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Provides direct and indirect age-specific care for assigned patients in the Pediatric Urgent Care Clinic per scheduled shifts. Responsible for professional performance and safe patient care. The role encompasses nursing assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, evaluation, and care coordination for patients across the healthcare continuum involving families. Abides by the Joint Commission International (JCI) requirements, including but not limited to International Patient Safety Goals, national and international standards.

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.
  • 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 (Green Book) policy and procedures including but not limited to:
  • Provides emergency care to pediatric patients with suspected sepsis.
  • Administers oral medications to infants, toddlers, and older children.
  • Calculates fluid requirements for pediatric patients.
  • Performs a 12-lead ECG on pediatric patients.
  • Collects blood culture samples from pediatric patients.

Preceptor’s Responsibilities (when applicable):

• Completes the Preceptor workshop and meets the criteria indicators for the preceptor role on the unit.
• Plans, implements and evaluates the individualized competency-based orientation in collaboration with the orientee, nurse manager, and clinical resource nurse.
• Provides appropriate feedback on time to orientee and Nurse Manager.
• Provides objective documentation to the nurse manager utilizing the American Hospital Dubai's established standards of care (Competency List “Green Book and Blue Book”).

• 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 the Pediatric Urgent Care Nursing .
• 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.

Staff Nurse - Pediatric Inpatient Ward TP Job Description

Provides direct and indirect age-specific care for assigned patients in the Paediatric Ward. Delivers nursing assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, evaluation, and coordination of care for patients across the healthcare continuum involving families. Provides, but is not limited to, age-specific paediatric care and managing acute and chronic cases.

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 healthcare 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.
• 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).
• Ensures clinical competencies as well as life support courses are up to date.
• 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 administering of narcotics/Controlled and Semi-Controlled Drugs and documentation as directed by policies and procedures.
• 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:

• Encourages the use of the playroom.
• Adheres to the required assessment and nursing therapeutic skills according to the paediatric manual.
• Initiates basic life support during codes until the code team arrives and takes over the resuscitation process.
• Provides support to family/caregivers of paediatric patients as needed.
• Implements and monitors infection control measures.
• Administers and monitors medications' desirable and undesirable effects and intervenes accordingly.
• Ensures patients are provided with appropriate nutrition.
• Delivers pre-operative and post-operative patient care.
• Applies safety measures related to paediatric patient care mainly patient falls and safe environment.
• Abides strictly on the procedure of paediatric security.
• Operates all unit-required equipment safely.
• Participates in quality initiatives and quality improvement activities to improve the unit standards of quality provided.
• Provides patient and family education by:
  • Assessing patient and family readiness and ability to learn.
  • Identifying learning needs and objectives.
  • Developing and implementing the teaching plan utilizing the patient education manual.
  • Leading/encouraging a multidisciplinary approach to patient discharge.
  • Evaluating the teaching-learning process.
  • Documenting patient and family education.

• 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

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum of two (2) years of recent post-graduate experience in a Pediatrics Ward
• 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