Registered Nurse - Obstetrics and Gynecology

Role Overview

Registered Nurse - Obstetrics and Gynecology at NMC Healthcare.

Role Purpose

Provide comprehensive patient care in obstetrics and gynecology settings, coordinating treatment plans with interprofessional teams, educating patients and families, and maintaining clinical excellence in a dynamic healthcare environment.

Key Responsibilities

Patient Care & Assessment

• Provide and coordinate patient care, educating patients and the public about various health conditions.
• Assess and identify patients' needs and implement and monitor the patient's medical plan and treatment.
• Perform systematic patient assessment and re-assessment.
• 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.
• Record vital signs, recognize, address and escalate all abnormalities.

Care Planning & Collaboration

• Create and evaluate patient care plans with the interprofessional team, in collaboration with the patient and patient's bystanders.
• Work with a team of physicians and other health care specialists or allied health in various settings.
• 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.
• Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory examinations.

Life Support & Emergency Response

• 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.

Operations & Safety

• Facilitate the process of safe patient admission, transfer and discharge.
• Employ strategies to promote patients' health and a safe environment.
• Maintain and update technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice.

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 require.
• 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).
• Demonstrate ability to work as part of an inter-professional team.
• Demonstrate organizational and administrative skills with which to use the electronic medical record platform for clinical documentation.
• Communicate effectively in Arabic (desirable).

Additional Information

• Be willing to work across departments when necessary.