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Date: 26 Feb 2025

Location: Sharjah, AE

Company: University Hospital Sharjah

Position Summary

To assist the nursing team in providing nursing care to an 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

• Actively participates in upholding and promoting the vision and culture of University Hospital Sharjah (UHS).
• Complies with all the UHS policies, procedures, and fire regulations.
• Participates in all aspects of the International Accreditation Programme to assist UHS in attaining and maintaining international accreditation standards.
• Assists registered nurses in performing basic duties that are in line with the facility, MOH, JCI, FDON policies, procedures, and standards.
• Maintains a safe, clean environment using approved infection control practices.
• 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 and reports any unsafe situation to the team leader.
• Assists with meal tray delivery and return, noting fluids taken and informing the assigned RN.
• Assists those patients who are unable to feed themselves.
• Makes an unoccupied bed or assists a RN to make an occupied bed.

• Weighing of ambulatory patients.
• Cleaning up after procedures, treating used instruments as per standard precautions.
• Checks & stocks supply rooms as designated by the team leader.
• Assists with the maintenance of a clean, safe environment.
• Demonstrates sensitivity to patients’ comfort and privacy and expresses interest in their progress.
• Utilizes and ensures maintenance of equipment and instruments, reporting any damages or equipment malfunctions to the Bio-Medical department and nurse in charge immediately, including the quality control checks on refrigerators and monitoring of room temperatures.
• Undertakes a range of clinical support functions including preparing and stocking clinical areas in line with the protocols.
• Accompanies patients for x-ray procedures, ECG, CT Scan.
• Accompanies Physician during physical examinations.
• Participates in nursing continuous quality improvement initiatives, in-service education programmes, unit meetings, and committee functions as assigned by the 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 the nurse in charge, and any immediate action required is taken.

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

• Previous UAE experience.
• Experience of working in an internationally accredited hospital (JCIA).