Staff Nurse - Medical Surgical Unit
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About the Role
Provides age-specific patient-centered care, performs assessments, coordinates care, and collaborates with a multidisciplinary team in a medical-surgical unit.
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Responsibilities
- Provide age specific patient centered care utilizing the nursing process
- Perform patient assessment using appropriate techniques
- Administer medications and monitor effects
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary team for patient care
- Document all relevant data in medical records
- Develop and implement individualized care plans
- Provide pre operative and post operative care
- Participate in quality improvement activities
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Nursing or equivalent
- Valid nursing license in UAE (DHA or equivalent)
- 2 8 years of experience in medical surgical nursing
- BLS certification
- Knowledge of JCIA standards
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Overview
- Provides direct and indirect age specific care for assigned patients in medical surgical nursing units per scheduled shifts.
- The role encompasses nursing assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, evaluation, professional performance and coordination of care for patients across the healthcare continuum involving families.
- Provides patients with medical and/or surgical cases, clinical, educational, quality, and fiscal patient care outcomes as per the American Hospital Dubai's policies, procedures, guidelines, Professional Practice Model, and standards of practice.
General Responsibilities
- 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.
Unit Specific Responsibilities
- Develops individualized care plans based on the nursing diagnosis, with updated revisions according to evaluation and re assessment findings.
- Sets priorities and plans implementation of patient care; implementation of care is completed in a timely, organized manner.
- Demonstrates attention to discharge planning; discharge planning that is addressed on admission, ongoing and as care plans are modified.
- Provides accurate, complete, and prompt reports on patient care conditions and response to treatment utilizing SBAR.
- Ensures nursing documentation is informative, complete, accurate, concise, and legible.
- Works in other areas within the hospital when assigned, within the scope of practice.
- Maintains clinical and professional competency based on the latest research and established standards of practice.
- Demonstrates awareness and knowledge of Infection Control, Pain Management and Wound Care practices and standards.
- Understands the responsibilities of safe handling, and administration of Narcotic/Controlled Drugs and documentation.
- Demonstrates support of leadership. Encourages team decisions, and cooperation within and across departments.
- Demonstrates an understanding of cultural differences among customers and colleagues.
- Involves patient, significant others and healthcare provider in patient's plan of care and education.
Additional Responsibilities
- Performs special procedures (Peritoneal Dialysis, Chemotherapy administration, Auto Transfusion, etc.) in accordance with procedures and guidelines.
- Demonstrates understanding and familiarity with Facility Management and Safety plans.
- Provides basic life support when needed.
- Implements and monitors infection control measures.
- Administers medications, monitor desirable and undesirable effects, and intervene appropriately.
- Ensures that patients are provided with appropriate nutrition.
- Delivers pre operative and post operative patient care.
- Applies safety measures related to patient care.
- Operates all unit required equipment safely.
- Manages kidney transplant patients when applicable.
- Manages patients with infectious diseases when applicable.
- Manages patients with psychiatric problems when applicable.
Patient Education and Quality
- Manages patients on radioactive iodine precautions when applicable.
- Participates in quality initiatives and quality improvement activities to improve the unit standards of quality provided.
- Provides emotional support and measures to alleviate fear and anxiety.
- Assesses patient and family readiness and identifies learning needs.
- Leads/encourages multidisciplinary approach for patient's discharge.
- Develops and implements the teaching plan utilizing the patient education manual.
- Evaluates the teaching learning process.
- Documents patient and family education.
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