Registered Nurse - NICU

at  NMC Healthcare

The post holder will always put the health, wellbeing and safety of their patient first
as they assess, plan, implement and evaluate their needs.
To support and demonstrate our NMC Nursing Mission, Vision and Values:
Our Nursing Vision: At NMC Healthcare, we are committed to providing clinical
excellence through safe, compassionate and individualized care to every patient,
every time.
Our Nursing Mission: To exemplify clinical excellence, every NMC nurse will seek

to:

• Do the right thing
• Be the patient’s advocate
• Be open and transparent
• Deliver safe, compassionate care
• Recognize the uniqueness of each patient
• Contribute to an outstanding patient’s experience
• Engage with and contribute to, a learning culture
• Lead and influence changes in healthcare

Our Nursing Values: We will achieve this through our core values:

• Safety
• Excellence
• Ethics
• Trust
• Collaboration

The post holder will work collaboratively with other team members, will uphold and
live the NMC Nursing Strategy in order to provide safe and outstanding care to their
patient, relatives, friends and significant others all the time, every time.
These must be upheld in accordance with the UAE NMC Code of Conduct and

Scope of Practice (MoHaP). 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

Education and Training:

• Ensure relevant training and competency is undertaken to deliver care

safely

• Maintain up-to-date mandatory training requirements
• Follow the clinical pathways set out by the NMC Elseviar platform
• Follow and comply with the NMC Competency Framework, relevant to

their role profile

• Be willing to learn new clinical skills
• Support and supervise pre-registration and new nurses and Health Care

Workers when required

• Participate in teaching, mentorship and preceptorship programmes when

required

• Participate in clinical supervision
• Participate in Performance Improvement Plans when required
• Share knowledge and skill with others, in order to improve patient care

and service

• Ensure they are skilled, trained and competent before using any medical

device.

• Involve patients in their own healthcare and recovery through education,

awareness and positive reinforcement.
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Quality Assurance:

• Speak up, if something isn’t right.
• Maintain awareness of and comply with, the NMC Policies and

Procedures

• Participate in all activities related to DoH/DHA/MoH/NMC Quality

Improvement when required

• Understand the Regulatory standards and which of them apply to their

daily working practice

• Continually seek to improve the service of and care delivery for patients

and their families

• Report and notify all untoward/serious and near miss incidents to your

direct line manager and then through the Sapphire/incident reporting

system in a timely way

• Cooperate with all investigations and audits when requested to do so in

the interest of developing a learning culture and seeking to improve care

and service

• Promote customer service based on NMC patient satisfaction results.
• Share great practice

Professional:

• Uphold the reputation of the nursing profession at all times
• Act as a positive role model for all nursing and support staff
• Must have insight of own behaviour on others
• Be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and

evaluation of programmes of care under the indirect supervision of

senior nursing staff.

• Comply will all aspects of the UAE NMC Code of Conduct
• Refuse to undertake any task for which he/she has not been trained and

is not competent to undertake.

• Always seek expert help when the demand of care, service or skill, falls

outside their capabilities.

• Only delegate tasks to those team members who are trained, skilled and

competent to undertake such tasks

• Assist in updating clinical policies and guidelines in line with skill and

experience

• Assist, engage with and contribute to the professional development of

colleagues

• Ensure revalidation is managed in a timely manner
• Maintain patient confidentiality at all times
• Ensure timely expert advice or senior nursing support is sought when a

patient’s condition fails to respond to prescribed treatment

• Manage a deteriorating patient without delay, using the EWS 2

escalation process and emergency algorithm.
Equality and Diversity: The post holder is required to promote equality in
service delivery and employment practices. All employees must comply with
NMC equality and diversity policies, procedures and initiatives
Infection Prevention and Control: IPC is everyone’s responsibility. All staff are
required to read and implement the NMC IPC Policy and Strategy in an effort to
maintain the highest possible standards of cleanliness at all times, thus reducing
the risk of infection in patients, staff and visitors. The strictest hand hygiene, 5
moments of hand hygiene, bare below the elbows and environmental care, will
be expected of all staff, including the post holder, at all times.
Safeguarding Children: NMC is committed to safeguarding and promoting the
welfare of all children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees to share
this commitment. Please refer to Federal Law No. 3 of 2016 (Wadeema’s Law)
https://www.khda.gov.ae/CMS/WebParts/TextEditor/Documents/ChildrenLawE
nglish.pdf

Registered Nurse will:

• 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 and collect pertinent data about

the patient’s health or situation.

• Understand and analyze 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 medical team
• Record vital signs, recognize and address abnormalities
• Define the care plan in collaboration with the healthcare team, patients,

and families.

• Maintain and update the technical and clinical skills related to nursing

practice

• Employ strategies to promote patients’ health and a safe environment.
• Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory exams
• Perform essential life support (BLS
• 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 and discharge.

their role profile

• Be willing to learn new clinical skills
• Support and supervise pre-registration and new nurses and Health Car

competent to undertake such tasks

• Assist in updating clinical policies and guidelines in line with skill an

instructions, specific responsibilities

• Be familiar with emergency and evacuation procedures.
• Notifying OSH Hazards, incidents, Near misses and issues an