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Ref#2030
TitleClinical Instructor Cardiovascular Telemetry Unit
DescriptionOur client hospital in Riyadh is an 894-bed multi-facility, multi-entity tertiary care hospital and one of the leading healthcare institutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Its mission is to provide medical services of highly specialized nature and promote medical research and education programs, including postgraduate education training, as well as contribute to the prevention of disease. It is managed according to JCAHO standards. The JCIA is the world premier healthcare-accrediting agency based in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

In the Middle East, the hospital has been a pioneer in kidney and bone marrow transplantation, IVF, and orthopedic, oncology and cardiovascular surgery programs.

The hospital's research center contains four departments: Biological and Medical Research; Biomedical Physics; Biomedical Statistics and Scientific Computing; and Radio nuclide and Cyclotron Operations

The Hospital and Research Centre has a total staff of 6,946, comprising 63 different nationalities.

Benefits

* Tax free salary
* Free housing
* Free flights
* Free healthcare
* 54 days holiday
* On going Education
* Comphrensive Orientation

No. of Beds : 25 Cardiovascular and 7 pediatric cardiology beds.
The Cardio-Vascular Telemetry Care Unit provides nursing care for adult and pediatric cardiac patients requiring:

• Various forms of Cardiovascular surgeries.
• The most common adult cardiovascular surgical procedures are CABG, valve repair/replacement and congenital repairs.
• Correction of Pediatric cardiac congenital anomalies include definitive surgeries such as arterial switch, VSD repair,ASD repair, AVSD correction, PDA, SAMR, TOF correction, Rastelli procedure, Fontan procedure, DORV correction, RVOT correction, PA augmentations, palliative procedures such as PA banding, BT shunt, Glenn shunt, central shunt.
• Heart transplantation,
Frequent Procedures/Services/Functions
• Use of nursing process: assessment, planning, interventions, and evaluation.
• Continuous cardiac telemetry monitoring with dysrhythmia interpretation and treatment
• Continuous nursing assessments and evaluation of patient's physical and emotional needs and corresponding therapeutic interventions.
• Therapeutic modalities including chest tube insertion, maintenance and removal, temporary external pacing, maintainance and removal of epicardial pacing wires, permanent invasive pacing, emergency resuscitation, defibrillation/cardioversion, open chest resuscitations, maintenance of pericardial catheters and peritoneal dialysis.
• Medication delivery and pharmacological interventions including non titratable doses of intravenous vasoactive and antiarrhythmic drugs, anticoagulation, and immunosuppressive therapy.
• Blood products administration.
• Central and peripheral vascular line blood draws
• Maintainance and Removal of central lines
• Oxygen therapy and pulse oximetry.
• Maintainance and weaning off tracheostomy tubes.
• Maintenance of skin integrity.
• Nutritional support (enteral feedings, TPN, calorie counts).
• Infection control and safety management.
• Psychosocial and emotional support.
• Patient and family education.
Salary min-2.00 Saudi Riyal
Salary max-2.00 Saudi Riyal
LocationSaudi Arabia
CategoryNursing

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