Registered Nurse - ER

NMC; Abu Dhabi Emirate; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Abu Dhabi seeks an Emergency Nurse responsible for coordinating patient care, providing immediate interventions in trauma situations, and administering treatments. The ideal candidate should have a strong understanding of various health conditions, experience in patient assessments, and skills in emergency protocols. This role involves working in high-pressure environments to stabilize patients and support their needs effectively.

Qualifications

• Must have experience in patient assessment and care coordination.
• Ability to perform essential life support as per regulatory standards.
• Knowledge of diagnostic tests and nursing practices.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for coordinating patient care and providing emotional support.
• Assess patients' needs and implement medical treatment plans.
• Administer medications and monitor patients for side effects.

Job description

Responsibilities

• 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 elevate 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, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, 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.

Emergency Nurse will:

• Provide care to patients in ambulatory, urgent, and emergent care settings

• Work in crises, they handle patients in trauma situations, suffering from injury or sever medical condition by providing immediate intervention to prevent imminent severe damage, and long-term disability or death

• Asses and identify patient’s condition, determine the case priority based on the patient’s needs assessment.

• Identify the best interventions to stabilize the patient and reduce pain intensity.

• Demonstration of sound decision-making in emergency scenarios based on patient conditions such as vital signs, patient presentation, and assessments.

• Assess, and manage episodic illnesses, injuries and acute exacerbations of chronic diseases.

• Provide ongoing assessments including observation, physical examination, laboratory/test results, and patient response to procedural intervention

• Engage in patient prioritization, triage, differential diagnosis, patient management, monitoring and appropriate consultation and in coordinating the transfer of care.

Understand aspects of diagnostic studies interpretation and the importance of non-pharmacological therapies.