Registered Nurse - Medical Intensive Care Unit (Royal)

Overview

• The unit provides acute and intensive care for Royal Family members in the Kingdom who:
• Respond to cardio-respiratory arrest resuscitation
• Have one or more system failures who need observation and/or active management including patients with circulatory failure requiring massive volume expansion and/or vasoactive medications and invasive monitoring
• Have respiratory failure and require supportive measures to cardiovascular diseases, internal medicine, gastroenterology, nephrology, pulmonary medicine, endocrinology, rheumatology, infectious diseases, neurosciences, pediatrics, ENT, obstetrics and gynecology, oncology and orthopedics.
• Each Royal Family member may have a different need and set of expectations.
• Both Nursing and Protocol Services staff assist with issues that may arise from these expectations.
• No. of Beds: 5 (3 ICU Beds and 2 Suites)
• Invasive hemodynamic monitoring
• Mechanical ventilation
• Cardiac monitoring
• Hemodialysis
• Continuous renal replacement therapy
• IV therapy
• Fluid and electrolyte balance and replacement
• Blood and blood component administration
• Airway management
• Skin and respiratory care
• Pain management, patient controlled analgesia, epidural analgesia
• Administration of inotropes and vasoactive agents
• Emergency resuscitation procedures
• Management of post-operative drains and wound care
• Safety management
• Infection control
• Chemotherapy
• Psychosocial care
• Intra-abdominal monitoring
• Plasmapheresis
• Tracheostomy care
• Nutritional care TPN / Enteral Feeds
• Bedside bronchoscopy / endoscopy
• Bedside bone marrow aspiration/biopsy
• Bedside percutaneous tracheostomy
• Hypothermia protocol
• RASS scoring
• BIS monitoring
• Train of Four monitoring
• Spiritual care
• ICP / EVD monitoring
• Patient / significant other education
• CERNER / ICIS systems
• Vigileo monitoring system
• Cool guard hypothermia system