Registered Nurse - NICU (Sharjah)

Overview

• Be responsible for providing and coordinating patient care, educating patients and the public about various health conditions, and providing advice and emotional support to patients and their family members.
• Assess and identify patients' needs and implement and monitor the patient's medical plan and treatment. They will work with a team of physicians and other health care specialists or allied health in various settings.
• Perform systematic patient assessment, re-assessment and collect pertinent data about the patient’s health or situation.
• Understand and analyse the assessment information and data.
• Determine actual and potential nursing diagnoses, problems, and issues.
• Define the predicted and expected outcomes of the patient’s planned care.
• Create and evaluate patient care plans with the interprofessional team, in collaboration with the patient and patient's bystanders.
• Record vital signs, recognize, address and escalate all abnormalities.
• Maintain and update technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice.
• Employ strategies to promote patients’ health and a safe environment.
• Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory examinations.
• Perform essential life support as per regulatory requirements and scope such as but not limited to Basic Life Support and Neonatal Resuscitation etc.
• Prepare patients for medical examination and treatment.
• Administer medications and monitor patients for any side effects and reactions.
• Administer treatments such as IV fluids or blood products and monitor patients for any reactions.
• Provide wound care management.
• Assist in medical procedures invasive or non-invasive as needed.
• Facilitate the process of safe patient`s admission, transfer and discharge.
• Competent with all the mandatory and unit specific competencies supported and assigned on the Elsevier platform to ensure adherence to evidence Based practices.
• Demonstrate proficiency in emergency procedures, equipment, and protocols relevant to the department
• Participate in ongoing programs and certification to support professional growth and maintain clinical competency.
• Comply with unit Scope of Service.
• Complete care and safety of allocated neonates.
• Able to care critically ill, unconscious, or ventilated neonates
• Accurate monitoring of vital signs, hemodynamics, and oxygenation.and recording of patient condition.
• Report any abnormality in patient condition immediately to the medical staff and escalate as and when required.
• Competent in all aspects of neonatal nursing care.
• Assist to resuscitate an asphyxiated newborn.
• Consult and cooperate with medical staff on the care of the mother and baby.
• Care for relatives’ need and emotions through stressful situation and bereavement.
• Perform duties based on professional ethics, assuring privacy and maintaining confidentiality.
• Safe custody and administration of drugs/narcotics as per hospital policy.
• Educate the family regarding the growth and development, milestones, feeding, disease, medication, pain management etc. and according to the identified individual need, provide educational materials if available.
• Promote and teach breastfeeding.
• Perform competency in point of care testing and ensure quality requirements.
• Able to handle all equipments in the unit
• Ensure all equipment is maintained in good working order, reporting any fault to Nurse Manager/Engineering.
• Ensure complete ward requirements, stock verification and inventories
• Recognize and respond promptly to code situations (e.g., Code Blue).
• Maintain detailed and accurate documentation in the EMR (Electronic Medical Record)and physical flow charts
• Maintaining Unit specific and general nursing Competencies by Elsevier.