Registered Nurse -OT

Role Overview

Registered Nurse - OT at NMC Healthcare. This role provides direct patient care in the occupational therapy setting, working within a multidisciplinary healthcare team across various care environments.

Role Purpose

Deliver comprehensive patient care by assessing needs, implementing treatment plans, monitoring outcomes, and coordinating safe admission, transfer, and discharge processes while maintaining clinical competency and prioritizing patient safety and wellbeing.

Key Responsibilities

Patient Assessment & Care Planning

• Perform systematic patient assessment and re-assessment, collecting pertinent data about the patient's health or situation.
• Understand and analyse 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 bystanders.

Patient Care Delivery

• 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.
• Assess and identify patients' needs and implement and monitor the patient's medical plan and treatment.
• Work with a team of physicians, other health care specialists, and allied health professionals.
• Employ strategies to promote patients' health and a safe environment.

Clinical Monitoring & Vital Signs

• Record vital signs, recognize, address, and escalate all abnormalities.
• 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.

Wound & Procedure Management

• Provide wound care management.
• Assist in medical procedures, invasive or non-invasive, as needed.

Life Support & Emergency Response

• Perform essential life support as per regulatory requirements and scope, including but not limited to Basic Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, and Neonatal Resuscitation.

Patient Movement & Transitions

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

Professional Development & Practice

• Maintain and update technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice.
• Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory examinations.
• 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.

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.
• Hold a valid American Heart Association Basic Life Support Provider card.
• Manage own professional re-licensure.

Skills & Competencies

• Communicate clearly and effectively in English (spoken and written).
• Communicate effectively in Arabic (desirable).
• Demonstrated ability to work as part of an inter-professional team (desirable).
• Organizational and administrative skills to use the electronic medical record platform for clinical documentation (desirable).

Additional Information

• Be willing to work across departments when necessary.