Staff Nurse - OPD

Job Scope:

The staff nurse provides direct and indirect age specific care for assigned
patients in medical surgical nursing units per scheduled shifts. The staff
nurse is primarily responsible for professional performance and safe patient
care. The role encompasses nursing assessment, diagnosis, planning,
intervention, evaluation, and coordination of care for patients involving
families. It includes but not limited to, managing adult and pediatric
patients with medical and/or surgical cases, managing patients' pre and post
partum, pre and post surgeries. The staff nurse is accountable for clinical,
educational, quality, and fiscal patient care outcomes, and in accordance with
established institution's policies, procedures, guidelines, and standards of
practice. Participates in PI projects, and collaborates with other
professional disciplines to ensure effective and efficient patient care
delivery and the achievement of desired outcomes. Utilizes knowledge of human
development stages, and cultural diversity into the provision of patient care.
Abides by the accreditation requirements and international standards. Supports
the mission and vision of the Dar Al Shifa Hospital (DASH) and the Nursing
Department.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide age-specific patient-centered care utilizing the nursing process


• Provide patient and family education


• Assessing patient and family readiness and identifying learning needs.


• Leading/encouraging multidisciplinary approach for patient's discharge.


• Developing and implementing the teaching plan utilizing patient education manual.


• Evaluating the teaching-learning process.


• Documenting patient and family education.


• Perform patient assessment using appropriate, problem focused, and age-specific assessment techniques.


• Involve the patient, significant others, and health care providers in the plan of care when appropriate.


• Collaborate with other disciplines through multidisciplinary meetings and care conferences to facilitate patient care and operations.


• Analyze the assessment data, derive nursing interventions, set priorities according to patients needs, formulate a plan of care, implement and evaluate the outcome.


• Ensures patient privacy.


• Maintain confidentiality of patient information.


• Initiate appropriate discharge plan.


• Recognize subtle cues to anticipate potential problems.


• Document all relevant data in the medical record according to hospital/departmental standards.


• Ensure availability and maintenance of supplies and equipment needed for the unit and patient care.


• Keep all equipment ready for use.


• Follow Preventive Maintenance for unit equipments.


• Accountable for the use of patients' and hospital's resources.


• Accountable for the patient, the organization, the profession and self.


• Perform clerical duties when needed.


• Assume responsibility for meeting accreditation required mandatory education.

Qualifications and Experience:

• BSN


• Minimum Experience: ‎3 years.


• Knowledge: Medical, Surgical, pediatric, obstetrics & gynecology