Job Description

Responsibilities

General:

• Provides age-specific patient-centered care utilizing the nursing process:
  • Performs patient assessment using appropriate, problem-focused, and age-specific assessment techniques.
  • Performs continual critical care assessment of patient and family’s physical and psychological needs.
  • Involves the patient, significant others, and health care providers in the plan of care when appropriate.
  • Collaborates with a multi-disciplinary team to provide patient care.
  • Coordinates and plans critical care/clinical pathway, and prioritizes care, based on individual needs.
  • Revises the care plan as necessary.
  • Initiates appropriate transfer plan.
  • Recognizes subtle cues to anticipate potential problems.
  • Documents all relevant data in the medical record according to hospital/departmental standards.
  • Ensures availability and maintenance of supplies and equipment needed for the unit and patient care.
  • Performs clerical duties when needed.
  • Assumes responsibility for meeting Joint Commission International Accreditation (JCIA) required mandatory education (e.g. fire, safety, infection control and others).
  • Participates in staff meetings and unit committees/projects.
• Participates in developing and achieving unit goals.
• Maintains a safe environment for patients and staff.
• Performs safe handling and administrating of Narcotic/Controlled and Semi-Controlled Drugs and documentation as directed by policies and procedures.
• Ensures completion of unit competencies (i.e. pain management, and utilization of Emergency department devices).
• Maintains clinical and professional competency based on the latest research and established standards of practice.
• Completes yearly, the critical care nursing competencies (basic).
• Participates in unit-based Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) activities (data collection, CQI teams, incident reporting, customer complaint reporting, medication error reporting etc.).
• Participates in ongoing educational activities.
• Maintains mandatory educational requirements.
• Performs additional duties when required.

Unit Specific:

• Interprets arterial blood gas.
• Interprets basic Electrocardiogram (ECG).
• Monitors arterial pressure.
• Monitors central venous pressure.
• Performs chest, abdomen, and back burn care.
• Prepares Central Venous Access Devices (CVAD) for adults and pediatrics:
  • Sampling blood from central venous access catheter.
  • Flushing and locking the central venous access catheter.
  • Changing central venous catheter dressing.
  • Changing central venous catheter needless connector and line tubing.
• Prepares Implanted Venous Access Devices (IVAD) for adults and pediatrics:
  • Accessing implanted port.
  • Accessing implanted port (top entry).
  • Sampling blood from the implanted port.
  • Removing the non-coring needle from the implanted port.
• Prepares chest tubes:
  • Monitoring and caring for the chest tube drainage system.
  • Setting up chest tube drainage system.
• Conducts COVID-19 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) testing.
• Measures creatinine levels.
• Administers emergency medications to paediatrics.
• Performs intubation with direct visualization.
• Inserts and assists with intraosseous infusion device.
• Removes the intraosseous infusion device.
• Administers Intravenous (IV) alteplase for acute ischemic stroke.
• Measures ketone levels.
• Administers moderate sedation.
• Performs rapid strep test using point-of-care testing (POCT).
• Applies splints and casts.
• Cares for tracheotomy tubes:
  • Suctioning tracheostomy.
  • Managing tracheostomy tube cannula and stoma.
• Prepares mechanical ventilation during patient transport.
• Conducts triage using the Emergency Severity Index (ESI).
• Operates urine analysis machine.
• Uses defibrillator for pediatric patients:
  • Performing cardioversion.
  • Performing defibrillation.
  • Performing transcutaneous pacing.

For Pediatrics:

• Conducts aspiration precautions:
  • For child or adolescent
  • For children receiving enteral tube feedings
  • For infant
• Calculates pediatric fluid requirements.
• Conducts Implantable Venous Access Device (IVAD) for pediatrics:
  • Accessing implanted port.
  • Sampling blood from the implanted port.
  • Removing the non-coring needle from the implanted port.
• Monitors cardiopulmonary status in paediatrics.
• Prepares chest tubes in paediatrics:
  • Monitoring and caring for the chest tube drainage system.
  • Setting up chest tube drainage system.
  • Assisting with chest tube removal.
• Utilizes handheld resuscitation bags and masks in paediatrics.
• Conducts health history interviews and physical assessments in paediatrics.
• Manages infiltration and extravasation in paediatrics.
• Administers oxygen via nasal prongs to neonates.
• Administers nebulized drugs to paediatrics.
• Manages obstructed airways in children and infants.
• Samples blood from a peripherally inserted central catheter in paediatrics.
• Changes in dressing on the peripherally inserted central catheter in paediatrics.
• Manages seizures in paediatrics.
• Cares for pediatric tracheostomies:
  • Suctioning tracheostomy.
  • Changing tracheostomy ties.
  • Changing tracheostomy tube.

Preceptor’s Responsibilities (when applicable):

• Completes the Preceptor workshop and meets the criteria indicators for the preceptor role on the unit.
• Plans, implements and evaluates the individualized competency-based orientation in collaboration with the orientee, nurse manager, and clinical resource nurse.
• Provides appropriate feedback on time to orientee and Nurse Manager.
• Provides objective documentation to the nurse manager utilizing the American Hospital Dubai’s established standards of care (Competency List “Green Book and Blue Book”).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing (minimum of three (3) years full-time course duration) or
• Degree in Nursing (minimum two (2) years course duration) and Registration as a Registered Nurse from Canada, USA, UK, Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia.
• For UAE nationals graduates of UAE or non-UAE universities are exempted from the experience and clinical training requirements for the applied title. (UAE nationals must submit a copy of their birth certificate and the mother’s family book).
• Non-UAE national graduates from UAE universities are required to successfully complete six (6) months of clinical training post-graduation in an APS health facility (except for Registered and assistant Nurse titles).
• Must hold a valid License/Registration to practice in their home country and/or country of last employment (where applicable).
• Must hold a minimum of a valid Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification or others according to the scope of practice.
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) certification
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification – must be attained within 6 months of employment through the American Hospital Dubai’s course.
• Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC) certification preferred
• Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) certification preferred

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum of two (2) years of recent post-graduate experience in the Emergency Room.
• Knowledge of and ability to render care and services based on age, appropriateness and developmental needs of patients.
• Skills in the assessment of patient and family’s physical and psychological needs.
• Skills in coordination and planning of care and prioritizing care based on individual needs.