Registered Nurse -Cath lab

Role Overview

Registered Nurse – Cath Lab at NMC Healthcare. The role provides and coordinates patient care in the cardiac catheterization laboratory setting.

Role Purpose

Deliver comprehensive patient assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care within the scope of nursing practice. Prioritize patient health, wellbeing and safety while working collaboratively with physicians, specialists and allied health professionals across the interprofessional team.

Key Responsibilities

Patient Assessment & Planning

• Perform systematic patient assessment, reassessment and collection of pertinent health data.
• Analyze assessment information and data.
• Determine actual and potential nursing diagnoses, problems and issues.
• Define predicted and expected outcomes of planned patient care.
• Create and evaluate patient care plans with the interprofessional team in collaboration with the patient and patient's family members.

Patient Care Delivery

• Provide and coordinate patient care, education and emotional support.
• Assess and identify patient needs and implement and monitor the medical plan and treatment.
• Record vital signs and recognize, address and escalate all abnormalities.
• Administer medications and monitor patients for side effects and reactions.
• Administer treatments such as IV fluids or blood products and monitor for reactions.
• Provide wound care management.
• Prepare patients for medical examination and treatment.
• Assist in invasive and non-invasive medical procedures as needed.

Clinical Skills & Safety

• Maintain and update technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice.
• Perform essential life support as per regulatory requirements and scope, including Basic Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support and Neonatal Resuscitation.
• Employ strategies to promote patient health and a safe environment.
• Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory examinations.

Admission, Transfer & Discharge

• Facilitate the safe admission, transfer and discharge of patients.

Qualifications & Experience

• Hold an appropriate license to work as a registered nurse in the relevant regulatory health authority with all qualifications and experience mandated by that authority.
• Manage own professional re-licensure.
• Hold a valid American Heart Association Basic Life Support Provider card.

Skills & Competencies

• Communicate clearly and effectively in English (spoken and written).
• Communicate effectively in Arabic (desirable).
• Work as part of an interprofessional team (desirable).
• Use electronic medical record platform for clinical documentation (desirable).
• Organizational and administrative skills (desirable).

Additional Information

• Be willing to work across departments when necessary.