Staff Nurse - Pediatric Inpatient Ward TP American Hospital Dubai LLC

• 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).

• Ensures clinical competencies as well as life support courses are up to date.

• Participates in staff meetings and unit committees/projects.

• Participates in developing and achieving unit goals.

• Maintains a safe environment for patients and staff.

• Performs safe handling and administrating of narcotics/Controlled and Semi-Controlled Drugs and documentation as directed by policies and procedures.

• Ensures completion of unit competencies i.e. pain management, and utilization of Emergency department devices.

• Maintains clinical and professional competency based on the latest research and established standards of practice.

• Completes yearly, the critical care nursing competencies (basic).

• Participates in unit-based Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) activities (data collection, CQI teams, incident reporting, customer complaint reporting, medication error reporting etc.).

• Participates in ongoing educational activities.

• Maintains mandatory educational requirements.

• Performs additional duties when required.

Unit Specific:

• Encourages the use of the playroom.

• Abides by the standards of care and practice of the hospital and the nursing department.

• Adheres to the required assessment and nursing therapeutic skills according to the paediatric manual.

• Initiates basic life support during codes until the code team arrives and takes over the resuscitation process.

• Provides support to family/caregivers of paediatric patients as needed.

• Implements and monitors infection control measures.

• Administers and monitors medications' desirable and undesirable effects and intervenes accordingly.

• Ensures patients are provided with appropriate nutrition.

• Delivers pre-operative and post-operative patient care.

• Applies safety measures related to paediatric patient care mainly patient falls and safe environment.

• Abides strictly on the procedure of paediatric security.

• Operates all unit-required equipment safely.

• Participates in quality initiatives and quality improvement activities to improve the unit standards of quality provided.

• Provides patient and family education by:

  • Assessing patient and family readiness and ability to learn.

  • Identifying learning needs and objectives.

  • Developing and implementing the teaching plan utilizing the patient education manual.

  • Leading/encouraging a multidisciplinary approach to patient discharge.

  • Evaluating the teaching-learning process.

  • Documenting patient and family education.