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College and Girls Education College. The last two colleges were originally under

the auspices of the Ministry of Education. The university enrolment has grown to

more than 16,000 students.

Job Description &

Area:

Registered Nurse (RN), Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory (CCL).

June 2002, till

February 2011.

8 years and 7

months.

King Abdullah University Hospital (KAUH)-Irbid-Jordan.

One of the leading educational hospitals in Jordan, affiliated to Jordan University

of Science and technology (JUST), and considered as specialized and referral

hospital to the North Jordanian area which serves about 2 million people, with bed

strength of 640.KAUH obtained ISO 9001 accreditation in 2006, and obtained

Joint Commission International Accreditation (JCIA) in 2009.

Area Description: Cardiac Catheterization Division at KAUH includes two cardiac catheterization

laboratories and recovery area with three beds capacity.

Duties and

Responsibilities: As A Charge Registered Nurse in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory

(CCL), task and responsibilities include:

- Participates actively in the planning and distribution of patient

assignments.

- Manages of the patient and provision of care utilizing the nursing process,

environment, instrumentation, and other health care team members.

- Provides quality patient care in accordance with institutional policies and

procedures and established patient care standards and practice.

- Monitors, records and communicates patient condition as appropriateutilizing computerized documentation systems.

- Provides age and culturally appropriate care.

- Serves as the primary coordinator of all disciplines for well coordinated

patient care.

- Supports nursing staff in communication with physicians to include

accepting doctor's orders and communicating patient condition.

- Orients and mentors new staff members.

- Follows Standard Precautions using personal protective equipment as

required.

- Maintains appropriate records, charts, patient charges, logs, and statistics.

- Orders and maintains medications, drugs, supplies and equipment and

ensures they are available as needed.

- Participates in department quality improvement activities.

As A Registered Nurse, duties include:

- Rendering comprehensive nursing care from the point of admission to the

CCL to discharge from the CCL.

- Manages and directs nursing care and technical support before, during and

after invasive cardiovascular procedures.

- Instructs and educates patients and families.

- Confer with patient to obtain information for laboratory records, explainprocedures, allay fears and elicit patient cooperation.

- IV access insertion and continuous drug infusions, calculations and

preparation.

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- Administering medications and starting drips per physician orders.

- Prepares the vascular access site, sterile field preparation, patient draping.

- Changes dressings, cleans wounds, and removes arterial and venous

sheaths for post diagnostic and interventional invasive cardiovascular

procedures.

- Provides a 24hour on-call service for acute myocardial infarctions as well

as interventional procedures for cardiac patients.

- Scrubbing and assisting physicians in performing invasive cardiovascular

procedures in the Catheterization lab procedure.

- Circulating in the Catheterization lab procedure rooms: monitoring,

evaluating and assessing patient conditions.

- Monitoring and evaluation hemodynamic parameters during invasive

cardiovascular procedures on pediatric and adult patients, (EKG readings,

measuring cardiac pressures).

- Operates defibrillator and provide other assistance as needed during patient

emergencies.

- Provides permanent pacemaker programming for patients with implanted

pacemaker (Medtronic and St. Jude).- Balance and calibrate equipment including pressure recorders, pressure

sensitive transducers, power injector and ACT.

- Ensure routine preventive maintenance on equipment to ensure proper

functioning.

- Set up room prior to each procedure; prepare sterile tray, instruments,

supplies, equipment necessary for procedures and appropriate medications.

- Clean and restock each Cath Lab and recovery area.

CERTEFICATES AND LICENSURE: Certification ofClinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) in Adult Acute Care Nursing granted fromJordanian Nursing Council (JNC), in October 18, 2009 valid till October 18, 2012.

http://www.jnc.gov.jo/Nursing%20Specialization/nursing_specialization.htm

Jordan Nurses and Midwifes Council (JNMC) Member, Amman Jordan, Registered Nurse(RN) -7550, June, 2002 till now, (Active Status).

"Team Building and Coaching Skills", Certificate of attendance, equal 4 continuouseducation hours, on 18/2/2009, by Healthcare Management Counseling Service, held in King

Abdullah University Hospital (KAUH), Irbid, Jordan. "Basic Quality Management Concepts and Principles Training Course",Certificate of attendance, equal 22 continuous education hours, for the period from November

2008 to February 2009, by Healthcare Management Counseling Service, held in King

Abdullah University Hospital (KAUH), Irbid, Jordan.

Certification of active participation in Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM)Technician Training of ST. Jude Medical Institute, March 31st - April 4th, 2008, Amman-

Jordan.

Certificate of attendance in "Communication Skills and Building HumanRelations" course, held in King Abdullah University Hospital, Irbid-Jordan.

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ACTIVITIES AND ATTENDANCIES:

Certification of participation in "Conscious Sedation Course", September 6, 2009, held in KingAbdullah University Hospital, Irbid-Jordan.

The 3rd BSCME Technicians and Nurses Meeting, Certificate of Attendance, by Boston

Scientific, Oct 30, 31, 2008, Beirut, Lebanon. The 9th International Conference by Jordan Cardiac Society, certificate of attendance, April22th-25rd, 2008. Amman-Jordan.

Certification of paper presentation at The Second International Nursing Conference titled"Incidence and Predictors of Femoral Hematoma Using Manual Compression after Cardiac

Catheterization", by The Jordanian nursing Council (JNC) 23rd-24th April, 2008, Amman-Jordan.

The 8th International Conference by Jordan Cardiac Society, certificate of attendance, June20th-23rd, 2006. Amman-Jordan.

Involved in FOCUS-PDCA quality improvement (QI) project regarding "Vascular AccessComplications after invasive cardiovascular procedures".

LANGUAGES: Mother tongue ARABIC.

ENGLISH: Very good in speaking, reading and writing.

CONTINUOUS EDUCATION: In-service Continuous Education Program:

- BLS and Basic CPR

- ACLS

- Quality Assurance/Improvement.

- Fire and safety.

- Infection control.

- Medicom system (Computerized Patient Record System).

COMPUTER SKILLS: Proficient in Windows 98, 2000 professional and XP professional.

Proficient in Microsoft applications (Word, Excel, Power point), and internet.

SPSS statistical analysis program.

Publications: Al Sadi Ahmad Kh , Omeish Abdallah, Al-Zaru Ibtisam. Timing and predictors of femoral

hematoma development after manual compression of femoral access sites. J Pak Med Assoc (JPMA)

2010 Aug;60(8):620-625.

Available at http://jpma.org.pk/full_article_text.php?article_id=2217

PMID: 20726189 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Available athttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20726189

REFERENCES:Available upon request.

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