Registered Professional Nurse Job Description
Registered Professional Nurse Job Description
Job Summary
The Registered Nurse (RN) is responsible for managing individualised patient care by promoting and restoring patients’ health through the nursing process; collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members; providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families; and supervising assigned team members. The ideal candidate will be a responsible and well-trained professional able to give the best nursing care with little supervision. You will be compassionate and cool-tempered. You will also be able to follow health and safety guidelines faithfully and consistently. The goal is to promote patient’s well-being by providing high-quality nursing care.
The RN is responsible to the Clinical Manager for the assigned Department.
Qualifications
- Proven experience as a registered nurse
- Excellent knowledge of nursing care methods and procedures
- Excellent knowledge of emergency care
- In-depth knowledge of health and safety guidelines and procedures (sanitation, decontamination etc.) and willingness to always follow them.
- A team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Responsible and compassionate
- Outstanding organizational and multi-tasking skills
- Patient with excellent problem-solving skills
- BSc or other diploma from a nursing program
- Valid NMC nursing Pin
You must possess the top clinical nursing skills expected from an RNs to have included the following:
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
- Treatment planning
- Case management
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
- Critical care nursing
- Hospital experience
- Acute care
- Life support
- Telemetry
- Patient/Family Education
Responsibilities
- Conducts an individualised patient assessment, prioritising the data collection based on the patient’s immediate condition or needs within the timeframe specified by the client facility’s policies, procedures, or protocols.
- Conducts ongoing assessments as determined by the patient’s condition and/or the client facility’s policies, procedures or protocols and reprioritizes care accordingly.
- Develop a plan of care that is individualized for the patient reflecting collaboration with other members of the healthcare team.
- Performs appropriate treatments as ordered by the physician in an accurate and timely manner.
- Performs therapeutic nursing interventions as established by individualized plan of care for the patient and his/her family.
- Delivers care with appropriate age and cultural competence to specific patient populations according to individualized needs.
- Provides individualized patient/family education customized to the patient and his/her family.
- Documents patient assessment findings, physical/psychosocial responses to nursing intervention and progress towards problem resolution.
- Initiates emergency resuscitative measures according to adult resuscitation and advanced life support protocols.
- Maintains confidentiality in matters related to patient, family, and client facility staff.
- Provides care in a non-judgmental, non-discriminatory manner that is sensitive to the patient’s and family’s diversity, preserving their autonomy, dignity, and rights.
- Reports patient condition to appropriate personnel during each shift.
- Maintains current competency in a nursing speciality by attending educational workshops. reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; and participating in professional societies.
