Senior Nurse-Arabic

JOB PURPOSE/SUMMARY:

Senior nurses play a unique role in the delivery of high quality care. Senior Nurses are experts in evidence-based practice in mental health and addiction. In addition to providing direct patient care, the senior nurses engage in teaching, mentoring, consulting, research, management and systems improvement. They are able to adapt their practice to work across settings, and influence outcomes by providing expert consultation to all care providers and by implementing improvements in health care delivery systems. Senior nurses provide expert advice related to psychiatric/mental health and SUD conditions or treatment pathways. They focus on improving patient care and developing services.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Clinical Practice

• Provide skilled safe, holistic, culturally competent, person-centered nursing care to patients, families, community, and society, in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team.
• Deliver nursing care and practice embedding Naufar Center nursing Scope of Practice as the ethical and professional framework alongside consideration of the socio-cultural needs of patients, families, communities, and society.
• Support complex patients contributing to MDT in decision making relating to treatment planning and interventions offered.
• Maintain and demonstrate clinical competence in all aspects of care provided to patients on specific unit.
• Develop, implement, evaluate, revise, and provide input to the patients’ treatment plan and provide care according to the plan of care.
• Use communication skills to ensure that other members of the health care team and the patient remain fully informed.
• Perform and document a comprehensive patient assessment including but not limited to medical history, physical, psychosocial emotional, ethnic, cultural and spiritual assessment of the patient’s health status.
• Formulate differential diagnoses through the integration of the patient health information and evidence-informed practice.
• Initiate appropriate referrals to other members of the health care team based on assessment and referral guideline.
• Develop or contribute to the long-term care plan in collaboration with the patient/family and the health care team, and document as part of an interdisciplinary plan of care.
• Provide direct, specialized, comprehensive care, emphasizing health promotion, patient advocacy, disease prevention and collaborative management strategies to positively affect health outcomes.

Education, learning and development

• The senior nurse acts as a preceptor, mentor, role model, and coach to nursing colleagues, learners, other healthcare team members, and students.
• Collaborates with individuals, groups, and educators to identify and address specific learning needs for patients, families, and other healthcare professionals.
• Provides and promotes educational programs within the Naufar Center and beyond.
• Contributes to the formal and informal education and professional development of learners and colleagues.
• Facilitates and coordinates learning opportunities.
• Seeks out and participates in educational activities related to the nursing scope of practice.
• Maintains continuing education as per QCHP licensing requirements.
• Engages in teaching student nurses, practicing nurses, and inter professional colleagues.
• Contributes to the evolution of the profession through participation in professional organizations.
• Demonstrates a commitment to maintaining competence through continued personal and professional development.
• Promotes and supports professional development through individualized career planning.
• Undertakes presentations within the clinical environment.
• Promotes positive orientation and precepting processes.

Quality, Safety, Service Excellence

• Ensure, monitor and maintain infection prevention and control measures, ensuring work areas are clean, safe and sanitary through auditing.
• Use communication skills to ensure MDT and the patient remain fully informed.
• Able to motivate others, develop relationships and coordinate responses to prospective patients and external agencies in the pursuit of expediting admission and delivery of care.
• Deliver nursing care and practice embedding the senior nurse scope of Practice as the ethical and professional framework alongside consideration of the sociocultural needs of patients, families, communities and society.
• Ensure nursing practice meets organizational quality and safety standards and guidelines and participate in continuous quality improvement.
• Delegate and provide supervision to team members according to their competence and scope of practice.

Leadership and Management

• Exhibit leadership qualities and manage nursing care safely, efficiently, and ethically.
• Ensure nursing practice meets organizational quality and safety standards and guidelines and participate in continuous quality improvement.
• Delegate and provide supervision to team members according to their competence and scope of practice.
• Demonstrate commitment to the development of other members in the healthcare team.
• Assume responsibility for own professional development through lifelong learning to ensure continued competence and performance improvement.
• Enable and provide information on maintaining and optimizing health and maximizing self-care.
• Accept accountability for own actions and decision-making and for the related outcome.
• Provide guidance and clinical supervision for an assigned number of nursing staff.
• Assist the Head Nurse with the annual staffing plan, unit annual operational plan, staff developmental plans, and staff annual performance reviews.
• Assume responsibility for staffing and scheduling personnel ensuring that assignments reflect appropriate utilization of staff, appropriate skill mix, and staff competence.
• Cover the Head Nurse duties during absence and leave as needed.

Research and Improvement

• Integrate evidence and research findings into clinical practice.
• Use data systems to enhance the quality and delivery of patient care.
• Use research, evaluation, service improvement and audit findings to enhance the quality of patient care and protect the rights of those participating.
• Promote the development, critical analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of evidence-based findings.
• Identify research opportunities.
• Identify and implement new research/evidence-based treatments to improve patient care.
• Act as a change agent through knowledge translation and dissemination of new knowledge that may include formal presentations, publication, informal discussions and the development of best practice guidelines and policies.
• Analyze research findings and other evidence for their potential application to clinical practice.

ESSENTIAL Job Requirements:

Education:

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing or Mental Health Nursing

Certifications/Licensure:

• Valid Primary license from the country of origin (if applicable)
• Eligible for license from the Licensing authority in the State of Qatar to practice Healthcare Profession.
• Up-to date CPD in relevant areas.

Experience:

• 5 years of experience in Nursing includes at least three-year experience in mental health or Addiction.
• "0 experience" for Qataris and residents of Qatar who graduates from Qatar institutions and successfully completed the internship.
• 2 years of experience in clinical supervisory role.
• 2 years of experience in running group sessions.

Language Skills:

• English: Fluent in spoken and written English language.
• Arabic: Fluent in spoken and written Arabic language.