Ensures through his/her actions, either directly or indirectly, that a superior quality of medical treatment, compassion and understanding is given to every patient served at the Riyadh Care Hospital.
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Provides patient care within the parameters of their professional competence as reflected in the scope of their clinical privileges.
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Practices within the framework of clinically relevant and scientifically valid standards, guidelines and criteria.
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Participates in the development and maintenance of medical contingency disaster plans.
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Maintain the quality of the triage system performed by the Emergency Room Nurse.
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Supervises the performance of the E.R. physicians in the unit.
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Performs some diagnostic and therapeutic procedures on his/her patients within the range of the specialty as per his / her privileges.
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Assessment and referral of appropriate patients under his/her medical care to other appropriate medical facilities.
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Participates in the on-call Rota of the department for patient care.
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Observes and upholds the patients rights of security, confidentiality and privacy.
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Responds to emergencies to offer advice and actively participate with problems if required, related to his/her specialty.
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Maintains appropriate records of all patients with accurate, timely legible completion of patients medical records.
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Supervision of duties of assigned junior staff.
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Provides leadership for performance-improvement functions in the process of measurement, assessment and improvement of both clinical and non-clinical process as part of the Departmental Quality Plan.
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Active participation in Continued Medical Education (C.M.E.) through educational hospital activities (morning report meetings, grand rounds, clinical tutorials and seminars, journal club, radiology or clinico-pathological conferences). Also, through National and International meetings, conferences and symposia.
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Active participation in training program related to his/her field and organization within the hospital for training of junior medical staff and in-service training for nursing staff and technicians.
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Continuous update of his/her knowledge in the medical field as well as continuously upgrading level of skill in his/her field of profession.
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Participation in committee meetings assigned to him/her (Quality Improvement, Infection Control, etc.).
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Abides by Department Policies and Procedures, as well as hospital by-laws, Rules and Regulations.
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Responsible to educate patients /families as per their needs and to implement their whole role regarding patient / family education process as mention in patient & family education policy and procedure including documentation in patient medical record.
