Staff Nurse - Pediatric Urgent Care TP

Role Overview

Staff Nurse - Pediatric Urgent Care TP at American Hospital Dubai. The role provides direct and indirect age-specific care for assigned patients in the Pediatric Urgent Care Clinic per scheduled shifts.

Role Purpose

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

Key Responsibilities

Patient Care & Assessment

• 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.
• Recognize subtle cues to anticipate potential problems.
• Involve the patient, significant others, and health care providers in the plan of care when appropriate.

Care Planning & Coordination

• Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team to provide patient care.
• Coordinate and plan critical care and clinical pathway based on individual needs.
• Prioritize care based on individual needs.
• Revise the care plan as necessary.
• Initiate appropriate transfer plan.
• Assess patient and family's physical and psychological needs.
• Coordinate and plan care based on individual needs.

Clinical Procedures & Interventions

• Provide emergency care to pediatric patients with suspected sepsis.
• Administer oral medications to infants, toddlers, and older children.
• Calculate fluid requirements for pediatric patients.
• Perform a 12-lead ECG on pediatric patients.
• Collect blood culture samples from pediatric patients.
• Perform nursing interventions and procedures per established standards of care, Competency List "Green Book" policy and procedures.

Documentation & Record-Keeping

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

Safety & Compliance

• 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.
• Ensure completion of unit competencies, including pain management and utilization of Emergency Department devices.

Equipment & Supplies

• Ensure availability and maintenance of supplies and equipment needed for the unit and patient care.

Professional Development & Quality Improvement

• Assume responsibility for meeting Joint Commission International Accreditation (JCIA) required mandatory education, including fire, safety, infection control, and others.
• Participate in staff meetings and unit committees and projects.
• Participate in developing and achieving unit goals.
• Maintain clinical and professional competency based on latest research and established standards of practice.
• Complete yearly critical care nursing competencies (basic).
• Participate in unit-based Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) activities, including data collection, CQI teams, incident reporting, customer complaint reporting, medication error reporting.
• Participate in ongoing educational activities.
• Maintain mandatory educational requirements.

Administrative Duties

• Perform clerical duties when needed.
• 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 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".

Qualifications & Experience

Education

• Bachelor's degree in nursing with minimum 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, or Australia.

Licensing & Certifications

• Must hold a valid License or Registration to practice in home country and/or country of last employment (where applicable).
• Must hold a minimum of a valid Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification or others according to the scope of practice.
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) certification required.
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification required.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification required (must be attained within 6 months of employment through American Hospital Dubai's course).
• Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC) certification preferred.
• Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) certification preferred.

Professional Experience

• Minimum two (2) years of recent post-graduate experience in Pediatric Urgent Care Nursing.
• 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 Requirements for UAE Nationals

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

Special Requirements 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).

Skills & Competencies

• Age-appropriate and developmentally-informed patient care.
• Patient and family assessment for physical and psychological needs.
• Care coordination and prioritization.
• Emergency and critical care nursing.
• Pediatric medication administration.
• Pediatric fluid and electrolyte management.
• Cardiac assessment and ECG performance.
• Blood culture collection.
• Safe handling of controlled substances.
• Continuous Quality Improvement participation.
• Clinical documentation.
• Multi-disciplinary collaboration.