Registered Nurse - OB/Gyne and Pediatric IP

at  NMC Healthcare

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.
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- 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 neededFacilitate the process of safe patient`s admission and discharge
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Provides appropriate health education to patients and their family.

• Have an appropriate license to work as a nurse in the relevant regulatory health authority (DoH, DHA) with all the qualification and experience this mandates.
• Manage their own professional revalidation
• Have basic life support qualification (within past 24 months)
• Have an active interest in the clinical field in which they are employed
• Be willing to work across departments when necessary
• Be able to communicate clearly and effectively in English (spoken and written

RESPONSIBILITIES SPECIFIC TO IP WARD:

• Provides surgical care (pre and post-operative), postnatal care, breastfeeding advice and support to women and their babies.
• Performs initial assessment and reassessment of patients in the department including neonates, pediatric and adult patients
• Demonstrates knowledge of electronic fetal monitoring using CTG and central monitoring system.
• Is able to provide a high standard of care to all Specialties that falls within the hospitals scope of practice.
• Initiates Intravenous Therapy as per Doctors orders
• Demonstrates skills in routine care for newborns, rooming in with mothers.
• Participates in emergency code drills and performs when necessary
• Acts as Team Leader in the absence of the Charge Nurse and is able to delegate tasks as per skills and scope of practice.
• Demonstrates knowledge in caring for patients admitted for induction of labor.
• Monitors early progress of laboring mothers before transferring to labor ward, interprets fetal heart rate and notifies Physician when appropriate for progress or problems.
• Performs post-partum care of mother, performs fundal massage and monitors vital signs, blood loss as needed and promotes newborn/parent bonding
• Performs the Appropriateness review of medications before preparing and administering medications as required.
• Responsible for coordinating with the Obstetrician, Neonatologist / Pediatrician and other allied workers to provide comprehensive care to patients.Prepares mothers for cesarean sections and provides pre-operative and post-operative care to all patients requiring surgical procedures
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• Actively promotes and assists mothers with breastfeeding, basic newborn care and patient education.

• Has skills and knowledge on collection of specimens, bloods for diagnostic testing and critical values
• Knowledge on ordering blood products and monitors patients when receiving blood products.
• Knowledge of Obstetric emergencies, nursing management and care as per protocols.
  Provides appropriate health education to patients and their family.

RESPONSIBILITIES SPECIFIC TO IP WARD:

• Provides surgical care (pre and post-operative), postnatal care, breastfeeding advice and support to women and their babies.
• Performs initial assessment and reassessment of patients in the department including neonates, pediatric and adult patients
• Demonstrates knowledge of electronic fetal monitoring using CTG and central monitoring system.
• Is able to provide a high standard of care to all Specialties that falls within the hospitals scope of practice.
• Initiates Intravenous Therapy as per Doctors orders
• Demonstrates skills in routine care for newborns, rooming in with mothers.
• Participates in emergency code drills and performs when necessary
• Acts as Team Leader in the absence of the Charge Nurse and is able to delegate tasks as per skills and scope of practice.
• Demonstrates knowledge in caring for patients admitted for induction of labor.
• Monitors early progress of laboring mothers before transferring to labor ward, interprets fetal heart rate and notifies Physician when appropriate for progress or problems.
• Performs post-partum care of mother, performs fundal massage and monitors vital signs, blood loss as needed and promotes newborn/parent bonding
• Performs the Appropriateness review of medications before preparing and administering medications as required.
• Responsible for coordinating with the Obstetrician, Neonatologist / Pediatrician and other allied workers to provide comprehensive care to patients.Prepares mothers for cesarean sections and provides pre-operative and post-operative care to all patients requiring surgical procedures
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• Actively promotes and assists mothers with breastfeeding, basic newborn care and patient education.

• Has skills and knowledge on collection of specimens, bloods for diagnostic testing and critical values
• Knowledge on ordering blood products and monitors patients when receiving blood products.
• Knowledge of Obstetric emergencies, nursing management and care as per protocols.

Provides appropriate health education to patients and their family.

• Have an appropriate license to work as a nurse in the relevant regulatory health authority (DoH, DHA) with all the qualification and experience this mandates.
• Manage their own professional revalidation
• Have basic life support qualification (within past 24 months)
• Have an active interest in the clinical field in which they are employed
• Be willing to work across departments when necessary
• Be able to communicate clearly and effectively in English (spoken and written)

DESIRABLE: The post holder should have :

• Evidenced experience/expertise in the clinical field in which they are employed
• Evidenced ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Organizational and administrative skills with which to use the HIS platform for clinical documentation
• Be able to communicate effectively in Arabic