Registered Nurse - LTC

Responsibilities

• Provide and coordinate patient care, educate patients and the public about health conditions, and provide 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. 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 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 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 Basic Life Support.
• Prepare patients for medical examination and treatment.
• Administer medications and monitor patients for side effects and reactions.
• Administer treatments such as IV fluids or blood products, and monitor patients for reactions.
• Provide wound care management.
• Assist in medical procedures, invasive or non‑invasive, as needed.
• Facilitate safe patient admission, transfer, and discharge.
• Support execution of business continuity plans by maintaining essential nursing services during emergencies, following established protocols to ensure patient safety, and collaborating with the healthcare team to sustain operational effectiveness.
• Actively participate in performance improvement and continuous quality improvement.
• Ensure competence in pain management.

• Holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from an accredited institution in their home country.
• Minimum of 2 years of clinical experience, including recent assignment in ICU, Critical Care, long‑term care unit, or equivalent experience within home‑care settings in the same cluster.
• Have an appropriate license to work as a registered nurse in the relevant regulatory health authority with all the qualifications and experience the mandates require.
• Manage their own professional re‑licensure.
• Hold a valid American Heart Association Basic Life Support Provider card.
• Be willing to work across departments when necessary.
• Be able to communicate clearly and effectively in English (spoken and written).

• Evidenced ability to work as part of an inter‑professional team.
• Organizational and administrative skills to use the electronic medical record platform for clinical documentation.
• Be able to communicate effectively in Arabic.