Staff nurse
Faisal Polyclinic
Total years of experience :4 years, 0 Months
Responsible for providing a high standard of service to patients by dealing safely and promptly with their requirements.
Assisting dentists and other dental care professionals in the practice.
Careful sterilizing of dental instruments to ensure sterile conditions.
Ensuring that the dental surgery health and safety policy is adhered to.
Managing the clinic specialist dentist diary.
Taking notes from dentists dictation for a patients records.
Explaining to patients what their treatment entails.
Working at the reception of the clinic, welcoming patients, booking them in then directing them to the waiting room.
Making appointments.
Supervising trainee dental nurses.
Administrative duties like maintaining a patients' dental record.
Taking X-rays of patients and then using these to diagnose a patients' dental conditions
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Making models of patients' teeth.
Assisting dental care professionals with procedures such as filling cavities or performing root canals.
Preparing the surgery for dental treatment.
Operating Room
Prepares sterile field, instruments and sponges needed for operation
Identifies nursing needs of patient
Secure consent for operation
Assist patient in moving, maintaining proper alignment of patients body and utilizing good body mechanics
Assist surgeons in surgical procedures
Circulate in major and minor operations
Maintains the sterility of the sterile field
Do sponge counting during operation
Takes and record vital signs
Performs peripheral intravenous insertion aseptically
Carries out doctors legal orders
Reports observations to physician
Administers medication and observes any untoward patients reaction to medication
Teaches and directs non-professional nursing personnel
Administers blood transfusion
Charts accurately the medication and treatment given
Attends meeting and conferences
Post-Anesthesia Care Unit
Gives direct nursing care
Performs physical assessment
Identifies nursing needs of patients
Assist patient in moving, maintaining proper alignment of patients body and utilizing good body mechanics
Care of the immediate post-op patient to recover with epidural, spinal or general anesthesia
Takes and record vital signs
Reports observations to physician
Carries out doctors legal orders
Suction secretions as needed
Maintains patent airway and good tissue perfusion
Administers medication and observes any untoward reaction to medication
Administers blood transfusion
Providing safe and comfortable environment for the patient
Charts accurately the medication and treatment given
Delivery Room and Labor Room
• Primary nurse in the labor and delivery unit includes care for the mother and infant with full term and high risk deliveries (pre-eclampsia, hyperemesis gravidarum)
• Administers medication
• Assist with fetal monitoring, IV’s, and blood transfusions
• Reports observations to physician
• Assist during delivery
• Takes and records vital signs
• Carries out doctors legal orders
• Refers any untoward or danger signs of delivery
• Charts accurately the medications and treatment
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Gives direct nursing care
Performs physical assessment
Identifies nursing needs of neonate
Takes and records vital signs
Reports observations to physician
Carries out doctors legal orders
Suctions secretions as needed
Administers medication and observes any untoward reaction to medication
Providing safe and comfortable and environment for the neonate
Charts accurately the medication and treatment given