Registered Nurse

Role Overview

Registered Nurse position at NMC Healthcare. The post holder will 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 comprehensive patient care, assess and monitor patient needs, implement and evaluate treatment plans, and coordinate care in collaboration with physicians and interprofessional health care teams across various settings.

Key Responsibilities

Patient Assessment & Care 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.
• Assess and identify patients' needs and implement and monitor the patient's medical plan and treatment.

Clinical Interventions & Monitoring

• 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.
• 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.
• Prepare patients for medical examination and treatment.
• Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory examinations.

Patient Education & Support

• Provide and coordinate patient care, educate patients and the public about various health conditions, and provide advice and emotional support to patients and their family members.
• Employ strategies to promote patients' health and a safe environment.

Team & Professional Practice

• Work with a team of physicians and other health care specialists or allied health in various settings.
• Maintain and update technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice.
• Manage their own professional re-licensure.

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 the qualifications and experience these mandates.
• Valid American Heart Association Basic Life Support Provider card.

Skills & Competencies

• Clear and effective communication in English (spoken and written).
• Organizational and administrative skills with which to use the electronic medical record platform for clinical documentation.
• Ability to work as part of an inter-professional team.
• Effective communication in Arabic (desirable).

Additional Information

• Be willing to work across departments when necessary.