Staff Nurse - Emergency

Job Description:

Position: Staff Nurse - Emergency

Position Description:

Provides direct patient care and coordinates patient care-related activities using the scientific process of nursing. Nursing care is given to paediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric populations in the Emergency Department setting.

Position Responsibility:

General:

•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).

•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 Narcotic/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:

•Ensures patients are prioritized for care through utilization of the unit's triage process.

•Coordinates and communicates with various departments to achieve optimal care for patients.

•Assists new employees during the orientation period when required.

•Ensures implementation of guidelines and new processes in the Emergency Department.

•Performs continual assessment of patients using the Emergency Severity Index (ESI) as guidelines.

•Performs TRIAGE in the Emergency Department.

•Identifies complications and deviations from the norm.

•Recognizes emergency situations and demonstrates the necessary skills to intervene in a timely manner.

•Performs nursing interventions/procedures in accordance with established standards of care and policy and procedures of the Emergency Department.

•Performs Emergency Nursing interventions and procedures as required in a timely manner according to patient needs.

•Ensures and maintains a therapeutic environment for patients and staff.

•Assists medical colleagues with diagnostic therapeutic interventions and has full knowledge of assessing, planning, intervening, and evaluating the need for such interventions.

•Maintains accurate and thorough documentation following established guidelines.

•Demonstrates prompt but accurate judgment when rendering care to clients in an emergency situation.

•Foresees unpredicted changes in patient dependency and volume of work in the Emergency Department.

•Coordinates and reinforces necessary follow-up care, evaluation and or discharge instructions to patients on discharge from the Emergency Department.

•Evaluates the patient's need for further care and assist them when necessary.

•Floats to other areas within the hospital when required.

•Attends home visits when required.

•Administers medication according to the hospital policy.

•Documents medication administration accurately according to protocol.

•Escalates InfectionControl issues, reports and documents as directed in the Infection Control policies and procedures.

•Checks crash cart, and other group assignments.

•Ensures the next shift receives a complete and pertinent report that facilitates continuity of care.

Position Qualification:

•Bachelor's degree in nursing (minimum of three (3) years full-time course duration) or

•Degree in Nursing (minimum two (2) years course duration) and Registration as a Registered Nurse from Canada, USA, UK, Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia

•For UAE nationals graduates of UAE or non-UAE universities are exempted from the experience and clinical training requirements for the applied title. (UAE nationals must submit a copy of their birth certificate and the mother's family book)

•Non-UAE national graduates from UAE universities are required to successfully complete six (6) months of clinical training post-graduation in an APS health facility (except for Registered and assistant Nurse titles)

•Must hold a valid License/Registration to practice in their home country and/or country of last employment (where applicable)

•Must hold a minimum of a valid Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification or others according to the scope of practice

•Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) certification

•Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification

•Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification - must be attained within 6 months of employment through the American Hospital Dubai's course

•Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC) certification preferred

•Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) certification preferred

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

•Minimum of two (2) years of recent post-graduate experience in Emergency Room

•Knowledge of and ability to render care and services based on age, appropriateness, and developmental needs of patients

•Skills in the assessment of patient and family's physical and psychological needs

•Skills in coordination and planning of care and prioritising care based on individual needs

•Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) certification is essential

Requirements: