Staff Nurse
Security Forces Hospital - Riyadh
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :11 years, 8 أشهر
• Assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care plans in consultation with healthcare professionals.
• Evaluating medical information, as well as providing direct and individualized bedside nursing care to pre-and post-surgery patients.
• Preparing, administering and recording prescribed medications.
• Changing dressings, inserting catheters, and starting IVs.
• Adjusting specialized medical equipment as needed, as well as interpreting and recording measurements.
• Monitoring patients' vitals and reporting adverse reactions to medications in a timely manner.
• Collaborating on discharge planning with the healthcare team.
• Answering questions and educating patients and their families on surgical procedures and post-surgery care.
• Maintaining and updating patient files, medical charts, and health records.
• Adhering to best nursing practices, standards, and protocols.
• Observe and assess patients
• Effect comprehensive nursing care plans for patients
• Administer treatments and medications
• Monitor and report symptoms and changes in patient status
• Collaborate with medical team on patient status
• Maintain complete and accurate patient records
• Prepare patients and assist with patient examinations and therapies
• Assist with diagnostic tests and interpret results
• Modify treatment plans were indicated
• Advise patients on health maintenance and preventative medicine
• Provide educational, emotional and psychological support to patients and family members
• Maintain a safe and clean working environment in compliance with healthcare procedures and regulations
• Adhere to infection-control protocols
• Follow medication administration and storage procedures and regulations
• Monitor and co-ordinate maintenance of equipment operation and inventory
• Check and maintain nursing supplies inventory
• Educate and instruct patients on home care needs
• Restores and promotes patient’s health by completing the nursing process.
• Collaborates with physicians and multidisciplinary team members.
• Provides physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families.
• Identifies patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with patients and their families.
• Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
• Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and hospital or regulatory standards.
• Resolves patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.
• Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
• Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols; medication administration and storage procedures; and controlled substance regulations.
• Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
• Maintains continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.
• Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
• Ensures operation of equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; calling for repairs; and evaluating new equipment and techniques.
• Maintains nursing supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops and participating in professional societies.
• Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information and participating in team problem-solving methods.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Record medical history and symptoms
• Collaborate with teams to plan for patient care
• Advocate for the health and wellbeing of patients
• Monitor patient health and record signs
• Administer medications and treatments
• Operate medical equipment
• Perform diagnostic tests
• Educate patients about management of illnesses
• Provide support and advice to patients
• Conduct physical exams.
• Take detailed health care histories
• Listen to patients and analyze their physical and emotional needs
• Coordinate care with other health care providers and specialists.
• Stay current with advances in health care options, medications, and treatment plans
• Draw blood, and perform other health-related testing
• Check a patient’s vital signs
• Gather and collect data from the patient or to the relatives of the patient likewise, assessment through taking initial vital signs, like temperature blood pressure reading, pulse oximetry, PR, RR etc.;
• Implementation of sorting patients in accordance of their needs and cases;
• Provide independent nursing procedures and first aids like, oxygenation, positioning, TSB, wound cleansing and others while the waiting for the doctors on duty for further medical intervention and evaluation.
• Provide emergency care procedures as per doctor’s order like IV insertion intramuscular injection, giving suppositories,
• Coordinates with other paramedical staff for other medical needs like laboratory and radiology department in case the patient is alone and needs further evaluation on his medical condition;
• Assist the doctor on any medical procedures like circumcision, suturing, incision and drainage and other minor surgical procedure that can be done in emergency area;
• Inform and educate the patient or the relatives about the doctor’s order like medication or other special order like laboratories and diet;
• Assist in transfer and recommendation as well as to provide ambulance health assistance in emergency cases that needs to be transfer from higher and more advance health institution,
This includes various hospital departments: OPD, OB, Pediatrics, Medicine and Surgical wards)
• Assist in the interpretation and implementation of hospital policies and objectives of patient’s/elderly general care;
• Take vital signs and other relevant information regarding complaints and inform the doctor on duty, thus to monitor the patient cautiously for the institution of nursing intervention as needed;
• Provide Medical assistance to the patients in giving oral and IV medication following the hospital procedures;
• Receives endorsement or take special note pertaining to pertinent information regarding general patients/elderly care;
• Documentation of all Nursing Intervention to a patient’s/elderly chart;
• Makes round with the outgoing nurses to assess the general condition of patient’s/elderly and the unit as a whole;
• Makes clinical round with the physician, assist in therapeutic and diagnostic procedure needed;
• Carries out doctor’s order intelligently, accurately and promptly;
• Provide an environment that is safe and conducive for therapeutic care
• Monitor patient’s vital sign base on doctor’s order.
Operational and Emergency Support Services
(Includes Emergency and Delivery)
• Assist with the Doctors and Staff Nurses during emergency operational procedures and treatment regimen like suturing, incision and drainage, cleaning and wound dressing, etc.;
• Accepts and assist patients fairly or according to triad or emergency protocol;
• Gather patient’s data and record accordingly and correctly or look for the old record of patient’s medical history of confinements or check-ups;
• Sort out and secure patient’s data on chart for proper record and to maintain patient’s right to privacy and confidentiality;
• Makes an accomplished Nursing Care Plan and other procedures effectively
• Performing IE on pregnant women in the absence of the doctor or midwives;
• Apply first aid while the doctor is not yet arriving like oxygenation, bandaging and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation;
• Assist the doctor in the delivery procedure for Normal Spontaneous Delivery
• Accomplished newborn care and Post-Partum care.
Community and Rural Health Service Support Services
• Assist with the Doctors and Staff Nurses in providing free consultations among patients who lives in remote areas;
• Assist with Doctors and Staff Nurses in the distributing free medicines during CVAC;
• Assist with the Midwives in administering vitamins and vaccines to the newly born babies.
Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) is a four-year program that includes general education, major, and professional nursing courses. From the first to the fourth year, clinical classes are embedded with a focus on nursing principles and related learning experiences (RLEs). The BSN program provides an intensive nursing practicum that will further develop and refine further nursing competencies to ensure achievement of the BSN program outcomes required of an entry level nurse. The BSN program is designed to prepare professional nurses to assume entry-level positions in hospital facilities and community settings. The professional nurse is capable of providing safe, humane, quality, and holistic care to individuals in varying age, gender, and health-illness status; healthy or at-risk families; population groups; and community; singly or in collaboration with other health care providers, to promote health, prevent illness, restore health, alleviate suffering, and provide end-of-life care.