Registered Nurse - Intensive Care Unit - Royal

Job description / Role

Category:
Nursing and Midwifery

Speciality:
Critical Care/ ITU

Location:
Riyadh

Hospital:
We are hiring for the #1 ranked hospital in The Middle East. Our client Hospital is a 985 bedded Magnet Accredited Tertiary referral Hospital. Contact us today for an information and application pack. We will guide you through the recruitment and relocation process.

Description:

Patient Care Unit/Area:
- D2/Royal Intensive Care Unit

Number of Beds:
- 2 Suites/2 ICU beds

Nurse Patient Ratio:
- 2:1

Scope of Service:
- This unit provides acute and intensive care for medical and surgical VIP patients aged 14 years and above.
- Medical conditions requiring intensive care include patients who respond to cardio-respiratory arrest resuscitation, patients with one or more system failure who need observation and/or active management such as patients with circulatory failure requiring massive volume expansion and/or vasoactive medications and invasive monitoring, patients with respiratory failure who require supportive measures such as endotracheal intubation with mechanical ventilation.
- Patients with CNS instability such as status epilepticus/increased ICP who require active management.

Frequent Procedures/Services/Functions:
The following diagnostic and therapeutic modalities are utilized to facilitate patient care:

- Nursing process (ongoing multi-system physical and psychosocial assessment, planning, intervention, education, and evaluation)
- Invasive hemodynamic monitoring
- Mechanical Ventilation
- Cardiac Monitoring
- Hemodialysis
- Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy
- IV Therapy
- Fluid and electrolyte balance and replacement
- Blood and blood component administration
- Airway management
- Skin and respiratory care
- Pain management, Patient Controlled Analgesia, Epidural Analgesia
- Administration of pharmacological agents
- Emergency resuscitation procedures
- Management of postoperative drains and wound care
- Safety management
- Infection Control
- Chemotherapy
- Psychosocial care
- Plasmapheresis
- Tracheostomy care

Hours of Operation:
- 24 hours per day

Criteria for Admission to Service:
- Eligibility criteria that reflect the need for active intensive treatment are used for admission.

Staffing Plan:
- Number and Mix of Staff
- Unit staffing is assessed on a shift-by-shift basis
- Staff is assigned by the RN charge nurse according to patient needs and staff competency based on the following criteria
- Complexity of patient's condition/needs and corresponding required nursing care.
- Dynamics of patients status, including the frequency with which the need for specific nursing care activities change
- Complexity of assessment required by the patients condition
- Technology required to provide patient care
- Degree of supervision required by each nursing staff member based on his/her previously assessed level of competence
- Availability of supervision appropriate to the assessed and current competence of nursing staff member
- Relevant infection control and safety issues
- Age of patient/experience and competence of nursing staff
- Continuity of care
- Method of Adjusting to Staffing Variances
- When scheduled staffs are more than what is needed for adequate coverage on the unit, personnel may be temporarily reassigned to other areas they are qualified to work within critical care.
- When more staff are needed than what was scheduled the head nurse/charge nurse collaborates with the supervisor and if no one is available in-house to temporarily reassign into the unit, the head nurse/charge nurse calls off duty nurses to determine if they are available to work overtime.

How Are In Services/Continuing Education Programs Provided To Maintain Staff Competency?
Mechanisms in place to provide in services/ continuing education are as follows:

- FYI ( News Letter)
- Staff Meetings
- Educational Boards
- Unit In services by Clinician and other Disciplines
- Classes/ Workshops offered by NE&R ( nursing Education and Research)
- Articles posted
- Daily Physician Rounds
- Physician / Nurse Communication about specific patients
- Nurse to Nurse informal sessions at the bedside
- Daily Physicians /Nurse patient care plan meetings from 4 -5 pm Sat-Tues
- Outreach Program
- Nursing Grand Rounds
- Methods to determine needs for education and training include, but are not limited to identification of opportunity to improve through Performance monitoring, patient care events, staff requests, physician input, patient outcome monitoring, new equipment introduced to the unit, and unusual diagnosis admitted.

Method Of Communication With Other Departments/Programs:

- Internal and External Methods of Communication Internal department communication generally occurs through one of the following methods:
- Face to face conversations
- Staff Meetings
- Collaborative Practice Meetings
- Bulletin Boards
- FYI
- Meeting Minutes
- Shift Reports
- Telephone and telephone voice mail
- E- Mail /Fax
- Mailings
- Inter Committee Communication

Departmental Managers and staff communicate directly with other departments through the following methods:

- Face to face conversations
- Telephone and telephone voice mail
- E -Mail / Fax
- Requisitions
- Interdisciplinary committees
- Memos
- Collaborative Meetings

Describe Collaborative Relationships with Other Departments:

- The registered nurse co-ordinates patient care with all disciplines.
- Collaborative team meetings are held with other disciplines on a regular basis. Communication of orders generally occurs through the medical records, but also Fax machines and telephone system are used on occasion for specific needs. Person-to-person communication is frequently used for interdepartmental problem solving.
- Daily Ward rounds are attended by all disciplines involved in direct patient care such as the Pharmacist and Respiratory Therapist,Neuro Surgery, Acute Pain Service,Dietician,and Physiotherapy. Xray rounds are done daily.
- Weekly Rounds are done by Infectious Diseases, Social Worker, Physiotherapy and Dietician. Patient/Family Conferences held as necessary.

Goals of the Department:

- Deliver high quality culturally sensitive care in a cost-effective manner
- Increase staff participation in educational programs
- Maintain and improve collaborative approach to patient care
- Continue to develop quality improvement programs within the unit
- Develop Clinical Pathways to reduce variation in the processes and outcomes of care
- Improve quality of care by reviewing and implementing research , evidence-based practice and best practice approaches.

Benefits:

- Generous tax-free income.
- Lucrative benefits package to include free fully furnished accommodation, free healthcare, free flights and 54 days paid leave per year.
- Other benefits +++

Requirements

Requirements:

- Registered Nurse with current nursing license from country of origin
- Two years recent acute care nursing experience

About the Company

Professional Connections International Healthcare Recruitment Agency

Professional Connections, often referred to as Profco, is an international healthcare recruitment specialist. Profco is working to help placing credentialed nurses, doctors and allied health professionals in exciting opportunities with leading hospitals around the world. International assignments are a great way for nurses and other healthcare professionals to broaden their experience and to see how healthcare is delivered in other countries, while at the same time enhancing their career prospects as they gain experience in different parts of the world.