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