Registered Nurse - Orthopedic & Urgent Care

Job Description

• Perform his / her duties as per organization's guiding principles and model of care, DHA regulation and other regulatory authorities, the accreditation body.
• Provides care in a non-judgmental, non-discriminatory manner that is sensitive to the adult or elderly patient’s and family’s diversity, preserving their autonomy, dignity and rights.
• Provide culturally appropriate patient-focused nursing care.
• Applies & ensures the international patient safety goals throughout the patient journey and care process.
• Respect the patient and applies patient family rights throughout the patient care, with empathy, and emotional stability.
• Educates and informs the patient on the care process and other relevant information within her scope of practice.
• Conducts individualized patient screenings, assessments, prioritizing the data collection as per the scope of practices.
• Performs appropriate treatments as ordered by the physician in an accurate and timely manner.
• Performs therapeutic nursing interventions as per the doctor’s order such as ECG, Nebulization, GMT, and preparing the patients for TMT, ECHO, Holter Monitoring, and Ambulatory BP monitoring if it is required.
• Work closely with doctors to keep patients and their family members updated on test results or treatment recommendations.
• Facilitate and assist in diagnostics, and Collect specimens, instructs patients on specimen collection, transport them and ensure that results are obtained, acknowledged by the doctor.
• Performs clinical nursing procedures, and general therapies and interventions, and treatments as per the scope of practice, hospital policy.
• Administers medication as per rights, adheres to medication management process, indent, labeling, storage, appropriateness review. (APPLICABLE TO ONLY RN).
• Maintain hygiene of the unit by adhering to Sterilization and Disinfection Policy. And adhere to the infection control policies and procedures.
• Adhere to principles of infection control for infectious cases, documents in notification form, infection control log and other relevant documentation as per policy.
• Assure proper consent for patients when applicable as per hospital policy.
• Provides individualized patient/family education customized to the adult or elderly patient and his/her family.
• Documents patient assessment findings, physical/psychosocial responses to nursing intervention.
• Documents relevantly, legibly and precisely as per the documentation policy both in HIS and manual records as appropriate.
• Collaborates with all disciplines, support services and others concerned to deliver the best possible care for the patient.
• Addresses / escalates concerns to the immediate supervisor and ensures that it is resolved.
• Utilizes resources appropriately and efficiently ensuring cost effectiveness.
• Maintains inventory – drugs, including controlled, consumables and supplies, participate in product evaluation whenever necessary.
• Delivers safe patient care consistently, and follows the infection control practices consistently.
• By managing their time, effectively multitasking and prioritize their responsibilities have a better time completing their duties promptly and maintain confidence in critical situations.
• Applies necessary safety checks, functionality, checks, maintenance checks, and precautions while operating medical equipment, including crash cart as per hospital policy.
• Reports all significant relevant information professionally, timely, and appropriately, including near misses, incidents, issues, and patient care and patient safety.
• Demonstrates updated knowledge, reflective practice, and critical thinking at all times for safe and high-quality patient care.
• Acts & practice consistent activities that enhance the Organization's reputation.
• Updates self professionally, meet the training requirements, and competencies, maintains self-performance log as expected, and participate in professional development activities.
• Orients new staff, and evaluates peer group and allied staff as per the hospital policy.
• Drives change, innovation, creativity, and strategic thinking, as appropriate to scope of practice.
• Demonstrates ethical and professional behavior with supervisors, colleagues, health care providers, patients and family.
• Demonstrates interest and actively participates in all quality improvement activities as expected by the organization such as KPI, QI projects, Audits, Policies and procedures, reporting incidents and near miss, etc.
• Assess constantly risk and mitigate them, reports as per the hospital policy.
• Contributes to maintaining the safety of the patient and environment by identifying risks, hazards, and potential harm as per the safety policy of the hospital.
• Extend support to all the processes, directly and indirectly towards patient care, patient satisfaction, organizational requirements such as patient feedback, patient complaints, statistical data, and maintaining reports and records.
• Readily accepts any other responsibilities assigned by immediate supervisor.