Staff Nurse

1. Administrative

• Performs shift in charge role, involves in decision making, guides and supports nursing staff in their daily nursing assignments.
• Takes an active role in the orientation, follow-up and evaluation of new nursing staff in the unit.
• Acts as facilitator/mentor/preceptor to new hires, float nurses and registered nursing students and interns.
• Coordinates admissions/transfers/discharges and arrange for continuing outpatient services or home health care services.
• Evaluates on-going nursing practices and provides suggestions for changes as the need arises.
• Performs clerical duties like entry of nursing procedural charges to the system, processing documents, and arranging appointments, etc.
• Performs other duties that maybe assigned by the Head Nurse or Area Manager to
• Participate in performance improvement projects to improve patient care in the assigned area
• Perform environmental rounds, report variances or malfunctioning equipment’s to the unit Head Nurse. 
• Ensure the unit meets all applicable standards
• Participate in tracers activities and ensure compliance with MOH regulations, JCI and CBAHI standards. 
• Perform health record documentation audits and implement corrective actions accordingly
• Monitors and utilizes stock items and other resources in a cost-effective manner. Charge all used consumables, procedures and services as per the RCH policy
• Perform health record documentation audits and participate in tracers activities
• Participate in nursing journal clubs, committees, taskforces and councils as appropriate.

2. Clinical

• Utilizes nursing process in the provision of nursing care activities.
• Assess patients and monitors response to interventions; notify physician accordingly and complete documentation in a timely manner.
• Responds effectively in emergency situations and unexpected circumstances, accepting additional workload according to staffing and patient ratio needs.
• Assess patient utilizing the RCH Pain assessment tool.
• Assess all patients for Fall Risk utilizing the different Fall assessment tool.
• Maintains safe custody, administration and documentation of medications, narcotics and infusions according to MOH regulations and international standards.
• Provides and receives handover of patients, maintains records, reports and other documents, ensuring confidentiality, legibility and accuracy.
• Works cooperatively and communicates effectively with colleagues as part of the multidisciplinary team to provide high quality nursing care.
• Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team and participate in providing effective patient and family education.
• Encourage patient and family involvement and participation in the plan of care
• Prepare and explains the procedure to the patient, assemble required consumables and equipment and assist the physician with procedures as appropriate
• Recognize emergency situations and responds by implementing appropriate nursing interventions as per BLS criteria and RCH policies
• Maintain confidentiality of patient information
• Ability to build the rapport relationship with the patients.
• Administer blood and blood products as per RCH policy and attend to competency on blood administration.

3. Quality Improvement

• Understands and able to explain the nursing department’s nurse sensitive indicators, Key Performance Indicators and accreditation standards.
• Participates and promotes continuous quality improvement activities.
• Participates in all nursing quality improvement initiatives including implementation and evaluation of action plans.
• Complies with Safety and Infection Control Policies, Procedures and Guidelines.
• Ensures sustainability of compliance to JCIA and CBAHI accreditation standards.
• Ensures timely reporting of incidence and accidents
• Participate in the quality improvement projects; and any new accreditation.

4. Attitude & Professionalism

• Always punctual at work.
• Adheres to dress code, always present professional appearance.
• Observes all aspects of confidentiality.
• Maintains good, professional working relationship with colleagues and other members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Resolves conflict promptly with appropriate documentation and reports to Head Nurse.
• Follows appropriate chain of command for request, handling conflicts and misunderstanding in a positive manner to achieve satisfactory resolution.
• Shows high commitment to the duties’ time and attendance
•  Deployment or float staff according to the unit needs.

5. Professional Development

• Comply with mandatory trainings and continuing education hours
• Responsible for identifying own learning needs, seeking educational opportunities and utilizing available resources.
• Remains current in the latest in nursing practice.
• Participates in unit and departmental educational activities including preceptor ship to new hired nursing staff.
• Completes relevant study programs, unit-specific and mandatory nursing competencies within the specified time frames, i.e. BCLS, Fire Safety Training, etc.

6. Patient and Family Education

• Responsible to educate patients /families as per their needs and to implement their whole role regarding patient / family education process as mention in patient & family education policy and procedure (NSP-GEN-014) including documentation in patient medical record.
• They are knowledgeable about their essential role in patient and family education.
• Involves the patient/families in plan of care and respects patients/families regarding their goals and choices of patient care.
• Provides health promotion and health teaching thru methods appropriate to a patients’ developmental level, learning needs, readiness and ability to learn, language preference, culture and situations.
• Allots time necessary to assess, plan implement and evaluate patient education provided to patients/families with appropriate documentation.

Education/Licensure

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing/ Diploma in Nursing.
• Current Licensure (RN) with a nursing governing body from country of origin.
• Professional Nursing License from Saudi Council for Health Specialties.
• Life support training as per specialty.

   Professional Experience

• Minimum two (2) years post graduate clinical experience in a hospital setting.    (Saudi new graduates are exempted).
• Current working knowledge in related specialty.
• Demonstrates safe & correct use of specific unit-based equipment.

• Fluent in spoken and written English.
• Be able to speak and understand basic Arabic Language.
• Ability to work in multi-cultural environment.
• Exhibits professionalism and excellent interpersonal communication skills.
• Good in customer care, able to work in multidisciplinary teams
• Knowledgeable in computer applications.
• He / She must be creative, flexible and have critical thinking skills.
• Must have good personal hygiene and be well groomed at all time