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Ref#2667
TitleRegistered Nurse - Children's Cancer Center, Inpatient Care Ward B
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.

The Client Hospital is only one of four hospitals in the world to be accredited outside The United States of America. 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


Care Ward B (CWB) is a twenty (20) bed ward, which provides acute care to pediatric hematology and oncology patients from birth to 14 years of age.

Nurse Patient Ratio: 1:3 – 4 (days)
1:4 – 5 (nights)

The unit consists of four (4) negative air pressure rooms for isolation and sixteen (16) positive air pressure rooms. The most commonly treated oncology disorders include:

• Osteosarcomas
• Ewing’s Sarcoma/PNET
• Neuroblastoma/CNS tumors
• Germ Cell Tumor
• Wilm’s Tumor
• Rhabdomyosarcoma
• Retinoblastoma

Due to the predominance of pediatric hematology patients CWB also provides acute care to this patient population. The most commonly treated hematology disorders include:

• Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
• Acute Myelogenous Leukemia
• Aplastic Anemia
• Sickle Cell Anemia
• Langerhan’s Cell Histiocytosis
• Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
• Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
• Burkitt’s Lymphoma

Frequent Procedures/Services/Functions
• Medication delivery including chemotherapy administration and management
• Blood product administration
• Central and peripheral intravenous line management
• Bone marrow biopsy and aspiration
• Lumbar puncture
• Patient assessment and evaluation
• Patient/family education
• Hemodynamic monitoring
• Oxygen therapy and pulse oximetry
• Conscious sedation
• Isolation
• Nutritional support (TPN, weight assessment, dietary instruction)
• Psychosocial support
• BMT work-up
• Diagnostic and Treatment evaluation
• Radiation therapy

Hours of Operation:
24 hours per day, 7 days a week

Tax free salary available on application.
Excellent benefits, including free accommodation and flights.

Salary min201,684.00 Saudi Riyal
Salary max201,684.00 Saudi Riyal
LocationSaudi Arabia
CategoryNursing

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