Wound Care Staff Nurse

Role Overview

Wound Care Staff Nurse position at American Hospital Dubai. The role provides direct and indirect age-specific care for assigned patients in the Wound Care Unit per scheduled shifts, encompassing nursing assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, evaluation, and care coordination across the healthcare continuum.

Role Purpose

Deliver professional, patient-centered nursing care in the Wound Care Unit while maintaining safe patient care standards and abiding 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.
• Conduct 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.
• Coordinate and plan critical care/clinical pathways and prioritize care based on individual needs.
• Revise the care plan as necessary.
• Initiate appropriate transfer plans.

Wound Care Interventions

• Provide burn care for the chest, abdomen, and back.
• Perform appliance care and provide long-term care for patients with colostomy and ileostomy.
• Apply and monitor Negative Pressure Wound Therapy.
• Remove skin staples and clips safely.
• Conduct comprehensive wound assessment and documentation.
• Perform nursing interventions and procedures per established standards of care (Competency List "Green Book") and policy and procedures.

Care Coordination & Collaboration

• Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team to provide patient care.
• Partner with health care providers to coordinate patient care delivery.

Documentation & Records

• Document all relevant data in the medical record according to hospital and departmental standards.
• Ensure documentation of wound assessments meets unit requirements.

Safety & Environment Management

• Maintain a safe environment for patients and staff.
• Perform safe handling and administration of Narcotic/Controlled and Semi-Controlled Drugs and documentation as directed by policies and procedures.
• Ensure availability and maintenance of supplies and equipment needed for the unit and patient care.

Competency & Professional Development

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

Quality & Continuous Improvement

• 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 achieving unit goals.

Organizational Responsibilities

• Participate in staff meetings and unit committees and projects.
• 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 (minimum of 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, and 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 (6) months of clinical training post-graduation in an APS health facility (except for Registered and Assistant Nurse titles).

Licensure & Certifications

• Valid License/Registration to practice in home country and/or country of last employment (where applicable).
• Minimum of a valid Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification or others according to the scope of practice.

Professional Experience

• Minimum of two (2) years of recent post-graduate experience in Inpatient/Wound Care 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.