Registered Nurse

Registered Nurse

Registered Nurse

Job Description:

  • To provide general nursing care, working collaboratively with physicians and multidisciplinary team members. Will promote and restore patient’s health as they plan, provide, delegate, evaluate and coordinate comprehensive nursing care through the use of the nursing process for patients of all ages, gender, cultures, and background; provide physical and psycho-social support to patients and their families/friends.
  • Appropriately prepares for, initiate under supervision, monitors, and administers appropriate care to critically ill patients on technological support, e.g., mechanical ventilator, pacemaker.
  • Executes airway management in accordance with the patients’ needs or state of respiratory failure, e.g., position, anatomical alignment, meticulous suctioning.
  • Performs effective oxygenation of a critically ill patient using various types of oxygenation devices in accordance with patient needs/status and vital parameters, e.g., nasal cannula.
  • Determines readiness, prepares the patient for, and performs extubating of an intubated patient.
  • Continuously monitors, interprets, and reacts to the respiratory and hemodynamic status of the critically ill patient including acid base and electrolyte status using both non-invasive (pulse oximeter, cardiac monitor, NIBP, capnograph, cardiac output) and invasive technology (invasive arterial pressure monitor, ventricular assist mechanisms like IABP)
  • Safely and confidently operates various types of technology used in the Critical Care Setting, e.g., mechanical ventilators, cardiac monitors, infusion pumps, both volume, pressure, and patient controlled pumps.
  • Initiates/performs advanced resuscitative procedures informed by the patient’s cardiopulmonary status and technological parameters, using BLS (Basic Life Support) , Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) algorithm and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS).
  • Accurately records, analyses, interprets and reacts appropriately to biomedical and technological findings/information/ parameters such as ventilator parameters, arterial and venous blood gases (where required), capnograph, sputum status; arterial and venous pressure, pulse; electrocardiogram (ECG) both cardiac monitored and 12 to 18 lead ECG, electrolytes, renal output, intracranial pressure (where applicable), Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), peripheral pulses, skin colour, temperature (core and peripheral) including capillary refill.
  • Accurately calculate drug dosages for continuous infusions and boluses of treatment to a critically ill patient, especially inotropic support or vasoactive drugs, glycaemic control, accurately calculate replacement and maintenance fluids for hemodynamically compromised patients.
  • Prepares for and assists with diagnostic procedures performed to critical care patients including execution of insightful post procedure observations.
  • Appropriately prepares for reception, initiates, and maintains care of patients post major surgery and/or multiple traumas in the ICU, for example, cardiac surgery, neurosurgery.

Education:

BSC Nursing

Experience:

3 Years UAE