Staff Nurse - Pediatric Inpatient Ward TP

Role Overview

Staff Nurse - Pediatric Inpatient Ward TP at American Hospital Dubai. The role provides direct and indirect age-specific care for assigned patients in the Pediatric Ward.

Role Purpose

Deliver nursing assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, evaluation, and coordination of care for pediatric patients across the healthcare continuum involving families. Manage acute and chronic cases with age-appropriate care delivery.

Key Responsibilities

Patient Care Delivery

• Provide age-specific patient-centered care utilizing the nursing process.
• Perform patient assessment using appropriate, problem-focused, and age-specific assessment techniques.
• Perform continual critical care assessment of patient and family's physical and psychological needs.
• Recognize subtle cues to anticipate potential problems.
• Involve the patient, significant others, and health care providers in the plan of care when appropriate.

Care Planning & Coordination

• Coordinate and plan critical care/clinical pathway, and prioritize care based on individual needs.
• Revise the care plan as necessary.
• Initiate appropriate transfer plans.
• Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team to provide patient care.

Clinical & Medication Management

• Administer and monitor medications' desirable and undesirable effects and intervene accordingly.
• Perform safe handling and administering of narcotics/Controlled and Semi-Controlled Drugs and documentation as directed by policies and procedures.
• Ensure completion of unit competencies, including pain management and utilization of Emergency department devices.

Safety & Infection Control

• Maintain a safe environment for patients and staff.
• Apply safety measures related to pediatric patient care, mainly patient falls and safe environment.
• Abide strictly to the procedure of pediatric security.
• Implement and monitor infection control measures.
• Initiate basic life support during codes until the code team arrives and takes over the resuscitation process.

Documentation & Record-Keeping

• Document all relevant data in the medical record according to hospital/departmental standards.
• Document patient and family education.

Patient & Family Education

• Assess patient and family readiness and ability to learn.
• Identify learning needs and objectives.
• Develop and implement the teaching plan utilizing the patient education manual.
• Lead and encourage a multidisciplinary approach to patient discharge.
• Evaluate the teaching-learning process.
• Provide support to family/caregivers of pediatric patients as needed.

Unit-Specific Care

• Encourage the use of the playroom.
• Adhere to the required assessment and nursing therapeutic skills according to the pediatric manual.
• Ensure patients are provided with appropriate nutrition.
• Deliver pre-operative and post-operative patient care.
• Operate all unit-required equipment safely.

Quality & Compliance

• Assume responsibility for meeting Joint Commission International Accreditation (JCIA) required mandatory education, including fire, safety, infection control and others.
• Ensure clinical competencies as well as life support courses are up to date.
• Complete yearly the critical care nursing competencies (basic).
• Maintain clinical and professional competency based on the latest research and established standards of practice.
• Participate in unit-based Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) activities, including data collection, CQI teams, incident reporting, customer complaint reporting, and medication error reporting.
• Participate in quality initiatives and quality improvement activities to improve the unit standards of quality provided.
• Abide by the standards of care and practice of the hospital and the nursing department.

Operational Support

• Ensure availability and maintenance of supplies and equipment needed for the unit and patient care.
• Perform clerical duties when needed.
• Participate in staff meetings and unit committees/projects.
• Participate in developing and achieving unit goals.
• Participate in ongoing educational activities.
• Perform additional duties when required.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing with minimum three (3) years full-time course duration, OR Degree in Nursing with minimum two (2) years course duration and Registration as a Registered Nurse from Canada, USA, UK, Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand, or Australia.
• Minimum two (2) years of recent post-graduate experience in a Pediatrics Ward.
• Knowledge of and ability to render care and services based on age, appropriateness, and developmental needs of patients.
• Skills in the assessment of patient and family's physical and psychological needs.
• Skills in coordination and planning of care and prioritizing care based on individual needs.

Skills & Competencies

• Age-specific pediatric care delivery.
• Patient and family assessment techniques.
• Critical care assessment and monitoring.
• Multi-disciplinary collaboration.
• Patient and family education.
• Medication administration and monitoring.
• Infection control implementation.
• Basic life support and emergency response.
• Quality improvement and incident reporting.
• Safe equipment operation.

Additional Information

• Must hold a valid License/Registration to practice in their home country and/or country of last employment where applicable.
• Must hold a minimum of a valid Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification or others according to the scope of practice.
• UAE nationals: Graduates of UAE or non-UAE universities are exempted from the experience and clinical training requirements for the applied title. UAE nationals must submit a copy of their birth certificate and the mother's family book.
• Non-UAE national graduates from UAE universities: Required to successfully complete six (6) months of clinical training post-graduation in an APS health facility, except for Registered and Assistant Nurse titles.