10 Oct
NMC Healthcare
Dubai
NMC Healthcare is the most trusted and the largest private healthcare company in the UAE for over 40 years. With a dedicated team of doctors and paramedical and support personnel, NMC owns and manages numerous healthcare facilities in the UAE and Oman, treating millions of patients worldwide every year. The company has specialized verticals that include Multi-Specialty Care, Maternity and Fertility, Long-Term and Home Care, Medical Centres, Day Surgery Centres, Operations and Management.
We at NMC facilitate a challenging and motivating work environment that enables ample scope for career growth and development. We create a conducive work culture that attracts, retains, and helps talented and committed individuals grow.
We encourage lifelong learning and deliver the best care to our customers and strive towards creating a world-class platform for nurturing the professionals of tomorrow.
Job Summary:
- Perform duties as per NMC guiding principles and model of care, DHA regulation, and other regulatory authorities, accreditation body.
- Provide 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.
- Apply the international patient safety goals throughout the patient journey and care process.
- Respect patient family rights throughout the patient care, with empathy and emotional stability.
- Educate and inform patients on the care process and other relevant information within the scope of practice.
- Prepare operating room for patient/procedure and demonstrate awareness and compliance with legal and ethical aspects of peri-operative nursing.
- During the surgical procedure, OT Nurses can take the role of:
Key Accountabilities:
Circulating Nurse , with the following additional duties:
- Assist in positioning, responding to comfort/safety of patients.
- Assist the Surgeon and Anesthetist in the operating theatre.
- Provide accurate care and handling of specimens.
- Observe and enforce strict standards of asepsis.
- Monitor all equipment used during surgery to confirm they are running smoothly.
- Inventory all items both pre- and post-surgery.
Scrub Nurse , with the following additional duties:
- Select and handle instruments and supplies used for the operation, passing them to the surgeon.
- Inventory all items both pre- and post-surgery.
- Deliver direct surgical care by assisting physicians.
- Provide wound exposure.
- Assist in suturing patients after the surgery.
- Count all instruments and mops before closing the wounds.
Recovery Room, with the following additional duties:
- Assess, implement, and coordinate complex care and interventions.
- Provide comfort and prevent suffering.
- Support a compassionate and therapeutic environment for post-operative patients.
- Monitor the condition and take care of patients post-operatively in the recovery room.
- Demonstrate competence required for effective and safe patient care following anaesthesia, including patent airway techniques, obstructive airway intervention, knowledge of advanced life support techniques, patient monitoring, and resuscitation.
- Liaise with wards where patients are awaiting their operation/procedure,
taking phone messages, completing paperwork, and ordering supplies of equipment.
- Facilitate and assist in diagnostics, collect specimens, instruct patients on specimen collection, transport them and ensure that results are obtained, acknowledged by the doctor.
- Perform clinical nursing procedures, administer medication and treatments as per the scope of practice, and hospital policy.
- Adhere to principles of infection control for infectious cases, document in notification form, occupational injury form, infection control log, and other relevant documentation as per policy.
- Provide individualized patient/family education customized to the adult or elderly patient and his/her family.
- Document patient assessment findings and progress towards problem resolution.
- Initiate rapid response team, emergency resuscitative measures according to hospital protocol.
- Report patient condition, handing over information, to appropriate personnel during each shift.
- Collaborate with all disciplines, support services, and others concerned to deliver the best possible care for the patient.
- Address/escalate concerns to the immediate supervisor and ensure that it is resolved.
- Utilize resources appropriately and efficiently ensuring cost-effectiveness.
- Maintain inventory – drugs, including semi-controlled and narcotics, consumables, and supplies.
- Deliver safe patient care consistently, follow infection control practices consistently.
- Manage time effectively, multitask, and prioritize responsibilities.
- Apply necessary safety checks, functionality checks,
maintenance checks, precautions while operating medical equipment.
- Report all significant relevant information professionally, timely, and appropriately.
- Demonstrate updated knowledge, reflective practice, critical thinking at all times for safe and high-quality patient care.
- Participate in professional development activities.
- Drive change, innovation, creativity, strategically think, as appropriate to scope of practice.
- Demonstrate ethical and professional behavior with supervisors, colleagues, health care providers, patients, and family.
- Participate in all quality improvement activities as expected by the organization.
- Assess risks and mitigate them, report as per the hospital policy.
- Contribute to and maintain the safety of the patient and environment by identifying risks, hazards, potential harm.
- Extend support to all the processes towards patient care, patient satisfaction, and organizational requirements.
- Readily accept any other responsibilities assigned by immediate supervisor.
Providing critical and preventive care to infants, children, and adolescents:
- Pediatric nurse responsible for the medical and health care of children from birth to late teens.
- Discuss a child's symptoms and medical history, provide initial care, administer prescribed medication, and monitor the patient's progress.
- Provide support to families and work with them to address their concerns, fears, problems, and options.
- Able to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care of children.
- Plan individualized care based on the identified needs and consider the growth and development of children.
- Demonstrate competence in pediatric pain assessment, growth and development assessment, and pediatric drug, fluid calculation.
- Understand the immunization schedule, collect appropriate immunization history, assist, support, and administer immunization as per approved guidelines.
- Provide child safety and measures to prevent accidents for hospitalized children.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing / Master’s in nursing preferred.
- Kind, compassionate, and caring towards children.
- Broad knowledge of general pediatric nursing care and excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience in clinical work as a pediatric nurse.
- Current license from home country, DHA license to practice in Dubai.
- Minimum 2 years of experience.
- BLS provider, ACLS provider.
- Speaking the Arabic language is preferable.
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