Job Title: Staff Nurse 2 PICU/CICU
Location: AlJalila Children Hospital (AJCH)
Job Purpose:
The Registered Nurse is responsible for competently providing safe care for children, young people and their families with the support of the Charge Nurse and Nurse Manager. The Registered Nurse assesses, plans, implements and evaluates care. The Registered Nurse also provides support to fellow team members and participates in the guidance, support and where indicated supervision and teaching of new or junior staff members.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Follows the nursing process to deliver safe, compassionate, and culturally effective care.
- Provides individualized and comprehensive patient care accountable for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care provided.
- Monitors and documents the child's condition, interventions, and the effectiveness of care.
- Provides and benchmarks patient care in accordance to the standards of care, established policies, procedures and evidenced-based practices.
- Develops, implements and/or revises the child's plan of care on admission and throughout the course of hospitalization. The Plan of Care developed in partnership with the child young people, family, and the interdisciplinary care team is inclusive of goals and interventions, and is outcome focused.
- Establishes, implements, and updates the patient's plan of care based on the individual patient needs, sound nursing theory, scientific principles, and professional judgment to achieve planned and expected outcomes.
- Demonstrates critical thinking skills by problem solving appropriately during patient care.
- Independently initiates escalation of any untoward changes in the child's medical status or care issues utilizing members of the healthcare team and chain of command.
- Utilizes a professional practice framework and evidence-based care, identifies improvement areas while minimizing risks creating care that is optimal for our children and families.
- Assesses, plans, provides and evaluates the educational needs of the patient and family.
- Facilitates the incorporation of patient safety and transformational leadership principles into clinical nursing care.
Qualification Requirements:
- A Bachelor's degree in Pediatric or Child Health Nursing from an accredited institute/college/university OR
- A Bachelor's degree in Nursing of at least three (3) years duration from an accredited institute/college/university.
Desirable:
Post Graduate Training qualification in Pediatric Nursing of at least one (1) year duration.
Post Graduate Certificate in specialty if applicable in country of origin. (For example Perioperative, Critical Care, Neonatology, Emergency, Renal, Oncology).
Experience Requirements:
Minimum two (2) years clinical nursing experience in an Acute Pediatric hospital dealing with complex care patients.
Certification and Licensure:
- Valid and current professional Nursing license from country of origin
- Ability to qualify for UAE and DHA nursing licensure requirements
- American Heart Association Basic Life Support training. PALS and/or Neonatal Life Support depending on your home unit
Knowledge and Skills Required:
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills
- Positive, enthusiastic and motivated individual
- Team player
- Experience documenting in an electronic medical record an asset
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
- Ability to speak and write English is required
- Arabic language skills (spoken) an asset
- English Proficiency Test is required if the candidates first language is not English. TOEFL a minimum score of 550 or IELTS a minimum band of 6.0 or equivalent
