Registered Nurse - OT

- 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, re-assessment and collect pertinent data about the patient’s health or situation.
- Understand and analyse 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 interprofessional team, in collaboration with the patient and patient's bystanders.
- Record vital signs, recognize, address and escalate all abnormalities.
- Maintain and update technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice.
- Employ strategies to promote patients’ health and a safe environment.
- Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory examinations.
- Perform essential life support as per regulatory requirements and scope such as but not limited to Basic Life Support, Paediatric Advanced Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Neonatal Resuscitation etc.
- Prepare patients for medical examination and treatment.
- Administer medications and monitor patients for any side effects and reactions.
- Administer treatments such as IV fluids or blood products and monitor patients for any reactions.
- Provide wound care management.
- Assist in medical procedures invasive or non-invasive as needed.
- Facilitate all perioperative processes safely.
- Dons & adheres to operating room attire according to policy and procedure.
- Use of appropriate personal protective equipment and safety systems.
- Prepares room and assembles instruments & equipment based on patient’s surgical needs.
- Demonstrate knowledge of aseptic technique.
- Correctly identifies patient and surgical site.
- Checks thoroughly the pre-operative checklist of patient: including completion of required diagnostic & laboratory procedures
- Monitors patients’ vital signs in the pre-operative area and post-operative recovery room
- Positions patient with the use of positional aids, maintaining circulatory, respiratory, neuromuscular homeostasis while maintaining privacy and providing maximum exposure to the operative procedure
- Demonstrates skill in performing the duties of scrub nurse and circulating nurse
- Provides safety to patient, to self & the whole surgical team by adopting safety protocols like ‘Time Out’
- Counts Surgical items audibly, and views items concurrently with another individual when counting, and recognizes that one of the individuals performing the count should be the RN circulator.
- Recognizes that, when possible, surgical counts during a procedure should be performed by the same two individuals.

- Essential: the post holder must
- Have an appropriate license to work as a registered nurse in the relevant regulatory health authority with all the qualifications and experience these mandates.
- Manage their own professional re-licensure.
- Hold a valid American Heart Association Basic Life Support Provider & ACLS card.
- Be willing to work across departments when necessary.
- Be able to communicate clearly and effectively in English (spoken and written)
- DESIRABLE: The post holder should have:
- Evidenced ability to work as part of an inter-professional team.
- Organizational and administrative skills with which to use the electronic medical record platform for clinical documentation.
- Be able to communicate effectively in Arabic