Staff Nurse – Functional Medicine

Job Description

• 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. Revises 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:

• Performs nursing interventions/procedures per established standards of care (Competency List “Green Book”) policy and procedures including but not limited to:
  • Prepare patients for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) sessions, ensuring safety and comfort. 
  • Conduct pre-treatment assessments (vital signs, contraindication screening, patient education).
  • Operate and monitor monoplace/ multiplace hyperbaric chambers during treatment. 
  • Monitor patients for signs of complications (barotrauma, oxygen toxicity, hypoglycemia, etc..)
  • Document treatments, patient responses, and any adverse events. 
  • Maintain chamber equipment and ensure safety protocols are strictly followed. 
  • Assist the physician in managing emergencies inside or outside the chamber.
  • Educate patients on post-treatment care and precautions
  • Comply with infection control, safety standards and accreditation requirements. 
  • Prepare setup EBOO equipment, ensuring sterility and proper calibration
  • Assist in venous access (IV cannulation, line management)
  • Monitor patient hemodynamic status throughout the procedure
  • Safely administer EBOO sessions under physician supervision. 
  • Perform hemodynamic monitoring (BP, HR, SpO₂, ECG, respiratory status).
  • Assist in emergency interventions (airway management, BLS, ACLS if required).

Responsibilities

General :

• 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:

• Performs nursing interventions/procedures per established standards of care (Competency List “Green Book”) policy and procedures including but not limited to:
  • Prepare patients for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) sessions, ensuring safety and comfort. 
  • Conduct pre-treatment assessments (vital signs, contraindication screening, patient education).
  • Operate and monitor monoplace/multiplace hyperbaric chambers during treatment. 
  • Monitor patients for signs of complications (barotrauma, oxygen toxicity, hypoglycemia, etc..)
  • Document treatments, patient responses, and any adverse events. 
  • Maintain chamber equipment and ensure safety protocols are strictly followed. 
  • Assist the physician in managing emergencies inside or outside the chamber.
  • Educate patients on post-treatment care and precautions
  • Comply with infection control, safety standards and accreditation requirements. 
  • Prepare setup EBOO equipment, ensuring sterility and proper calibration
  • Assist in venous access (IV cannulation, line management)
  • Monitor patient hemodynamic status throughout the procedure
  • Safely administer EBOO sessions under physician supervision. 
  • Perform hemodynamic monitoring (BP, HR, SpO₂, ECG, respiratory status).
  • Assist in emergency interventions (airway management, BLS, ACLS if required).

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:

• 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.
• Hyperbaric Nursing Certification (e.g., UHMS, NBDHMT, or equivalent)
• Ozone Therapy or EBOO (Extracorporeal Blood Oxygenation and Ozonation) certification

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum of two (2) years of recent post-graduate experience in Functional/Wellness Clinics.
• 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 prioritizing care based on individual needs.