Job description
Role Overview
Registered Nurse at NMC Healthcare. The post holder will work collaboratively with other team members, uphold and live the NMC Nursing Strategy in order to provide safe and outstanding care to their patients, to the patients' bystanders all the time, every time.
Company Overview
NMC Healthcare is committed to providing clinical excellence through safe, compassionate, and individualized care to every patient, every time. The organization operates through core values of Safety, Excellence, Ethics, Trust, and Collaboration.
Role Purpose
To support and demonstrate the NMC Nursing Mission, Vision, and Values by providing safe, compassionate, individualized care. Every NMC nurse seeks to do the right thing, be the patient's advocate, be open and transparent, deliver safe compassionate care, recognize the uniqueness of each patient, contribute to an outstanding patient experience, engage with and contribute to a learning culture, and lead and influence changes in healthcare.
Key Responsibilities
Patient Assessment & Diagnosis
- Perform systematic patient assessment, re-assessment and collect pertinent data about the patient's health or situation.
- Understand and analyse the assessment information and data.
- Determine actual and potential nursing diagnoses, problems, and issues.
- Record vital signs, recognize, address and escalate all abnormalities.
Care Planning & Coordination
- Assess and identify patients' needs and implement and monitor the patient's medical plan and treatment.
- Define the predicted and expected outcomes of the patient's planned care.
- Create and evaluate patient care plans with the interprofessional team, in collaboration with the patient and patient's bystanders.
- Facilitate the process of safe patient admission, transfer and discharge.
Patient Education & Support
- Provide and coordinate patient care, educating patients and the public about various health conditions.
- Provide advice and emotional support to patients and their family members.
Clinical Procedures & Treatments
- Prepare patients for medical examination and treatment.
- Administer medications and monitor patients for any side effects and reactions.
- Administer treatments such as IV fluids or blood products and monitor patients for any reactions.
- Provide wound care management.
- Assist in medical procedures invasive or non-invasive as needed.
- Perform essential life support as per regulatory requirements and scope such as but not limited to Basic Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Neonatal Resuscitation.
Professional Development & Practice
- Maintain and update technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice.
- Manage their own professional re-licensure.
Health & Safety
- Employ strategies to promote patients' health and a safe environment.
- Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory examinations.
Teamwork & Collaboration
- Work with a team of physicians and other health care specialists or allied health in various settings.
- Be willing to work across departments when necessary.
Qualifications & Experience
- Hold an appropriate license to work as a registered nurse in the relevant regulatory health authority with all the qualifications and experience these mandates.
- Hold a valid American Heart Association Basic Life Support Provider card.
Skills & Competencies
- Communicate clearly and effectively in English (spoken and written).
- Evidenced ability to work as part of an inter-professional team.
- Organizational and administrative skills with which to use the electronic medical record platform for clinical documentation.
- Ability to communicate effectively in Arabic (desirable).