Staff Nurse - Plastic Surgery Clinic

Role Overview

Staff Nurse - Plastic Surgery Clinic at American Hospital Dubai. This role delivers specialized nursing care within a plastic surgery clinical environment.

Role Purpose

Deliver comprehensive patient-centered nursing care in a plastic surgery setting, executing clinical procedures, performing wound management, assisting in surgical techniques, and coordinating multidisciplinary care to support patient recovery and safety.

Key Responsibilities

Clinical Procedures & Wound Management

• Execute negative pressure wound therapy within defined professional boundaries.
• Perform wound dressing and alteration within professional guidelines.
• Carry out skin staple and clip removal within professional boundaries.
• Complete suture removal within the limits of professional practice.
• Perform blood extraction and centrifuge for Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) therapy within professional boundaries.

Surgical Assistance

• Aid in breast augmentation following breast reconstruction surgery.
• Assist in electrocautery procedures.
• Assist in skin excisions, biopsies, and incision and drainage procedures.

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.
• Involve the patient, significant others, and health care providers in the plan of care when appropriate.
• Coordinate and plan critical care and 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.

Collaboration & Coordination

• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to provide patient care.

Documentation & Record-Keeping

• 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.

Medication Management

• Perform safe handling and administering of Narcotic, Controlled, and Semi-Controlled Drugs and documentation as directed by policies and procedures.

Compliance & Professional Development

• Assume responsibility for meeting Joint Commission International Accreditation (JCIA) required mandatory education including fire, safety, and infection control.
• 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).
• Maintain mandatory educational requirements.
• Participate in ongoing educational activities.

Quality & Safety

• 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 staff meetings and unit committees and projects.
• Participate in developing and achieving unit goals.

Administrative

• Perform clerical duties when needed.
• Perform additional duties when required.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in nursing (minimum three years full-time course duration), or Degree in Nursing (minimum two years course duration) and Registration as a Registered Nurse from Canada, USA, UK, Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand, or Australia.
• 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.
• 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).
• Must hold a valid License or Registration to practice in their home country and/or country of last employment (where applicable).
• Minimum of two years of recent post-graduate experience in Plastic Surgery Nursing.
• 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.

Skills & Competencies

• Must hold a minimum of valid Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification or others according to the scope of practice.
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) certification is essential.