Senior Staff Nurse in Pediatric Ward at SSMC assumes responsibility for the daily clinical operation of the clinical area. Functions as a primary source for assistance and guidance on clinical issues to Nursing Staff. Coordinates the day-to- day running of the Pediatrics Ward, ensuring that patients are discharged on time and coordinating patient admissions from other departments under the guidance of the line manager. This is a Senior level full time job. And salary can range between 10000-20000 AED/month.

Responsibilities of Senior Staff Nurse

• Provides age-specific patient-centered care utilizing the nursing process:
• Performs patient assessment using appropriate, problem-focused, and age- specific assessment techniques.
• Performs continual critical care assessment of patient, and family’s physical and psychological needs.
• Involves the patient, significant others, and health care providers in the plan of care when appropriate.
• Collaborates with a multi-disciplinary team to provide patient care.
• Coordinates and plans critical care/clinical pathway, and prioritizes care, based on individual needs. Revise the care plan as necessary.
• Initiates appropriate transfer plan.
• Recognizes subtle cues to anticipate potential problems.
• Documents all relevant data in the medical record according to hospital/departmental standards.
• Ensures availability and maintenance of supplies and equipment needed for the unit and patient care.
• Performs clerical duties when needed.
• Assumes responsibility for meeting Joint Commission International Accreditation (JCIA) required mandatory education, (e.g. fire, safety, infection control, and others.)
• Participates in staff meetings and unit committees/projects.
• Participates in developing and achieving unit goals.
• Performs additional duties when required.
• Maintains a safe environment for patients and staff.
• Performs safe handling, drawing, and administrating Narcotic/Controlled Drugs and documentation as directed by policies and procedures.
• Ensures completion of unit competencies (e.g. pain management, and utilization of Emergency department devices).
• Maintains clinical and professional competency based on the latest research and established standards of practice.
• Completes yearly, the critical care nursing competencies (basic).
• Participates in unit-based Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) activities (data collection, CQI teams, incident reporting, customer complaint reporting, medication error reporting etc.)
• Participates in ongoing educational activities.
• Maintains mandatory educational requirements.

Operational Management

• Coordinates the provision of safe, efficient, and economical 24-hour nursing care in line with established standards of care.
• Supervises, demonstrates, assists and teaches staff in improving, maintaining and obtaining new clinical skills.
• Renders and supervises care services based on age appropriateness and developmental needs of patients.
• Assists and develops the formation of measurable goals for the unit.
• Creates and supports an environment which fosters teamwork, cooperation, and respect for cultural diversity.
• Assists the Manager in all scheduling, policy writing and other projects as defined.
• Monitors attendance of staff to annual mandatory in-services.
• Assists manager with completion of departmental and unit-specific competencies.
• Assures 100% of new staff completes a planned departmental orientation within 120 days.
• Promotes development and use of care planning and/or other means of planning care.
• Maintains accountability for budgeting/financial management and optimal use of resources in the unit.
• Supports, enforces, and interprets institutional and departmental policies and procedures to staff.
• Promotes professional and clinical growth of self and staff.
• Participates in hospital-wide and nursing committees.
• Integrates evidence-based research/practice into clinical and management processes in the unit, as indicated.
• Promotes physician satisfaction with nursing services provided.
• Assists and promotes budgetary management.
• Monitor unit stock, inventory and lost charges count as well as store organization.
• Ensures daily unit responsibilities (checking crash cart, refrigeration temperature checklist, etc) are assigned.
• Oversees the orientation of new staff members.
• Performs nursing interventions/procedures per established standards of care and policy and procedures.
• Assists medical colleagues with diagnostic therapeutic interventions.
• Maintains accurate and thorough documentation following established Joint Commission International Accreditation (JCIA) standards.
• Follows up clinical and PI indicators and reports to the Head Nurse.
• Communicates with the narcotic supervisor pharmacist, reporting any incident or loss to the manager.
• Maintains the Dubai Health Authority’s narcotic, controlled and semi-controlled drug books.

What you will do more

• Maintains patient medications and refunds to the pharmacy any discontinued medications.
• Oversees floor stock medications.
• Conduts the narcotic handover to the next shift and replaces the needed items.
• Ensures a complete and accurate handover has been given to the next shift.
• Monitors link nurses’ performance (infection control, pain management and clinical education).
• Participates in the unit auditing as per Manager instructions.
• Takes active lead in creating and working on unit-based PI activities (data collection, PI teams, etc.).
• Assesses education needs and provides effective and age-appropriate education to patients/families.
• Advocates the Patient’s Bill of Rights.
• Demonstrates an awareness of professional standards – keeps up to date with professional literature and changes in standards.
• Maintains patient, doctor and staff confidentiality in all areas of the hospital.
• Develops personal goals and objectives.
• Attends at least eight (8) of the twelve (12) monthly unit meetings and reads and signs for the other four (4) meetings missed on time.
• Ensures the delivery of high-quality care to assigned patients in an efficient manner.
• Assists other staff members in improving their assessment skills, giving input when need is identified.
• Unit Specific
• Performs nursing interventions/procedures per established standards of care (Competency List “Green Book”) policy and procedures including but not limited to:
• Implementing phototherapy for a patient as part of treatment.
• Conducting postnatal physical assessments for mothers.
• Utilising radiant warmer or incubator for neonatal care.
• Operating a resuscitaire for neonatal resuscitation.
• Administering sucrose to neonates for various medical reasons.
• Completes the Preceptor workshop and meets the criteria indicators for the preceptor role on the unit.
• Plans, implements and evaluates the individualized competency-based orientation in collaboration with oriented, nurse manager, and clinical resource nurse.
• Provides appropriate feedback on time to orientates and Nurse Managers.
• Provides objective documentation to the nurse manager utilizing the American Hospital Dubai orientation package.

Requirements for Role of Senior Staff Nurse