Description
1. Promotes optimum patient health and well-being.
• Identifies, promotes and assists patients to understand major determinants of health.
• Educates patients on health risks factors.
• Teaches patients and families strategies to develop healthy living behaviour.
• Identifies and implements health promotion strategies for early detection and screening of communicable diseases.
• Reduces the risk of disease transmission through applying universal standard infection control principles.
• Identifies records and take appropriate action to reduce incidence of disease transmission.
• Uses the care process in the promotion of holistic patient health and well-being.
2. Promotes an environment that maximizes patient safety.
• Identifies environmental and behavioural factors which may compromise patient safety
• Identifies and implements appropriate actions to reduce risk and harm.
• Intervenes and follows-up on incidents to reduce likelihood of occurrence.
3. Promotes patient physiological and psychological integrity.
• Assesses, plans and manages nursing interventions to optimize outcomes of care for patients throughout the life span in various states of health and illness
• Implements general nursing care and comfort measures.
• Provides care for the pregnant woman from conception to birth and for the normal newborn.
• Provides care for acute and chronic conditions..
• Provides care for acute and chronic conditions of a child from birth to adolescence.
• Demonstrates evidence based practice in use of pharmacological agents in treatment.
• Demonstrates ability to accurately calculate drug doses for administration.
• Documents care and patient outcomes.
• Evaluates and manages nursing care, altering delivery and priorities according to patient needs and outcomes ensuring continuity of care.
4. Demonstrates professional behaviour when working with people.
• Provides nursing care that demonstrates respect for human rights.
• Recognizes the responsibility to work within the professional standards and ethical codes of practice.
• Protects the patient from risks, harm, abuse or neglect within the boundaries of nursing care.
• Demonstrates knowledge of policies and procedures that guide the practice.
• Recognizes and acts upon policies, procedures or orders that might put at risk a patient's therapeutic outcomes or are not of best practice standards.
• Advocates sensitively for patients’ rights based on current legislation and ethical principles.
• Ensures confidentiality of patient information.
• Demonstrates sensitivity to diversity in cultural and religious beliefs.
• Utilizes effective time management strategies to organize workload.
• Draws on evidence-based research to perform safe, effective and efficient nursing interventions whilst taking patient's preferences into consideration.
• Establishes and maintains professional boundaries with patients and members of the health care team.
• Recognizes limitations in own professional knowledge and skills and takes appropriate action.
• Assumes accountability for delegation of nursing care.
5. Upholds and contributes to the maintenance of professional nursing standards.
• Initiates and/or participates in programs and trainings that contribute to continual improvement in standards of care.
• Identifies scientific advances and uses technology as appropriate to enhance patient care.
• Demonstrates a standard of personal health which ensures that patient care is not compromised.
• Demonstrates the ability to self-regulate through ongoing reflection and assessment of competency to practice.
6. Actively contributes to collaborative working relationships with members of the interdisciplinary health care team.
• Establishes collaborative relationships with other members of the health care team to optimize patient outcomes.
• Identifies, reports and documents health care practices that may compromise patient care, privacy or dignity and take appropriate remedial action.
• Demonstrates respect for variations in competence and professional knowledge between members of a multidisciplinary health care team.
• Provides and seeks constructive feedback in and between members.
7. Demonstrates a commitment to development of self.
• Reflects upon and evaluates own nursing practice.
• Actively seeks new knowledge and information to ensure ongoing professional development and competency to practice.
• Participates in ongoing professional development activities.
• Seeks and acts upon constructive feedback from other health care professionals.
• Maintains record of all learning and professional development activities attended.
• Maintains current license to practice as an outcome of self-regulation.
8. Demonstrates commitment in the development of others.
• Collaborates and shares professional knowledge with others.
• Acts as a preceptor and/or mentor to others new to the profession or less experienced.
Other (Specific duties and responsibilities):
• Observes and documents patient condition and reaction to drugs and treatment and reports the same to the physician and family.
• Ensures proper cleaning and equipment maintenance.
• Prepares the patient and equipment needed and aids physician during examination, treatment and testing at home.
• Screens patients for symptoms, problems and other appropriate information; records new patient information including health history and allergies to medications in the patient chart.
• Documents current medications, health problems and allergies.
• Administers medication to patients only on direct physician order.
• Ensure adherence to the scheduled appointment and follow ups at the referred facility.
• Keeps patient room clean and orderly; restocks supplies and medications as necessary.
• Monitoring and inventory of supplies and medicines in the department/unit.
• Assist patient in activities of daily living including but not limited to toileting, getting in and out of bed, transporting and turning of patient.
• Provide patient with independence, promote well-being while still remaining under supervised care.
• Providing health education to patients regarding their condition and prevention of complication
Qualifications:
• Bachelor degree in nursing or
Associate degree in Nursing from Canada or USA with minimum two (2) years course duration and Successful completion of the National exam: USA: NCLEX - RN Canada: Licensing Exam, or;
Diploma in Nursing and Midwifery of minimum three and half (3 ½) years course duration, or;
Diploma in Nursing of minimum three (3) years course duration
• Not less than 2 years clinical experience post qualification or;
Not less than 2 year clinical experience in the assigned area of practice
(Note; Experience requirement waived for graduates of UAE nursing
colleges/universities after completion of internship)
• Valid current DOH license
Valid current license from the country of origin
• Valid Basic Life Support Certificate Accredited by American Heart Association
Other Requirements (Knowledge, skills and abilities):
• Knowledge of current and established professional concepts, principles and practices.
• Expertise in clinical area of practice and skills required to provide care.
• Knowledge and understanding of the diverse cultural customs and religious beliefs of the population being cared for.
• Knowledge of all the Infection Control practices of the United Arab Emirates.
• Ability to use critical thinking, problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Ability to organize patient care demands and to set priorities.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with all members of the healthcare team including patients and families.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated and ongoing commitment to professional development.
• Ability to perform duties in a professional and courteous manner.
• Knowledge of exam, diagnostic and treatment procedures at home care setting.
• Knowledge of medications commonly used and their effect on patients
• Knowledge of common safety hazards and precautions to establish a safe work environment
• Skilled in taking vital signs.
• Skilled in maintaining records and writing reports.
• Skilled in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with patients, medical staff and the workers.
• Skilled in using basic computer functions.