Registered Nurse - PICU NMC healthcare LLC

Job Description

These must be upheld in accordance with the UAE Code of Conduct, Scope of Practice and licensure as per the regulator. 
The post holder will:
•    Always speak up if safety is a concern
•    Treat all patients with kindness, respect and compassion
•    Recognize and work within the limits of their own competence
•    Take responsibility for their own actions 
•    Communicate effectively with colleagues to ensure patients receives the safest, most effective care possible
•    Perform additional duties when required

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for providing and coordinating patient care, educating patients and the public about various health conditions, and providing 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. They will work with a team of physicians and other health care specialists or allied health in various settings.
• 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.
• Record vital signs, recognize, address and escalate all abnormalities.
• Maintain and update technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice.
• Employ strategies to promote patients’ health and a safe environment.
• Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory examinations.
• Perform essential life support as per regulatory requirements and scope such as but not limited to Basic Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support and Advanced Cardiac Life Support etc.
• 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.
• Facilitate the process of safe patient`s admission, transfer and discharge.
• Competent with all the mandatory and unit specific competencies supported and assigned on Elsevier platform to ensure adherence to evidence Based practices.
• Demonstrate proficiency in emergency procedures, equipment, and protocols relevant to the department.
• Participate in ongoing programs and certification to support professional growth and maintain clinical competency.
• Comply with unit Scope of service
• Ensures all equipment is maintained in good working order, reporting any fault to Nurse Manager/Engineering

General Duties and responsibility:

• Consult and coordinates with health care team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care plans.
• Conducts pre and post – operative education as necessary.
• Serves as the communication liaison to family and members of the operating team.
• Ensures that operating on correct patient and the correct procedure id being performed.
• Responds to life-saving situations based upon nursing standards and protocol.
• Records all care information concisely, accurately, and completely, in a timely manner, in the appropriate format and on the appropriate forms.
• Initiate corrective action whenever equipment shows adverse malfunction.
• Perform other position –related duties as assigned depending on assignment setting.

Scrub Duties:

• Set up the theatre by assembling of equipment’s and supplies based on patient surgical need, surgeon’s preference, and policies of the hospital.
• Demonstrates knowledge of aseptic technique.
• Scrub for surgery according to international standards and hospital hand washing policy.
• Set up the back table and mayo trolley by maintain sterile field including sponge, needles and instrument counts and maintains a clean and orderly operative field for the surgeon to work on.
• Assist the surgical team in gowning and gloving.
• Prepare the surgical site with antiseptic solution.
• Drape the patient with the help of the surgeon.
• Enable setting up of necessary equipment.
• Execute time out policy with team members.
• Correctly identifies patient, procedure, and surgical site.
• Maintain sterility throughout the surgery.
• Coordinate with the circulating nurse for the initial and final counting of sponges, sutures, needles, and instruments before closure. If there is a missing item, notifies the surgeon and nursing in-charge immediately.
• Maintain instruments by proper handling, washing, disinfecting. Checking and packing in the designed sets for CSSD.

Circulatory Duties:

• Ensure proper supplies, equipment’s and instrumentation’s are available for surgical procedures.
• Receive the patient, checks that all documents are complete and checks all parameters as per preoperative checklist.
• Validate patient’s name, surgical procedure, and surgeon before shifting to respective theatre.
• Position the patient according to surgical procedure.
• Assist the scrub nurse in preparing necessary equipment, instruments and consumables.
• Executes time out policy with surgical team members.
• Together with the scrub nurse, count instruments, gauze, mops, blades and needles and documents in the white board as well as in the preoperative nursing record.
• Continuously supervise aseptic technique throughout the procedure.
• Accept and consciously applies emergency measures when needed. Demonstrate competence in Cardio-pulmonary Resuscitation Technique.
• Stay with the patient during extubation until the patient is shifted to the recovery room.
• Complete all the documentation needed.
• Demonstrates the following:
• Document in the patient file.
• Complete the OT surgical checklist (Time-Out).
• Assist in theatre cleaning following surgery, including proper disposal of used supplies and sharps, cleaning of equipment’s and setting up theatre for the next surgery.
• Collect and replaces consumables to Operation Theatre store before and after surgery.