Staff Nurse - Labor & Delivery TP

Role Overview

Staff Nurse - Labor & Delivery TP at American Hospital Dubai. The position provides direct and indirect age-specific care for assigned patients in the Labour and Delivery Unit per scheduled shifts.

Role Purpose

Deliver professional, safe, patient-centered care across the healthcare continuum for patients and families in the Labour and Delivery Unit. The role encompasses nursing assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, evaluation, and care coordination while adhering to Joint Commission International (JCI) requirements, including International Patient Safety Goals and national and international standards.

Key Responsibilities

Patient-Centered Care

• 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.
• Involve the patient, significant others, and healthcare providers in the plan of care when appropriate.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary 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.
• Initiate appropriate transfer plan.
• Recognize subtle cues to anticipate potential problems.
• Document all relevant data in the medical record according to hospital and departmental standards.

Unit Operations & Safety

• Ensure availability and maintenance of supplies and equipment needed for the unit and patient care.
• Perform clerical duties when needed.
• Maintain a safe environment for patients and staff.
• Perform safe handling and administering of Narcotic/Controlled and Semi-Controlled Drugs and documentation as directed by policies and procedures.
• Assume responsibility for meeting Joint Commission International Accreditation (JCIA) required mandatory education, including fire, safety, infection control, and others.

Professional Development & Compliance

• 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 (basic).
• Participate in ongoing educational activities.
• Maintain mandatory educational requirements.

Quality Improvement & Engagement

• Participate in staff meetings and unit committees and projects.
• Participate in developing and achieving unit goals.
• Participate in unit-based Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) activities, including data collection, CQI teams, incident reporting, customer complaint reporting, and medication error reporting.

Nursing Interventions & Procedures

• Perform nursing interventions and procedures per established standards of care (Competency List "Green Book") policy and procedures, including assisting with antepartum external cephalic version, conducting Apgar scoring, performing bladder catheterization during labour, assisting in emergent cesarean birth, and performing neonatal resuscitation in the delivery room.

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 the orientee, nurse manager, and clinical resource nurse.
• Provide appropriate feedback on time to orientee and Nurse Manager.
• Provide objective documentation to the nurse manager utilizing American Hospital Dubai's established standards of care (Competency List "Green Book" and "Blue Book").

Additional Duties

• Perform additional duties when required.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing (minimum three (3) years full-time course duration) OR Degree in Nursing (minimum two (2) years course duration) and Registration as a Registered Nurse from Canada, USA, UK, Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand, or Australia.
• Minimum two (2) years of recent post-graduate experience in Labour and Delivery Unit.
• 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.
• Valid License or Registration to practice in home country and/or country of last employment (where applicable).
• Minimum valid Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification or others according to the scope of practice.

Additional Information

Special Considerations

• For UAE nationals: 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.
• For 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).