Health Care Assistant - Female Ward

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Date: 5 Jan 2023

Location: Sharjah, AE

Company: University Hospital Sharjah

Position Summary

To assist the nursing team in providing nursing care to assigned group of patients, performing a variety of non-licensed patient care activities, ensuring the safety, personal needs and comfort of the patients are met

Summary of Main Duties

• Participates in all aspects of the International Accreditation Programme to assist UHS to attain and maintain international accreditation standards
• Assists registered nurses in performing basic duties that are in line with the facility, MOH, JCI, FDON policies, procedures and standards
• Acts as a chaperone for patients as required, preserving the patient’s dignity Assists nurses in turning, moving, or transporting patients on a stretcher or wheelchair.
• Tidies rooms reporting any unsafe situation to the team leader
• Assists with meal tray delivery and return, noting fluids taken and informing to assigned RN
• Assists those patients who are unable to feed themselves
• Making an unoccupied bed or assisting a RN to make an occupied bed
• Weighing of ambulatory patients
• Cleaning up after procedures, treating used instruments as per standard precautions
• Transporting of specimens as appropriate after ensuring that it is correctly labelled
  
  

• Checks & stocks supply rooms as designated by team leader
• Demonstrates sensitivity to patients’ comfort and privacy and expresses interest in their progress
• Accompany patients for x- ray procedures, ECG, CT Scan
• Accompany Physician during physical examination
• 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 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)
  
  

• Minimum 2 years nursing experience or demonstrated related healthcare experience
• Proficient in verbal and written English
  
  

• Diploma in nursing desirable but not essential
• Previous OPD experience
• BLS certificate
  
  

• 2 years nursing/assistant/healthcare related experience
• Proficient in verbal and written English
  
  

• Previous UAE experience
• Experience of working in International accredited hospital (JCIA)