Registered Nurse - Dialysis

at  NMC Healthcare

Computer literate

• Master’s in nursing /Bachelor of Science in nursing / Diploma in nursing.
• Current license from home country, DHA license to practice in Dubai.
• Minimum 2 years of experience, in the relevant area.
• BLS provider, ACLS preferable.
• Spoken Arabic language preferable

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Perform his / her duties as per NMC guiding principles and model of care, DHA regulation and other regulatory authorities, accreditation body.
• Provides care in a non-judgmental, non-discriminatory manner that is sensitive to the adult or elderly patient’s and family’s diversity, preserving their autonomy, dignity and rights.
• Provide culturally appropriate patient focused nursing care.
• Applies the international patient safety goals throughout the patient journey and care process.
• Respects patient and applies patient family rights throughout the patient care, with empathy, emotional stability.
• Educates and informs patient on the care process and other relevant information within her scope of practice.
• Assessment, implementation and coordination of complex care and interventions.
• Providing comfort and preventing suffering.
• Collaborating with patients, their families, their healthcare providers, and healthcare professionals.
• Acting as patient advocates
• Practice continuous monitoring and nursing vigilance
• Consults and coordinates with health care team members develops plan of care that is individualized for the adult and elderly patients reflecting collaboration with other members of the healthcare team.
• Responds to life-saving situations based upon nursing standards and protocol.
• Performs appropriate treatments as ordered by physician in an accurate and timely manner.
• Performs therapeutic nursing interventions as established by individualized plan of care for the adult or elderly patient, pediatric (if applicable) and his/her family, which may include meeting nutritional needs, elimination needs, psychological needs, spiritual needs, hygienic needs.
• Coordinates with doctors to keep patients and their family members updated on test results or treatment recommendations.
• Administers medication as per rights, adheres to medication management process, indent, labeling, storage, appropriateness review.
• Review patient diet order, requests for diet as per policy and ensure that patient nutritional needs are met.
• Adhere to principles of infection control for infectious cases, documents in notification form, occupational injury form, infection control log and other relevant documentation as per policy.
• Assure proper consent for patients when applicable as per hospital policy.
• Provides individualized patient/family education customized to the adult or elderly patient and his/her family.
• Documents patient assessment findings, physical/psychosocial responses to nursing intervention and progress towards problem resolution.
• Documents relevantly, legibly and precisely as per the documentation policy both in HIS and manual records as appropriate.
• Initiates Code Blue, emergency resuscitation measures according to hospital protocol and be a part of code blue Team for the hospital.
• Reports patient condition, handing over of information, to appropriate personnel during each shift.
• Collaborates with all disciplines, support services and others concerned to deliver the best possible care for the patient.
• Addresses / escalates concerns to the immediate supervisor and ensures that it is resolved.
• Utilizes resources appropriately and efficiently ensuring cost effectiveness.
• Maintains inventory – drugs, including controlled, semi controlled, high concentrated electrolytes and High alert medications, consumables and supplies, participate in product evaluation whenever necessary.
• Delivers safe patient care consistently, follows the infection control practices consistently.
• By managing their time, effectively multitask and prioritize their responsibilities have a better time completing their duties in a timely manner and maintain confidence in critical situations.
• Applies necessary safety checks, functionality, checks, maintenance checks, precautions while operating medical equipment, including crash cart as per hospital policy.
• Reports all significant relevant information professionally , timely and appropriately including near miss, incidents, issues and concerning patient care and patient safety.
• Demonstrates updated knowledge, reflective practice, critical thinking at all times for safe and high quality patient care.
• Acts & practice consistently activities that enhances Organization reputation.
• Updates self professionally, meet the training requirements, competencies, maintain self-performance log as expected, participate in professional development activities.
• Orients new staff, evaluates peer group and allied staff as per the hospital policy.
• Drives change, innovation, creativity, strategically think, as appropriate to scope of practice.
• Demonstrates ethical and professional behavior with supervisors, colleagues, health care providers, patients and family.
• Demonstrates interest and actively participate in all quality improvement activities as expected by the organization such as KPI, QI projects, Audits, Policies and procedures, reporting incidents and near miss, etc.
• Assess constantly risk and mitigates them, reports as per the hospital policy.
• Contributes to maintain the safety of the patient and environment by identifying risks, hazards, potential harm as per the safety policy of the hospital.
• Extend support to all the processes, directly and indirectly towards patient care, patient satisfaction, organizational requirement such as patient feedback, patient complaints, statistical data, maintaining reports and records.
• Readily accepts any other responsibilities assigned by immediate supervisor.

In addition to general nursing care, responsibilities of Dialysis Nurses include (but are not limited to):

• Primes dialyzer and bloodlines.
• Records patients’ medical information and vital signs
• Readies dialysis equipment.
• Oversees the dialysis treatment from start to finish.
• Demonstrates the ability to remove femoral sheaths & administer medications, including thrombolytics.
• Cleans and dresses permanent and temporary catheters.
• Monitors patient and adjusts specialized equipment used on patients and interprets and records information.
• Identifies irregular dialysis reactions and notifies appropriate medical team members.
• Teaches patients and significant others how to manage their illness, by explaining: post-treatment home care needs, diet/nutrition/exercise programs, self-administration of medication, if needed.

