including International Patient Safety Goals and national and international standards.

Key Responsibilities

Patient Assessment & Care Planning

• 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
• Assess patient and family's physical and psychological needs
• Recognize subtle cues to anticipate potential problems
• Involve the patient, significant others, and health care providers in the plan of care when appropriate
• Coordinate and plan critical care and clinical pathway, prioritizing care based on individual needs
• Revise the care plan as necessary
• Initiate appropriate transfer plan

Collaboration & Coordination

• Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team to provide patient care
• Participate in staff meetings and unit committees and projects
• Participate in developing and achieving unit goals

Documentation & Records

• Document all relevant data in the medical record according to hospital and departmental standards

Environment & Equipment Management

• Ensure availability and maintenance of supplies and equipment needed for the unit and patient care
• Maintain a safe environment for patients and staff
• Perform clerical duties when needed

Professional Development & Compliance

• Assume responsibility for meeting Joint Commission International Accreditation (JCIA) required mandatory education including fire, safety, infection control and others
• Maintain clinical and professional competency based on the latest research and established standards of practice
• Complete yearly critical care nursing competencies (basic)
• Ensure completion of unit competencies including pain management and utilization of emergency department devices
• Participate in unit-based Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) activities including data collection, CQI teams, incident reporting, customer complaint reporting, and medication error reporting
• Participate in ongoing educational activities
• Maintain mandatory educational requirements
• Perform safe handling and administration of Narcotic, Controlled and Semi-Controlled Drugs and documentation as directed by policies and procedures
• Perform additional duties when required

Advanced Physical Assessment & Monitoring

• Perform Advanced Physical Assessment
• Interpret Arterial Blood Gas (ABG)
• Interpret Basic ECG
• Monitor Basic Hemodynamics including Arterial Pressure and Central Venous Pressure
• Operate Bladder Scanner
• Collect Blood Culture Samples

Venous Access Device Management

• Care for Implanted Venous Access Devices (IVAD) including accessing implanted port, sampling blood from implanted port, and removing non-coring needle from implanted port
• Care for Central Venous Access Devices (CVAD) including sampling blood from central venous access catheter, flushing and locking central venous access catheter, changing dressing on central venous catheter, and changing needless connector and line tubing on central venous catheter

Chest Tube Management

• Prepare Chest Tubes including monitoring and caring for chest tube drainage system and setting up chest tube drainage system

Critical Care Procedures & Monitoring

• Provide Care for Dying Patients
• Demonstrate competency in Epidural Management including programming, care, and discontinuation
• Insert Internal Fecal Containment Device
• Monitor Intra-Abdominal Pressure
• Provide insertion assistance, monitoring, and care for Intracranial Pressure Catheter
• Use Ketone Meter

Mechanical Ventilation Management

• Handle Mechanically Ventilated Patients including suctioning trachea of intubated patients, removing endotracheal tubes, intubating with direct visualization, providing positive pressure mechanical ventilation, mobilizing patients receiving mechanical ventilation, monitoring and caring for long-term mechanical ventilation, and weaning patients off mechanical ventilation
• Apply Non-invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation

Pain Management & Sedation

• Demonstrate competency in Patient-Controlled Analgesia (PCA) Pump Use
• Perform Procedural Sedation for Non-Anesthesia Nurses

Tracheostomy Care

• Provide Care for Tracheostomies including suctioning tracheostomies, caring for tracheostomy cannula and stoma, and cleaning tracheostomy tube outer cannula and stoma

Defibrillator Operations

• Use Defibrillator for Cardioversion, Defibrillation, and Transcutaneous Pacing

Intermediate & Advanced Procedures

• Perform Advanced Hemodynamic Monitoring Techniques including Minimally Invasive Hemodynamic Monitoring (FlowTrac) and monitoring Pulmonary Artery Pressure and Pulmonary Arterial Occlusion Pressure
• Administer Ci-Ca (Calcium-Citrate Anticoagulation) CRRT
• Perform Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT)
• Implement Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)
• Assist in Intra-aortic Balloon Pump procedures including inserting and removing Intra-aortic Balloon (IABP)
• Conduct Organ Donation and Brain Stem Testing
• Provide Pacemaker care
• Perform Plasmapheresis

Pediatric ICU Cross-Training (When Applicable)

• Perform Advanced Physical Assessment in Pediatrics
• Interpret Arterial Blood Gas (ABG) results in Pediatrics
• Interpret Basic ECG in Pediatrics
• Monitor Arterial Pressure in Pediatrics
• Monitor Central Venous Pressure in Pediatrics
• Operate Bladder Scanner in Pediatrics
• Collect Blood Culture and Samples in Pediatrics
• Care for Implanted Venous Access Devices (IVAD) in Pediatrics including accessing implanted port, sampling blood from implanted port, and removing non-coring needle from implanted port
• Care for Central Venous Access Devices (CVAD) in Pediatrics including sampling blood from central venous access catheter and flushing central venous access catheter

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in nursing with minimum of three (3) years full-time course duration, OR Degree in nursing with minimum two (2) years course duration and Registration as a Registered Nurse from Canada, USA, UK, Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia
• Minimum of two (2) years of recent post-graduate experience in the Intensive Care Unit or Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
• Knowledge of and ability to render care and services based on age, appropriateness, and developmental needs of patients
• Skills in the assessment of patient and family's physical and psychological needs
• Skills in coordination and planning of care and prioritizing care based on individual needs

UAE Specific Requirements

• UAE National Graduates: 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.
• Non-UAE National Graduates from UAE Universities: Required to successfully complete six (6) months of clinical training post-graduation in an APS health facility (except for Registered and Assistant Nurse titles)

Skills & Competencies

• Valid License or Registration to practice in home country and/or country of last employment (where applicable)
• Minimum of valid Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification or others according to the scope of practice
• Advanced Physical Assessment
• Arterial Blood Gas (ABG) interpretation
• Basic ECG interpretation
• Hemodynamic monitoring
• Venous access device management
• Chest tube management
• Mechanical ventilation management
• Tracheostomy care
• Epidural management
• Patient-Controlled Analgesia (PCA) Pump operation
• Procedural Sedation
• Defibrillator operation
• Advanced hemodynamic monitoring techniques
• Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT)
• Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)
• Intra-aortic Balloon Pump (IABP) procedures
• Organ Donation and Brain Stem Testing
• Pacemaker care
• Plasmapheresis
• Critical care nursing competencies
• Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) participation
• Patient and family-centered care coordination
• Multi-disciplinary team collaboration

Additional Information

• Full details are available on the employer's original posting.