Registered Nurse - Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU)
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About the Role
The employer is seeking a Registered Nurse for the Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role involves providing care for pre-term infants, newborns with various conditions, and convalescing babies from the NICU.
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Responsibilities
- Provide routine and emergency patient care including neonatal resuscitation
- Perform newborn physical assessments and monitor vital signs
- Administer medications, IV therapy, TPN, lipids, and blood products
- Manage phototherapy and isolation precautions
- Educate families on breastfeeding and infant care
Requirements
- Registered Nurse qualification
- Experience in neonatal or special care baby unit
- Proficiency in neonatal resuscitation and newborn assessment
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Primary Patient Diagnoses
- Pre terms (1300 grams) and above
- Newborns from 32 term gestation, Jaundice mild RDS, Congenital, Malformations with stable cardiorespiratory status, feeding intolerance, babies at risk of infection and growing preterm with physiological immaturity such as gynae of prematurity, inability to maintain body temperature or an inability
- Babies convalescing from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Nursing Procedures
- Routine and Emergency Patient Care Neonatal Resuscitation
- Newborn Physical Assessment
- Airway Management and Oxygen Administration (Non Ventilatory support)
- Non invasive cardiac, Respiratory, BP & Oxygen Saturation Monitoring
- Medication Administration
- IV Therapy
- TPN & Lipid Administration
- Blood and Blood Product Administration Phototherapy and intense phototherapy management
- Isolation Precautions
- Blood Sampling (Capillary, Venous)
- Care of Patients requiring Moderate Sedation
- Neonatal Transport
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