Our Nursing Vision: At NMC Healthcare, we are committed to providing clinical excellence through safe, compassionate, and individualized care to every patient, every time.
Our Nursing Mission: To exemplify clinical excellence, every NMC nurse will seek to:
- Do the right thing
- Be the patient’s advocate
- Be open and transparent
- Deliver safe, compassionate care
- Recognize the uniqueness of each patient
- Contribute to an outstanding patient’s experience
- Engage with and contribute to, a learning culture
- Lead and influence changes in healthcare
Our Nursing Values: We will achieve this through our core values:
- Safety
- Excellence
- Ethics
- Trust
- Collaboration
- 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 and 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.
- Competent with all the mandatory and unit specific competencies supported and assigned on the Elsevier platform to ensure adherence to evidence Based practices.
- Demonstrate proficiency in emergency procedures, equipment, and protocols relevant to the department
- Participate in ongoing programs and certification to support professional growth and maintain clinical competency.
- Comply with unit Scope of Service.
- Complete care and safety of allocated neonates.
- Able to care critically ill, unconscious, or ventilated neonates
- Accurate monitoring of vital signs, hemodynamics, and oxygenation.and recording of patient condition.
- Report any abnormality in patient condition immediately to the medical staff and escalate as and when required.
- Competent in all aspects of neonatal nursing care.
- Assist to resuscitate an asphyxiated newborn.
- Consult and cooperate with medical staff on the care of the mother and baby.
- Care for relatives’ need and emotions through stressful situation and bereavement.
- Perform duties based on professional ethics, assuring privacy and maintaining confidentiality.
- Safe custody and administration of drugs/narcotics as per hospital policy.
- Educate the family regarding the growth and development, milestones, feeding, disease, medication, pain management etc. and according to the identified individual need, provide educational materials if available.
- Promote and teach breastfeeding.
- Perform competency in point of care testing and ensure quality requirements.
- Able to handle all equipments in the unit
- Ensure all equipment is maintained in good working order, reporting any fault to Nurse Manager/Engineering.
- Ensure complete ward requirements, stock verification and inventories
- Recognize and respond promptly to code situations (e.g., Code Blue).
- Maintain detailed and accurate documentation in the EMR (Electronic Medical Record)and physical flow charts
- Maintaining Unit specific and general nursing Competencies by Elsevier
- 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 and on call 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.