Details MME Ref Number MCH180813-3
Job Title Nursing Assistant - NICU
Business Unit Mediclinic City Hospital
Department Nursing
Job Type Permanent
Location - City Dubai
Location - Country United Arab Emirates
Recruiter Gretchen Bernardino
Job Description Mediclinic Middle East is looking to fill a Nursing Assistant in the NICU for Mediclinic City Hospital. Mediclinic City Hospital was the first multi-disciplinary hospital in Dubai Healthcare City. With 280 beds, Mediclinic City Hospital can accommodate patients with a wide range of individual health requirements.
Requirements • Nursing Diploma - 2 years
- At least 2 years post graduate experience
- Current DHA/ DHCC license or Eligibility letter as a Nursing Assistant or as a Registered Nurse
- Experience in Neonates preferred
- Fluency in written and spoken English (Arabic language skills are well regarded)
- High level of verbal and written communication skills
- High level of interpersonal and organizational skills
- Good computer literacy
- Ability to function effectively under pressure
- Ability to promote excellence in patient care through mentoring and quality management
Key Outputs • Ensures that patients have an adequate supply of clean linen, and that soiled items are removed.
- Responsible for keeping patient rooms clean and neat.
- Prepares beds as required.
- Observes and reports all changes in the physical and mental state of a patient to the Registered Nurse
- Assists all patients with activities of daily living
- Provides assistance with lifting and turning patients and assists patients with ambulation
- Orients patients to the nurse-call system, television and telephone
- Receives patients and visitors in the nursing unit
- Provides assistance in emergencies
- Answers bells promptly and calls the nurse practitioner, if indicated
- Provides bed bathing and pressure care to patients
- Assists with patient nutrition and feeding
- Takes and records vital signs
- Maintains knowledge of the upkeep of intake and output of a patient
- Provision of administrative support
- Assisting in maintaining a tidy unit; especially the Nurses station, and utility rooms
- Monitoring and ordering linen and stores
- Caring for patient flowers and patient belongings
- Collecting or taking items to other areas of the hospital as requested by the Nurse Manager or Team Leader.
Other Information Mediclinic City Hospital is part of Mediclinic Middle East and wholly owned by Mediclinic International, one of the 10 largest listed private hospital groups in the world. This means that Mediclinic City Hospital, and its patients, are able to benefit from the huge bank of knowledge and expertise available in its 66 sister facilities in Southern Africa and Switzerland.
