
Registered Nurse NMC Specialty Hospital Abu Dhabi
Full time @NMC Healthcare posted 1 month ago in Healthcare Shortlist Email JobJob Detail
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Job ID 30956
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Career Level Intermediate
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Experience 2 Years
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Gender Male Female
Job Description
NMC Healthcare presently has a job opening for suitably qualified and experienced candidate for position of a Registered Nurse in Labour & Delivery at NMC Specialty Hospital, Abu Dhabi, AE. This is an Intermediate level full time role. For this position salary ranges from 6000-13000 AED, which may be slightly negotiable during the interview process.
Responsibilities of Registered Nurse
- 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 work with a team of physicians and other health care specialists or allied health in various settings.
- Assessment and Evaluation
- Meet the essential mental and physical health needs of people of all ages and conditions, including those under end-of-life care.
- Perform systematic patient assessment and collect pertinent data about the patient’s health or situation.
- Diagnosis
- Understand and analyze the assessment information and data
- Determine actual and potential nursing diagnoses, problems, and issues.
- Outcomes Identification
- Define the predicted and expected outcomes of the patient’s planned care.
- Create and evaluate patient care plans with the medical team.
- . Planning
- 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.
- Intervention & Implementation
- Develop a plan of care for each patient.
- Assess and manage all patient populations with appropriate intervention.
- Insert, manage, and discontinue intravenous catheters and intraurethral catheters.
- Record vital signs, recognize, and address abnormalities.
- Perform essential life support (BLS)
- Support patient with personal care activities such as feeding, dressing, and performing hygiene.
- 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.
What you will do more
- Assist in medical procedures invasive or non-invasive as needed.
- Collect blood samples and other body fluids specimens for laboratory work.
- Operate and monitor medical equipment.
- Facilitate the process of safe patient`s admission and discharge.
- Transfer patient safely into and out of bed and chair
- Provide patient care while maintaining the basic principle of medicine of “do no harm.
- Record details and symptoms of the patient medical history and current health
- Promote patient optimum health and wellbeing.
- Identify patients’ care requirements and implement the identified and expected patient`s plan.
- Participate in decision-making concerning patients’ care as well as coordinate their care with other healthcare professionals and facilities.
- Maintain a safe environment using quality assurance and risk management strategies.
- Provide a safe environment for patients and staff, including implementing infection control procedures.
- Participate in continuous healthcare related quality improvement activities.
- Reflect on practice outcomes and make changes to practice when appropriate.
- Evaluates patient’s treatment outcome.
- Engage in proper documentation relevant to patient’s care.
- Plans, implements and evaluates nursing care given to assigned patients in an effective and organized manner.
- Performs initial assessment of the patient
- Monitor progress of laboring mothers, interpret fetal heart monitor and notify physician when appropriate for progress or problems.
- Assist mother with breathing exercises, pain management techniques and administer pain medication as ordered.
- Predominant role in preparation, administration and documentation of medications
- Prepare birthing room for delivery using strict sterile technique.
- Assist anesthetist with the administration of spinal or epidural anesthetic and thereafter maintaining proper documentation of the same.
- Perform post-partum care and provide health education to mother: check lochia, episiotomy and fundus, provide instruction in child care, breast feedings and self-care to mother, monitor vital signs per policy, and report problems to physician.
Other Responsibilities
- Maintains and updates all relevant patient documentations/medical records as per hospital policy and procedures.
- Maintains confidentiality of patient’s records.
- Responsible for patient care programs like MAMA CARE, exclusive breast feeding etc.
- Collect and send documents required for the birth notification to the medical record section.
- Maintenance of labor and delivery register.
- Participates in the rehabilitation and discharge planning of patients/families.
- Assists with transfer of patients within the health care facilities and serves as transport nurse for patients during ambulance transport.
- Encourages an economical approach to the utilization of equipment’s and supplies while assisting the Charge nurse in maintaining an appropriate ward stock.
- Follows the reporting mechanisms/ chain of command in the Nursing Department. Ensuring patient care issues are correctly and quickly reported.
- Takes responsibility for professional clinical practice and is actively involved in updating and continuing education.
- Competent with cardio-pulmonary resuscitation technique.
- Responsible for checking of crash carts and emergency equipment’s as per hospital policy.
- Responsible for maintaining inventory checklist of medications including high alert medications and narcotics as per hospital policy.
- Responsible for maintaining inventory checklist of Hazmat items including MSDS as per hospital policy.
- Ensures preventative and ongoing maintenance of equipment is carried out, reporting all failures or deficiencies through appropriate department head.
- Takes responsibility for the ward / unit in the absence of the Charge nurse as assigned by the nursing administration.
- Demonstrates sound knowledge and participates in fire safety, patient safety, infection control and the other necessary precautions as per hospital policy.
- Demonstrates strict adherence to all hospital policies and procedures.
- Carries out other duties as instructed by the Nursing Shift Supervisor / Nursing Director.
- Responsible to monitor their own health and immediately report any issues of concern to their HOD.
Requirements for Role of Registered Nurse
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
- Â Current license in country of origin and with DOH license to practice in Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Minimum 2 years nursing experience in labour ward.
- Â BLS provider.
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