Registered Nurse Outpatient

Job Description

The purpose of this role 

The purpose of this role is to provide qualityhealth and personal care services to patients in a professional, efficient and courteous manner.

• Identifies patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand care requirements.
• Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
• Promotes patient’s independence by establishing patient care goals; teaching patient, friends, and family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills; answering questions.
• Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments; following hospital and nursing division’s philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations.
• Resolves patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.
• Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations; calling for assistance from health care support personnel.
• Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.
• Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
• Maintains continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.

The Minimum Qualifications and Knowledge 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing.  
• DHA License (or Eligibility) as a Registered Nurse (mandatory)
• BLS certification (mandatory) ACLS/PALS Certification preferred
• Fluency in English (speak, read and write).
• Arabic speaking skills will be an added advantage.
• Excellent Computer Literacy skills is required.

Job-Specific Skills: 
Undertake clinical duties, with relevant training in the below areas:

• Have knowledge of acute/chronic disease management that encompasses respiratory, cardiac conditions.
• Implement and evaluate individual chronic disease care plans.
• Undertake clinical duties, with relevant training in the below areas:
• Chronic disease management
• ECG
• Spirometry
• Health assessments
• Primary Care Clinics
• Wound Care
• Childhood Immunisation & Travel Vaccination

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