Registered Nurse- NICU

Role Overview

Registered Nurse – NICU at NMC Healthcare. Location not specified in source.

Role Purpose

Provide and coordinate patient care in the NICU setting, educate patients and families about health conditions, and deliver emotional support while working within the scope of nursing practice to prioritize patient health, wellbeing and safety.

Key Responsibilities

Patient Assessment & Care Planning

• Perform systematic patient assessment, reassessment and collect pertinent data about the patient's health or situation.
• Understand and analyze the assessment information and data.
• Determine actual and potential nursing diagnoses, problems, and issues.
• 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 family members.
• Assess and identify patients' needs and implement and monitor the patient's medical plan and treatment.

Clinical Skills & Procedures

• Record vital signs, recognize, address and escalate all abnormalities.
• 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.
• Prepare patients for medical examination and treatment.
• 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, and Neonatal Resuscitation.

Professional Practice

• Maintain and update technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice.
• Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory examinations.
• Employ strategies to promote patients' health and a safe environment.
• Work with a team of physicians and other health care specialists or allied health in various settings.
• Manage own professional re-licensure.

Patient & Family Support

• Provide advice and emotional support to patients and their family members.
• Educate patients and the public about various health conditions.

Care Coordination

• Facilitate the process of safe patient admission, transfer and discharge.

Qualifications & Experience

• Appropriate license to work as a registered nurse in the relevant regulatory health authority with all qualifications and experience these mandates require.

Skills & Competencies

• Valid American Heart Association Basic Life Support Provider card.
• Clear and effective communication in English, spoken and written.
• Ability to work as part of an inter-professional team.
• Organizational and administrative skills with electronic medical record platform for clinical documentation.
• Ability to communicate effectively in Arabic (desirable).

Additional Information

• Willing to work across departments when necessary.
• Must work within the scope of practice, putting the health, wellbeing and safety of the patient first as they assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient needs.