Registered Nurse - Emergency and Casualty

NMC Healthcare is one of the largest private healthcare networks in the United Arab Emirates. Since 1975, it has provided high quality, personalised, and compassionate care to its patients and is proud to have earned the trust of millions of people in the UAE and around the world.

NMC’s network is made up of 85 medical facilities, including JCI-accredited multi-specialty hospitals, medical centres, community clinics, day surgery centres, fertility clinics, home health services, and long-term care facilities. It employs over 12,000 people and serves over 5.5 million patients every year.

Job Summary:

Responsible for delivering comprehensive, patient-centered nursing care through assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of individualized care plans. Collaborates closely with physicians, allied health professionals, patients, and families to ensure safe, effective, and compassionate care across the patient journey. Performs systematic assessments, monitors vital signs and clinical status, administers medications and treatments, assists with medical procedures, and responds to emergencies within scope of practice. Promotes patient education, safety, and health maintenance while maintaining clinical competence and supporting smooth admission, transfer, and discharge processes.

Responsibilities:

• Provide care to patients in ambulatory, urgent, and emergent care settings
• Work in crises, they handle patients in trauma situations, suffering from injury or sever medical condition by providing immediate intervention to prevent imminent severe damage, and long-term disability or death
• Asses and identify patient’s condition, determine the case priority based on the patient`s needs assessment.
• Identify the best interventions to stabilize the patient and reduce pain intensity.
• Demonstration of sound decision-making in emergency scenarios based on patient conditions such as vital signs, patient presentation, and assessments.
• Assess, and manage episodic illnesses, injuries and acute exacerbations of chronic diseases.
• Provide ongoing assessments including observation, physical examination, laboratory/test results, and patient response to procedural intervention
• Engage in patient prioritization, triage, differential diagnosis, patient management, monitoring and appropriate consultation and in coordinating the transfer of care.
• Understand aspects of diagnostic studies interpretation and the importance of non-pharmacological therapies.
• Be responsible for providing and coordinating patient care, educating patients and the public about various health conditions, and providing advice and emotional support to patients and their family members.
• Assess and identify patients' needs and implement and monitor the patient's medical plan and treatment. They will work with a team of physicians and other health care specialists or allied health in various settings.
• Perform systematic patient assessment, re-assessment and collect pertinent data about the patient’s health or situation.
• Understand and analyse the assessment information and data.
• Determine actual and potential nursing diagnoses, problems, and issues.
• Define the predicted and expected outcomes of the patient’s planned care.
• Create and evaluate patient care plans with the interprofessional team, in collaboration with the patient and patient's bystanders.
• Record vital signs, recognize, address and escalate all abnormalities.
• Maintain and update technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice.
• Employ strategies to promote patients’ health and a safe environment.
• Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory examinations.
• Perform essential life support as per regulatory requirements and scope such as but not limited to Basic Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Neonatal Resuscitation etc.
• Prepare patients for medical examination and treatment.
• Administer medications and monitor patients for any side effects and reactions.
• Administer treatments such as IV fluids or blood products and monitor patients for any reactions.
• Provide wound care management.
• Assist in medical procedures invasive or non-invasive as needed.
• Facilitate the process of safe patient`s admission, transfer and discharge.

Education & Qualification:

Essential: the post holder must

• Have an appropriate license to work as a registered nurse in the relevant regulatory health authority with all the qualifications and experience these mandates.
• Manage their own professional re-licensure.
• Hold a valid American Heart Association Basic Life Support Provider card.
• Be willing to work across departments when necessary.
• Be able to communicate clearly and effectively in English (spoken and written)

DESIRABLE: The post holder should have :

• Evidenced ability to work as part of an inter-professional team.
• Organizational and administrative skills with which to use the electronic medical record platform for clinical documentation.
• Be able to communicate effectively in Arabic