Registered Nurse - OT

Role Overview

Registered Nurse - OT at NMC Healthcare. The post holder will always work within the scope of practice, putting the health, wellbeing and safety of their patient first as they assess, plan, implement and evaluate their needs.

Role Purpose

To provide and coordinate comprehensive patient care, assess and monitor patient needs, implement evidence-based treatment plans, and work collaboratively with physicians and allied health professionals to deliver safe, compassionate nursing care across various clinical settings.

Key Responsibilities

Patient Assessment & Planning

• 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.
• 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.

Clinical Care & Monitoring

• Assess and identify patients' needs and implement and monitor the patient's medical plan and treatment.
• Record vital signs, recognize, address and escalate all abnormalities.
• Prepare patients for medical examination and treatment.
• Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory examinations.
• Maintain and update technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice.

Treatment & Intervention

• 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, Paediatric Advanced Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Neonatal Resuscitation etc.

Patient & Family Support

• Educate patients and the public about various health conditions.
• Provide advice and emotional support to patients and their family members.
• Employ strategies to promote patients' health and a safe environment.

Coordination & Safety

• Work with a team of physicians and other health care specialists or allied health in various settings.
• Facilitate the process of safe patient admission, transfer and discharge.
• 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 mandate.
• Manage their own professional re-licensure.
• Hold a valid American Heart Association Basic Life Support Provider card.