ER Staff Nurse
Al Jazeera Hospital
Total years of experience :4 years, 4 Months
Staff Nurse/RN2 (Emergency Room) Al Jazeera Hospital
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
December 22, 2011 - February 08, 2014
Job summary:
- To assess client’s needs, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care in collaboration with health care team members.
Principal duties:
• Performs a variety of supportive and technical nursing skills and utilizes a range of equipments when carrying out specific medical and nursing performance of specific treatments, monitoring techniques and other diagnostic, therapeutic, and supportive measures.
• Initiates and performs a range of nursing measures based on patient's needs related to physical and mental comforts, positioning and mobilization, nutrition and hydration, bowel and bladder elimination, care of the skin and wounds and support of respiration, hygiene, communication and other physical and mental functions.
• Attend patients assigned under his/her care all the time and only under exceptional circumstances should endorse his/her patients who can do so.
• Escorting patients during inter and intra hospital transfer.
• Receive full endorsement/handover for patients assigned under her care at the beginning of her duty and give full endorsement/ handover about patients to next shift.
• Plan nursing care management and anticipate possible complications that may arise for this particular patient and take immediate corrective actions if any complications happen.
• Do investigations decided for patient assigned under his/her care in correct way and proper time with follow up of investigation results and immediate notification to the concerned physician, and documentation.
• Revise the list of medications for the patient in every duty by the responsible nurse for any medication unavailability and inform the concerned medical staff for proper management.
• Take necessary precautions for any medications given to the patient.
• Careful reading of the drug leaflet and follow doctor's instructions.
• Submit notification for any drug side effects, adverse reaction or medication error to concerned consultant and document in patient record.
• Strictly follow policy for restricted drugs
• Proper handling of department equipments usage (Cleaning, disinfection, and maintenance and storage) with application of all safety measures.
• Assist medical staff in every procedure whenever required.
• Adhere to infection control policy.
• Responsible to keep area around patient clean and tidy all the time.
• Maintain confidentiality of all patients/staff communications.
• Assist with the discharge procedure, including discharge instructions.
• Assist through interpretation in the presentation of in-service and educational programs.
• Perform other applicable tasks and duties assigned within the realm of his/her knowledge, skills and abilities.
• Rotate on all duty shifts as instructed by Unit Nurse Manager/ Nursing Supervisor.
• Participates in assessing, planning and preparing for the educational needs of patients and family members.
Areas of Exposure:
>OB ward
>GYNE ward
>Delivery Room
• Do proper assessment to pregnant mothers, plan care and implement proper actions during labor phase. Assist the mother before and after the birth of the child in many areas including pain management, deep breathing exercises, listening and support the mothers in expressing emotions and concerns, monitoring the mother during pregnancy, monitoring fetal heart rate and progress of labor.
• Give medications to patients as per doctor’s order.
• Do newborn care.
• Educate mothers about family planning program and the importance of breastfeeding.
• Works directly with the surgeons during a cesarean delivery by passing instruments, etc, to the physicians.
• Manages patient care in the Operating Room during a cesarean delivery.
• Properly documents nursing actions given to the patients.
• Carry out doctor’s order.
• Transcribing meds to medication sheet.
• SUTURING SKILLS TRAINING FOR PERINEAL LACERATION
->January 7, 2011 - April 4, 2011
>Health Center
>Community
• Performs counselling/dispense commodities for Family Planning.
• Performs consultation/ check up for pre-natal/post natal/ gives advices and TT injections.
• Performs immunization to 0-1 year old children.
• Evaluates 0-5 year old children in CARI cases.
• Interviews/admission of TB patients/ gives advices/ instructions.
• Gives lecture in Health Class/ TB weekly seminar.
• Assists special DOH/CHO Health Programs.