Staff Nurse

Roles and Responsibilities:

The Staff Nurse is responsible for providing clinical care to a defined group of patients and ensuring the maintenance of high standards of patient care within the unit during their span of duty. The post holder is responsible for assessment of care needs of patients, planning programmers of care, implementation and evaluation of these programmers without direct supervision.

The Staff Nurse will be working independently/autonomously and at times without direct supervision, accountable for their own professional practice. Ensuring the safety and well-being of patients and always working in a manner that promotes the patient's privacy, dignity and cultural beliefs.

This includes prioritizing the care needs of patients and appropriately allocating staff maintaining an awareness of the progress of each patients’ care.

Responsible for the implementation and delivery of age-appropriate patient care in the assigned area of practice congruent with the Mission, Vision and Values of Hospital. Ensuring adherence to the Professional Code of Conduct and Scope of Practice of the Ministry of Health Saudia Arabia.

Working in conjunction with the Charge Nurse, this position plays a crucial role in delivering day-to-day levels of excellence in service provision of care across the Wards and Departments.

Key responsibilities of the role:

• During some periods you will have management responsibility for being in-charge of the Wards/Department. This will involve supervising junior members of staff. In the event of this you will be required to monitor and review staff still mix in accordance with patient dependency and acuity, utilize available information to align staffing and workload, and communicate with Senior Nursing staff as required.
• The post holder will be a key member in relation to the development of practice service standards ensuring they are consistently met.
• Acting as a role model, delivering high clinical and operational performance standards, by working effectively as part of the team.
• Facilitates effective patient flow, utilizing bed capacity and staffing resources appropriately. Communicates with all unit(s) / departments as appropriate, to maximize efficiency and to expedite the admission, transfer and discharge process.
• Collaborates with personnel from non-nursing departments/disciplines regarding issues that may negatively impact patient care; facilitate solutions as needed.
• Provides leadership in critical thinking, conflict management and problem solving.
• Demonstrate skills and competencies in continual assessment of planning, implementing and evaluating patient care.
• Performs nursing interventions/procedures in accordance with established standards of care, policies and procedures. This may involve assisting physicians undertaking diagnostic or therapeutic interventions.
• Identifies complications and deviations from the norm and takes appropriate action.
• Maintains accurate and thorough documentation and communication following Identify, Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation (ISBAR) principles.
• Completes nursing documentation timely and accurately, ensuring that quality standards of nursing documentation are maintained according to Hospital policy.
• Maintains required nursing competencies and competencies in the use of all medical equipment including but not limited to, materials necessary for the resuscitation and stabilization of patients.
• Safely administer medication according to Hospital policy. Document medication administration accurately, according to protocols. Understands actions of medication and contraindications, evaluates patient’s response, identifies side effects and initiates appropriate action.
• Experience in the management of ventilated patients either in an acute care or long-term ventilated facility.
• Understand and able to explain the nursing department’s Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• To participate in Department/Hospital-wide quality improvement initiatives including implementation and evaluation of action plans and quality improvement projects.
• To work with the Charge Nurse in ensuring safe nursing and clinical practice and that Hospital follows evidence based international practice and accreditation standards.
• To assist the Charge Nurse on Quality Assurance and Regulation to ensure delivery of Hospital Risk Strategy and Clinical Risk Training Strategy. To participate in programmers and initiatives to reduce and manage risk and harm to patients.
• To assist in serious incident investigations as required and contribute to the response to recommendations and lessons to be learned from investigations and external and regulatory reviews where nursing has come under scrutiny.
• Uses information technology to access, transmit and produce information as necessary eg. Incident reporting system.
• Contributes to product evaluation at unit levels and participates in trials related to new product lines as appropriate.
• Acts as a preceptor to less experienced staff as required.
• Actively participates in organizational change in a constructive manner.
• Actively participates in the Clinical Competency Programmer.
• Actively participates in the process for ensuring the organization achieves and maintains JCIA status.
• Engages in health promotion activities in the organization and community.
• Responsible to educate patients/families as per their needs and to implement their whole role regarding patient/family education process as per hospital’s policy including documentation in the patient medical record.
• Provides health promotion and health teaching thru methods appropriate to a patients’ developmental level, learning needs, readiness and ability to learn, language preference, culture and situations.
• Involves the patient/families in plan of care and respects patients/families regarding their goals and choices of patient care.

Qualifications, Certifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing or Diploma in Nursing
• Current and valid license to practice Nursing from home country of qualification required
• Current Basic and Advanced Cardiac Life Support training certification
• Registered as Nurse Specialist from Saudi Commission for Health Specialties is advantageous.
• Minimum two (2) years post qualification direct clinical experience in a hospital setting. (Saudi New graduates are exempted)
• International accreditation experience is an advantage.
• Middle Eastern experience is an advantage.