Registered Nurse - Medical Intensive Care Unit (Royal)

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