Essential Functions

• Supports nursing care standards through adherence to existing policies and procedures.
• Regularly attends unit conferences and makes recommendations for improvement in patient care via the patient care conference and unit conference.
• Participates in peer review as appropriate.
• Obtains and documents nursing history from patients and/or significant others that is comprehensive of the present condition and prior problems.
• Performs basic assessment of patients, indicating adequate knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and pathology.
• Records vital signs notes changes and pursues more-specific investigations as needed.
• Identifies abnormal diagnostic data and shows a fundamental understanding of its implications by reporting information to the physician and others caring for the patient, and by incorporating information in the nursing care plan.
• Uses assessment information to develop a care plan before the end of duty time that communicates enough information for incoming staff to adequately care for the patient.
• Reviews and develops care plans for assigned patients.
• Includes the patient and his or her family in planning care, establishing priorities, and setting goals.
• Uses care plans as a basis for providing safe and therapeutic care to patients.
• Communicates with the patient and his or her family and other members of the health care team in carrying out the goals of the care plan.
• Evaluates and note the patient's response to nursing care defined in the nursing care plan and medical records.
• Assumes responsibility for professional growth by current reading and attendance at educational programs and unit conferences.

Required Skills and Education  

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing plus 4 years of field experience
• Certified General Nurse
• Excellent people skills, including the ability to listen.
• The ability to use initiative and solve problems
• Attention to detail
• The ability to deal with emotionally charged and pressured situations.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• IT skills and the ability to keep patient records up to date.
• Fluent in English and Arabic