Senior Registered Nurse

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage clinical and non-clinical operations within their respective units in a shift, ensuring optimal resource allocation and utilization.
• Supervise and mentor nursing staff, providing guidance, support, and performance evaluations to foster professional development and high-quality patient care.
• 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 expedite 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 admission, transfer and discharge.
• Elicit comprehensive health histories.

• Deliver duties that focus on the protection, promotion, and optimization of the health of children from new-born age through young adulthood.
• Deliver care focused on patient and family-centred approaches.
• Educate mothers and families to protect the paediatric patient from injuries.
• Manage diseases (as part of an interdisciplinary team) to restore health and maximize comfort.
• Support children and families to adopt strategies to support self-care and physical and cognitive development.
• Administer prescribed medication and monitor the patient's progress.
• Assess growth patterns.
• Evaluate developmental milestones and educate parents about normal growth and development.

• Have an appropriate license to work as a registered nurse in the relevant regulatory health authority with all the qualifications and experience mandated.
• 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).
• Be able to communicate effectively in Arabic.

• Evidenced ability to work as part of an inter‑professional team.
• Organizational and administrative skills with which to use the electronic medical record platform for clinical documentation.