Staff Nurse - Medical Surgical Unit

Responsibilities

• Provides direct and indirect age‑specific care for assigned patients in medical‑surgical nursing units per scheduled shifts.
• Performs nursing assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, evaluation, professional performance, and coordination of care for patients across the healthcare continuum involving families.
• Provides patients with medical and/or surgical cases, clinical, educational, quality, and fiscal patient care outcomes as per American Hospital Dubai policies, procedures, guidelines, Professional Practice Model and standards of practice.
• Utilizes the nursing process to perform patient assessment using appropriate problem‑focused and age‑specific assessment techniques.
• Conducts continual critical care assessment of patient and family physical and psychological needs.
• Involves patients, significant others, and health‑care providers in the plan of care when appropriate.
• Collaborates with a multidisciplinary team to provide patient care and coordinates and plans critical care clinical pathway, prioritizing care based on individual needs.
• Revises the care plan as necessary and initiates appropriate transfer plans.
• Recognizes subtle cues to anticipate potential problems and 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 and assumes responsibility for meeting Joint Commission International Accreditation (JCIA) required mandatory education (e.g., fire safety, infection control).
• Participates in staff meetings, unit committees, projects, and developing and achieving unit goals.
• Completes additional duties when required and maintains a safe environment for patients and staff.
• Performs safe handling, drawing, and administrating narcotic controlled drugs and documentation as directed by policies and procedures.
• Ensures completion of unit competencies (e.g., pain management and utilization of emergency department devices) and maintains clinical and professional competency based on the latest research and established standards of practice.
• Completes yearly critical care nursing competencies (basic) and 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 and maintains mandatory educational requirements.
• Develops individualized care plans based on the nursing diagnosis with updated revisions according to evaluation and re‑assessment findings.
• Considers activities of daily living (e.g., hygiene needs) in daily care planning and sets priorities and plans implementation of patient care.
• Ensures documentation of discharge planning that is addressed on admission, ongoing, and as care plans are modified; completes discharge and transfer procedures in a timely and complete manner.
• Provides accurate, complete, and prompt reports on patient care conditions and responses to treatment utilizing the standardized SBAR (Situation‑Background‑Assessment‑Recommendation).
• Collaborates effectively as a multidisciplinary team member and ensures nursing documentation is informative, complete, accurate, concise, and legible, following American Hospital Dubai and JCIA standards and reflecting the nursing process from assessment through evaluation.
• Works in other areas within the hospital when assigned within the scope of practice and maintains clinical and professional competency based on the latest research and established standards of practice.
• Completes all core competencies for nursing as well as applicable unit‑specific competencies within prescribed timelines.
• Demonstrates awareness and knowledge of infection control, pain management, and wound care practices and standards.
• Reports and documents as directed in the relevant policies and procedures.
• Understands responsibilities of safe handling and administration of narcotic controlled drugs and documentation as directed by policies and procedures.
• Provides support for leadership, encourages team decisions…