Provides pre- and post-procedure care to patients within the Hemodialysis Unit.
-
- Skill
- Planning & organizing skill.
- Ability to manage and evaluate staff reporting to, peer group.
- Strong written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
- Proficiency in multi-tasking and handling stressful situations.
- Talent for negotiation and collaboration.
- Strong ability to work as a team.
- Time management Cognitive skills as per the position.
Computer literate

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Perform his / her duties as per NMC guiding principles and model of care, DHA regulation and other regulatory authorities, accreditation body.
• Provides care in a non-judgmental, non-discriminatory manner that is sensitive to the adult or elderly patient’s and family’s diversity, preserving their autonomy, dignity and rights.
• Provide culturally appropriate patient focused nursing care.
• Applies the international patient safety goals throughout the patient journey and care process.
• Respects patient and applies patient family rights throughout the patient care, with empathy, emotional stability.
• Educates and informs patient on the care process and other relevant information within her scope of practice.
• Assessment, implementation and coordination of complex care and interventions.
• Providing comfort and preventing suffering.
• Collaborating with patients, their families, their healthcare providers, and healthcare professionals.
• Acting as patient advocates
• Practice continuous monitoring and nursing vigilance
• Consults and coordinates with health care team members develops plan of care that is individualized for the adult and elderly patients reflecting collaboration with other members of the healthcare team.
• Responds to life-saving situations based upon nursing standards and protocol.
• Performs appropriate treatments as ordered by physician in an accurate and timely manner.
• Performs therapeutic nursing interventions as established by individualized plan of care for the adult or elderly patient, pediatric (if applicable) and his/her family, which may include meeting nutritional needs, elimination needs, psychological needs, spiritual needs, hygienic needs.
• Coordinates with doctors to keep patients and their family members updated on test results or treatment recommendations.
• Administers medication as per rights, adheres to medication management process, indent, labeling, storage, appropriateness review.
• Review patient diet order, requests for diet as per policy and ensure that patient nutritional needs are met.
• Adhere to principles of infection control for infectious cases, documents in notification form, occupational injury form, infection control log and other relevant documentation as per policy.
• Assure proper consent for patients when applicable as per hospital policy.
• Provides individualized patient/family education customized to the adult or elderly patient and his/her family.
• Documents patient assessment findings, physical/psychosocial responses to nursing intervention and progress towards problem resolution.
• Documents relevantly, legibly and precisely as per the documentation policy both in HIS and manual records as appropriate.
• Initiates Code Blue, emergency resuscitation measures according to hospital protocol and be a part of code blue Team for the hospital.
• Reports patient condition, handing over of information, to appropriate personnel during each shift.
• Collaborates with all disciplines, support services and others concerned to deliver the best possible care for the patient.
• Addresses / escalates concerns to the immediate supervisor and ensures that it is resolved.
• Utilizes resources appropriately and efficiently ensuring cost effectiveness.
• Maintains inventory – drugs, including controlled, semi controlled, high concentrated electrolytes and High alert medications, consumables and supplies, participate in product evaluation whenever necessary.
• Delivers safe patient care consistently, follows the infection control practices consistently.
• By managing their time, effectively multitask and prioritize their responsibilities have a better time completing their duties in a timely manner and maintain confidence in critical situations.
• Applies necessary safety checks, functionality, checks, maintenance checks, precautions while operating medical equipment, including crash cart as per hospital policy.
• Reports all significant relevant information professionally , timely and appropriately including near miss, incidents, issues and concerning patient care and patient safety.
• Demonstrates updated knowledge, reflective practice, critical thinking at all times for safe and high quality patient care.
• Acts & practice consistently activities that enhances Organization reputation.
• Updates self professionally, meet the training requirements, competencies, maintain self-performance log as expected, participate in professional development activities.
• Orients new staff, evaluates peer group and allied staff as per the hospital policy.
• Drives change, innovation, creativity, strategically think, as appropriate to scope of practice.
• Demonstrates ethical and professional behavior with supervisors, colleagues, health care providers, patients and family.
• Demonstrates interest and actively participate in all quality improvement activities as expected by the organization such as KPI, QI projects, Audits, Policies and procedures, reporting incidents and near miss, etc.
• Assess constantly risk and mitigates them, reports as per the hospital policy.
• Contributes to maintain the safety of the patient and environment by identifying risks, hazards, potential harm as per the safety policy of the hospital.
• Extend support to all the processes, directly and indirectly towards patient care, patient satisfaction, organizational requirement such as patient feedback, patient complaints, statistical data, maintaining reports and records.
• Readily accepts any other responsibilities assigned by immediate supervisor.

In addition to general nursing care, responsibilities of Dialysis Nurses include (but are not limited to):

• Primes dialyzer and bloodlines.
• Records patients’ medical information and vital signs
• Readies dialysis equipment.
• Oversees the dialysis treatment from start to finish.
• Demonstrates the ability to remove femoral sheaths & administer medications, including thrombolytics.
• Cleans and dresses permanent and temporary catheters.
• Monitors patient and adjusts specialized equipment used on patients and interprets and records information.
• Identifies irregular dialysis reactions and notifies appropriate medical team members.
• Teaches patients and significant others how to manage their illness, by explaining: post-treatment home care needs, diet/nutrition/exercise programs, self-administration of medication, if needed.

Provides pre- and post-procedure care to patients within the Hemodialysis Unit.
-
- Skill
- Planning & organizing skill.
- Ability to manage and evaluate staff reporting to, peer group.
- Strong written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
- Proficiency in multi-tasking and handling stressful situations.
- Talent for negotiation and collaboration.
- Strong ability to work as a team.
- Time management Cognitive skills as per the position.

Computer literate

• Master’s in nursing /Bachelor of Science in nursing / Diploma in nursing.
• Current license from home country, DHA license to practice in Dubai.
• Minimum 2 years of experience, in the relevant area.
• BLS provider, ACLS preferable.
• Spoken Arabic language preferable.