Registered Nurse – ER (Child and Maternity)

Job Description

Job Description

•    Be responsible for providing and coordinating patient care, educating patients and the public about various health conditions, and providing advice and emotional support to patients and their family members.
•    Assess and identify patients’ needs and implement and monitor the patient’s medical plan and treatment. They will work with a team of physicians and other health care specialists or allied health in various settings
•    Perform systematic patient assessment and collect pertinent data about the patient’s health or situation.
•    Understand and analyze the assessment information and data
•    Determine actual and potential nursing diagnoses, problems, and issues
•    Define the predicted and expected outcomes of the patient’s planned care
•    Create and evaluate patient care plans with the medical team
•    Record vital signs, recognize and address abnormalities
•    Define the care plan in collaboration with the healthcare team, patients, and families. 
•    Maintain and update the technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice 
•    Employ strategies to promote patients’ health and a safe environment.
•    Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory exams
•    Perform essential life support (BLS
•    Prepare patients for medical examination and treatment 
•    Administer medications and monitor patients for any side effects and reactions
•    Administer treatments such as IV fluids or blood products and monitor patients for any reactions 
•    Provide wound care management 
•    Assist in medical procedures invasive or non-invasive as needed 
•    Facilitate the process of safe patient`s admission and discharge
•    Performs the Appropriateness review of medications before preparing and administering medications as required.
•    Responsible for coordinating with the Obstetrician, Neonatologist, Internal Medicine, Pediatrician and other allied workers to provide comprehensive care to patients.
 

Responsibilities

•    Be responsible for providing and coordinating patient care, educating patients and the public about various health conditions, and providing advice and emotional support to patients and their family members.
•    Assess and identify patients’ needs and implement and monitor the patient’s medical plan and treatment. They will work with a team of physicians and other health care specialists or allied health in various settings
•    Perform systematic patient assessment and collect pertinent data about the patient’s health or situation.
•    Understand and analyze the assessment information and data
•    Determine actual and potential nursing diagnoses, problems, and issues
•    Define the predicted and expected outcomes of the patient’s planned care
•    Create and evaluate patient care plans with the medical team
•    Record vital signs, recognize and address abnormalities
•    Define the care plan in collaboration with the healthcare team, patients, and families. 
•    Maintain and update the technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice 
•    Employ strategies to promote patients’ health and a safe environment.
•    Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory exams
•    Perform essential life support (BLS
•    Prepare patients for medical examination and treatment 
•    Administer medications and monitor patients for any side effects and reactions
•    Administer treatments such as IV fluids or blood products and monitor patients for any reactions 
•    Provide wound care management 
•    Assist in medical procedures invasive or non-invasive as needed 
•    Facilitate the process of safe patient`s admission and discharge
•    Performs the Appropriateness review of medications before preparing and administering medications as required.
•    Responsible for coordinating with the Obstetrician, Neonatologist, Internal Medicine, Pediatrician and other allied workers to provide comprehensive care to patients.
 

Qualifications

•    Must have emergency or urgent care experience    
•    Have an appropriate license to work as a nurse in the relevant regulatory health authority (DoH, DHA) with all the qualification and experience this mandates.
•    Manage their own professional revalidation
•    Have basic life support qualification (within past 24 months)