Clinical Nurse

Job Summary

Provides nursing care in an effective and safe manner to a select group of patients and families, carries out established nursing regimes, and plans of nursing care under the guidance of a preceptor or other designated RN.

The scope of responsibility, duties and accountability at the facility department and position levels including knowledge and practice of the clinical/technical skills necessary to the position consistent with the Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners (QCHP) Nursing/Midwifery Competency Framework and Scope of Practice. Nursing job duties are to meet the Joint Commission International and the Plan of Care Policy, and other regulatory requirements.

Job Responsibilities 1

Identifies outcomes with regard to patient care delivery and timely care.

Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards, measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments; following hospital and nursing division’s philosophies and standards of care set by QCHP, and other governing agency regulations.

Provides basic assessment skills to assess the signs, symptoms, reactions, behaviors, or general appearance to determine normal versus abnormal characteristics

Delivers safe and appropriate patient care to a specific patient population using nursing process.

Provides direct and indirect care services, including, but not limited to, the administration of medications and therapeutic agents necessary to implement treatment, disease prevention, or rehabilitative plan of care

Performs skin tests, immunizations, phlebotomy, and the initiation of peripheral venous access

Observes signs and symptoms of illness, reactions to medications/treatments, general behavior, and/or general physical condition.