Leadership/People Management

• Makes day to day decisions regarding unit operations that impact safety, quality and efficiency in the provision of patient care.
• Participates in the role of supervisor for assigned employees, contributing to the employee performance appraisal cycle, and objectively assists with action plans arising from appraisals as necessary.
• Supports the selection, development and retention of all staff.
• Role models’ professional behaviors and appearance in line with Sidra policies, procedures, and Sidra Values.
• Promotes a quality learning environment for students, interns and nurse residents, and is actively involved in teaching and developing staff.
• Role-models patient experience principles, provides service recovery, and identifies opportunities to improve the patient experience.
• Collaborates with leadership in the response and resolution of patient and family feedback, and leads on initiatives to enhance and optimize the patient and family experience.

Professionalism and Ethical Practice

• Practices within the DHP Scope of Practice according to licensure within the State of Qatar.
• Independently maintains licensure and regulatory requirements (e.g., life support certifications and CPD requirements).
• Demonstrates accountability for own professional judgement, actions and outcomes of care.
• Displays sound analytical and critical thinking ability in complex and rapidly changing situations.
• Assumes responsibility for the delegation of aspects of care delivery.
• Assumes responsibility for own professional development throughout lifelong learning to ensure competency and performance improvement.
• Role models’ professional behaviors and appearance that promote a positive image Sidra nursing.

Patient and Family Centered Care

• Delivers nursing care to patients and rounds to support delivery of patient care.
• Prioritizes high and low risk patients based on patient centered assessment and plan of care.
• Coordinates complex patient care needs in collaboration with other health care team members.
• Facilitates patient flow and coordinates patient’s activities and communication during shift.
• Communicates effectively and clearly with patients and families including the use of approved tools such as SBAR.
• Supports effective discharge and follow up planning in collaboration with families.

• Supports and promotes the evaluation of learning needs patients and families and facilitates patient and family education.

Teamwork and Collaboration

• Provides shift supervision and guidance to staff in collaboration with Clinical Nurse Manager, Clinical Nurse Educator and clinical nurse facilitator.
• Coordinates with Clinical Site Management Team on patient bed assignments.
• Facilitates patient flow and coordinates patient’s activities and communication during shift.
• Acts as a resource for staff/team members offering guidance and support, and providing accurate and timely feedback when necessary.
• Actively monitors nursing/midwifery workload and patient acuity within the unit to ensure optimum patient safety.
• Coordinates daily administrative and clinical duties including schedules, nursing/midwifery assignments and patient care.

Evidence Based Practice

• Adheres to and promotes dissemination, use, monitoring and review of Sidra’s Nursing and Midwifery Standards of Practice.
• Demonstrates clinical competency by delivering evidence-based care.
• Provides education and is actively involved in the competency management of staff.
• Monitors staff practice for adherence to policy, procedures, guidelines and standards in collaboration with the unit manager.
• Challenges the delivery of care which is not evidence based and supports remediation appropriately.
• Actively encourages, participates and/or leads in unit-based simulation activities.

Quality Improvement

• Identifies patient care issues and/or ways to improve and positively impact on the quality of care and patient outcomes.
• Works with others to affect change and produce positive outcomes through sharing of knowledge and information.
• Contributes to the achievement of effective utilization of resources.
• Facilitates and leads quality and performance improvement activities to ensure organization, service and unit KPI’s are achieved.
• Identifies cost efficiencies and/or leads initiatives to reduce cost.
• Participates in, promotes and facilitates unit based Shared Leadership initiatives.
• Contributes to the audit process and the submission of administrative documentation relating to Nursing and Midwifery key performance indicators.
• Actively participates/leads in activities related to organization accreditation including MOPH, JCI, Magnet and others as required.

Safety

• Ensures safe and high-quality patient care during shift through appropriate and equitable allocation of work based on patient acuity and skill mix.
• Leads on identifying safety issues in their area of work, resolving and/or escalating appropriately.
• Ensures reporting of and leads in the investigating of incidents and near misses using the organizational error reporting system.
• Oversees and monitors appropriate delegation of tasks within the unit/area of expertise.
• Observes and manages nursing care duties and tasks including the administration of medication.
• Responds and intervenes appropriately in emergency situations and takes immediate action.

Informatics

• Role models correct use of IT systems, including confidentiality and data protection.
• Demonstrates a high standard of documentation in the patient EMR and acts as a resource for staff.
• Maintains competence in accessing and usage of all IT systems including appropriate downtime procedures.

General

• Adheres to Sidra’s standards as they appear in the Code of Conduct and Conflict of Interest policies.
• Adheres to and promotes Sidra’s Values.
• Other duties as assigned.