Registered Nurse – OT Full Time

These must be upheld in accordance with the UAE NMC Code of Conduct and Scope of Practice (MoHaP). The post holder will:

• Always speak up if safety is a concern.
• Treat all patients with kindness, respect, and compassion.
• Recognize and work within the limits of their own competence.
• Take responsibility for their own actions.
• Communicate effectively with colleagues to ensure patients receives the safest, most effective care possible.
• Perform additional duties when required.

Education and Training:

• Ensure relevant training and competency is undertaken to deliver care safely.
• Maintain up-to-date mandatory training requirements.
• Follow the clinical pathways set out by the NMC Elsevier platform.
• Follow and comply with the NMC Competency Framework, relevant to their role profile.
• Be willing to learn new clinical skills.
• Support and supervise pre-registration and new nurses and Health Care Workers when required.
• Participate in teaching, mentorship and preceptorship programs when required.
• Participate in clinical supervision.
• Participate in Performance Improvement Plans when required.
• Share knowledge and skill with others, in order to improve patient care and service.
• Ensure they are skilled, trained and competent before using any medical device.
• Involve patients in their own healthcare and recovery through education, awareness, and positive reinforcement.

Quality Assurance:

• Speak up if something isn’t right.
• Maintain awareness of and comply with, the NMC Policies and Procedures
• Participate in all activities related to DoH/DHA/MoH/NMC Quality Improvement when required.
• Understand the Regulatory standards and which of them apply to their daily working practice.
• Continually seek to improve the service of and care delivery for patients and their families.
• Report and notify all untoward/serious and near miss incidents to your direct line manager and then through the Sapphire/incident reporting system in a timely way.
• Cooperate with all investigations and audits when requested to do so in the interest of developing a learning culture and seeking to improve care and service.
• Promote customer service based on NMC patient satisfaction results.
• Share great practice.

Professional:

• Uphold the reputation of the nursing profession at all times.
• Act as a positive role model for all nursing and support staff
• Must have insight of own behavior on others.
• Be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of programs of care under the indirect supervision of senior nursing staff.
• Comply will all aspects of the UAE NMC Code of Conduct
• Refuse to undertake any task for which he/she has not been trained and is not competent to undertake.
• Always seek expert help when the demand of care, service, or skill, falls outside their capabilities.
• Only delegate tasks to those team members who are trained, skilled and competent to undertake such tasks.
• Assist in updating clinical policies and guidelines in line with skill and experience.
• Assist, engage with and contribute to the professional development of colleagues.
• Ensure revalidation is managed in a timely manner.
• Maintain patient confidentiality at all times.
• Ensure timely expert advice or senior nursing support is sought when a patient’s condition fails to respond to prescribed treatment.
• Manage a deteriorating patient without delay, using the EWS 2 escalation process and emergency algorithm.

Equality and Diversity: The post holder is required to promote equality in service delivery and employment practices. All employees must comply with NMC equality and diversity policies, procedures and initiatives.

Infection Prevention and Control: IPC is everyone’s responsibility. All staff are required to read and implement the NMC IPC Policy and Strategy in an effort to maintain the highest possible standards of cleanliness at all times, thus reducing the risk of infection in patients, staff and visitors. The strictest hand hygiene, 5 moments of hand hygiene, bare below the elbows and environmental care, will be expected of all staff, including the post holder, at all times.

Key Responsibilities for the RN role

Registered Nurse will:

• 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 and collect pertinent data about the patient’s health or situation.
• Understand and analyze 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 medical team.
• Record vital signs, recognize, and address abnormalities.
• Define the care plan in collaboration with the healthcare team, patients, and families.
• Maintain and update the technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice.
• Employ strategies to promote patients’ health and a safe environment.
• Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory exams.
• Perform essential life support (BLS/ACLS/PALS)
• Prepare patients for medical examination and treatment.
• Administer medications and monitor patients for any side effects and reactions.
• Provide wound care management.
• Assist in medical procedures invasive or non-invasive as needed.
• Facilitate the process of safe patient`s admission and discharge.

Unit Specific

General Duties and responsibility 

• Consult and coordinates with health care team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care plans.
• Conducts pre and post – operative education as necessary.
• Serves as the communication liaison to family and members of the operating team.
• Ensures that operating on correct patient and the correct procedure id being performed.
• Responds to life-saving situations based upon nursing standards and protocol.
• Records all care information concisely, accurately, and completely, in a timely manner, in the appropriate format and on the appropriate forms.
• Initiate corrective action whenever equipment shows adverse malfunction.
• Perform other position –related duties as assigned depending on assignment setting.

Scrub Duties 

• Set up the theatre by assembling of equipment’s and supplies based on patient surgical need, surgeon’s preference, and policies of the hospital.
• Demonstrates knowledge of aseptic technique.
• Scrub for surgery according to international standards and hospital hand washing policy.
• Set up the back table and mayo trolley by maintain sterile field including sponge, needles and instrument counts and maintains a clean and orderly operative field for the surgeon to work on.
• Assist the surgical team in gowning and gloving.
• Prepare the surgical site with antiseptic solution.
• Drape the patient with the help of the surgeon.
• Enable setting up of necessary equipment.
• Execute time out policy with team members.
• Correctly identifies patient, procedure, and surgical site.
• Maintain sterility throughout the surgery.
• Coordinate with the circulating nurse for the initial and final counting of sponges, sutures, needles, and instruments before closure. If there is a missing item, notifies the surgeon and nursing in-charge immediately.
• Maintain instruments by proper handling, washing, disinfecting. Checking and packing in the designed sets for CSSD.

Circulatory Duties 

• Essure proper supplies, equipment’s and instrumentation’s are available for surgical procedures.
• Receive the patient, checks that all documents are complete and checks all parameters as per preoperative checklist.
• Validate patient’s name, surgical procedure, and surgeon before shifting to respective theatre.
• Position the patient according to surgical procedure.
• Assist the scrub nurse in preparing necessary equipment, instruments and consumables.
• Executes time out policy with surgical team members.
• Together with the scrub nurse, count instruments, gauze, mops, blades and needles and documents in the white board as well as in the preoperative nursing record.
• Continuously supervise aseptic technique throughout the procedure.
• Accept and consciously applies emergency measures when needed. Demonstrate competence in Cardio-pulmonary Resuscitation Technique.
• Stay with the patient during extubation until the patient is shifted to the recovery room.
• Complete all the documentation needed.
• Demonstrates the following:
• Document in the patient file.
• Complete the OT surgical checklist (Time-Out).
• Assist in theatre cleaning following surgery, including proper disposal of used supplies and sharps, cleaning of equipment’s and setting up theatre for the next surgery.
• Collect and replaces consumables to Operation Theatre store before and after surgery.

Medication Administration 

• Follows hospital policies on medication administration.
• Safe custody and administration of drugs/narcotics as per hospital policy.
• Knowledge of medications and their correct administration based on age and weight of the patient and their clinical condition.
• Follows the ten medication rights before administering any medication.

Patient and Family Education 

• Communicates appropriate information to patients and their relatives.
• Educates the patient and family regarding the disease, medication, diet, pain management, rehabilitation etc. and according to the identified individual need provide educational materials if available.