Health Care Assistant - Female Ward
University Hospital Sharjah
Date: 17 hours ago
City: Sharjah
Contract type: Full time
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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
Position Requirements/Qualifications
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)
Position Requirements/Qualifications
- 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)
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