Job Description
Summary of Main
Duties and Responsibilities
To provide seamless service for all dialysis patients whilst maintaining quality standards.
Direct junior and auxiliary team members Provide safe quality ethical nursing care in accordance with the Hospital, international and federal standards and regulations
 	Actively participates in upholding and promoting the vision and culture of University Hospital Sharjah (UHS)	Complies with all UHS policies, procedures and fire regulations	Participates in all aspects of the International Accreditation program to assist UHS to attain and maintain international accreditation standards	Performs nursing practice in line with the facility, MOH, JCI and FDON policies, procedures and standards	Assess, plan, implements and evaluates the nursing care of each patient, considering the patient’s individuality, abilities, culture and right to choose	Prioritizes patients’ individual needs and delegates aspects of nursing care to other nursing team members within his/her scope of professional practice	Performs nursing care in response to the patient’s needs, treatment plan and nursing care plan, supported by nursing knowledge and current best practice	Assists physicians with examinations, procedures and other processes related to direct patient care	Assess, plan, implements and evaluates the nursing care of each Cardiac cath lab patient	Prioritizes patients’ individual needs and delegates aspects of nursing care to other nursing team members within his/her scope of professional practice	Commence, monitor and complete dialysis session (including needling) ensuring nephrologist orders have been followed	Adheres to hospital policy on the administering transfusions as required	Ensure correct function of the dialysis machine prior to commencement of dialysis session	Ensure correct use and function of all dialysis consumables prior to commencement of dialysis session and during	Documents the nursing care of each patient from admission to discharge in accordance to facility medical record and documentation policy	 Assists and provides documented patient and family health education, based upon the individual nursing care plan of the patient	Ensures patient environment is safe for patients and staff by utilizing infection control practices, adhering to International patient safety goals and following facility health and safety policies	Collaborates with the Multi-disciplinary team and acts as patient advocate to ensure quality care is delivered	Adhere to the safe administration of medication policy within the facility, administering prescribed medications, including narcotics as per scope of practice and competency framework	Monitors the condition of patient and reports any changes to appropriate personnel	Demonstrates sensitivity to patients’ comfort and privacy and expresses interest in their progress	Utilizes and ensures maintenance of equipment and instruments, reporting any damages, equipment malfunctioning to the Bio – Medical department and nurse in charge immediately	Participates in nursing continuous quality improvement initiatives, in service education programmes, unit meetings and committee functions as assigned by nurse in charge	Initiates emergency, safety practices and fire safety measures as necessary	Reports all incidents through agreed channels and chain of command, ensuring Incident report is completed, submitted to nurse in charge and any immediate action required taken	Maintains unit stock/consumables, crash cart stock, in accordance with facility policy on medication expiry dates and safe location of consumable items	Maintains and adheres to patient confidentiality at all times	Responsible for attendance to yearly mandatory training as scheduled on mandatory training calendar	Responsible for professional clinical practice and is actively involved in updating knowledge through educational activities	Performs other job-related duties as assigned (within scope of practice)	The employment terms and conditions for this position are specified in the individuals Employment Contract
Position
Requirements/Qualifications
 
Required	Graduate of an accredited school of nursing holding a
          BSc Nursing 	Minimum 4 years post-graduation experience in current specialty (Dialysis) in hospital setting.
 
Desirable	BLS certificate	Advanced Life support
Licenses/Registration
Required	Current license in country of origin	UAE Ministry of Health License
 
 
 
Job category
Job Code
DU01
Job Department





