Staff Nurse | Saudi Arabia

Chase Resourcing are delighted to announce we are recruiting Staff Nurse for our client in Saudi Arabia.

The role of the Staff Nurse is to promote and restore patients’ health by completing the nursing process; collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members; providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends and families.

Duties and Responsibilities of Staff Nurse

• Provide total, direct nursing care in accordance with the plan of care and needs of the patients with respect for the patient’s privacy, dignity, personal preference and culture. Prepare, administer and document the administration of all prescribed medication by the physician, managing intravenous lines, observing and monitoring and recording patients’ conditions, maintaining records and communicating with all healthcare providers. Maintain knowledge of resources for therapeutic effects, usual dosages, contraindications, side effects and adverse reactions for all drugs and parental fluids administered. Maintain accountability for narcotics and controlled drugs. Escalate and adverse events/reactions as per policy.
• Perform an age specific, systematic and holistic initial assessment of the patient health status and refer to appropriate speciality if necessary and as applicable. Assess patient/family educational needs and readiness to learn utilising appropriate resources. Assess patient/family discharge planning needs utilising appropriate resources.
• Document all assessments, interventions and other relevant information in the patients’ health care records on an ongoing basis.
• Collaborate with the patient/family and other members of the health care team to develop and update a plan of care that is consistent with the medical diagnosis and based on the patient’s changing physical, psychosocial and age related requirements. Establish realistic and measureable goals that are culturally sensitive and identifies nursing interventions to achieve the goals. Evaluate on an ongoing basis the patients’ progress and the appropriateness of the plan of care involving the patient/family and other health team members and update the plan as needed. Recognise when patient care needs extend beyond the limits of personal ability and consult appropriate resources.
• Provide a leadership and resource role in the provision of the patient care, as applicable. Act as a unit management resource, as might be assigned initiate appropriate chain of command if unable to resolve issues satisfactorily. Act as a resource for new employees, trainees and other staff. Mentoring of nursing at all levels, as well as medical and paramedical students, interns and residents, as might be required.
• Provide quality of care that is evidence based by adhering to hospital and nursing division’s philosophies and standards of care, guidelines, policies and procedures. Measure health outcomes against patient care goals and key performance indicators at the company. Identify significant trends or changes in patient’s status and escalate and follow up as required to prevent the patient’s condition from deteriorating.
• Maintain a safe and clean working environment by complying with the organisational policies and procedures in collaboration with infection prevention and control department, patient safety department and other support personnel. Ensure adequate supplies and readiness of equipment are available at all times and report maintenance issues, broken or damaged instruments and equipment.
• Practice within the established hospital and department standards, policies and procedures. Demonstrate required skills and knowledge of basic principles, strategies and tools of Quality Improvement to maintain privileging in the area of assignment. Meet the standards of care elements as approved for each nursing speciality
• Protect patient privacy and dignity at all times and maintain strict confidentiality in conformance to the organisational policy of ethics. Advocate for patient/family rights at all times.
• Comply with area specific duties with precise policies which will be provided in the addendum by the supervisor when hired/assigned for special units which must be signed by the employee and filed in that employees personal file in addition to this job description.
• Perform other job related duties.

Requirements of Staff Nurse

• Bachelor degree in Nursing or equivalent from an accredited institution
• Current licensure as a professional registered nurse
• Minimum of 3 years current clinical nursing experience following licensure/registration in the country of origin with basic leadership experience

If interested in the position of Staff Nurse, please send a copy of your CV to ellen.ahern@chase.ie or call 353 (0) 66 976 2007