Staff Nurse - Labor & Delivery TP

American Hospital Dubai; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

American Hospital Dubai is seeking a skilled Labour and Delivery Unit nurse to provide age-specific patient-centered care, perform assessments, plan and implement nursing care, and coordinate with a multidisciplinary team to ensure safe outcomes.

Responsibilities include maintaining JCIA standards, completing mandatory education, and documenting care, while ensuring safe handling of narcotics and clinical competencies. UAE-licensed nurses preferred, with BLS certification and relevant experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in nursing is required (minimum 3 years full-time).
• RN registration from Canada, USA, UK, Ireland, SA, NZ, or Australia is required.
• Must hold a valid Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.

Responsibilities

• Provide age-specific patient-centered care using the nursing process.
• Perform patient assessment, planning, and evaluation of care.
• Coordinate with multidisciplinary team to deliver care.
• Maintain JCIA requirements and mandatory education.
• Handle narcotic/controlled drug documentation and administration.

Skills

Nursing assessment

Critical care

Family collaboration

Documentation

CQI participation

Medication safety

Education compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in nursing

RN registration/certification

Job description

Provides direct and indirect age-specific care for assigned patients in the Labour and Delivery Unit per scheduled shifts. Responsible for professional performance and safe patient care.The role encompasses nursing assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, evaluation, and care coordination for patients across the healthcare continuum involving families. Abides by the Joint Commission International (JCI) requirements, including but not limited to International Patient Safety Goals, national and international standards.

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:

• Performs nursing interventions/procedures per established standards of care (Competency List “Green Book”) policy and procedures including but not limited to:
  • Assisting with antepartum external cephalic version.
  • Conducting Apgar scoring.
  • Performing bladder catheterization during labour.
  • Assisting in an emergent cesarean birth.
  • Performing neonatal resuscitation in the delivery room.

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.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum of two (2) years of recent post-graduate experience inLabour and Delivery Unit.
• Knowledgeofandability torendercareandservices basedonage,appropriateness and developmental needs of patients.
• Skills in assessment of patient and family's physical and psychological needs.
• Skills in coordination and planning of care and prioritizing care based on individual needs.