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NURSING DEPARTMENT
Step into the world of a RHUH Nurse where you will grow professionally and personally while practicing in the most modern hospital in Lebanon.
At BGUH, you will work with caring, experienced nursing colleagues. We have much to offer both the new and experienced nurse. Our department has "a can do" attitude and nurses can do almost anything. Nursing practices ranges across a wide variety of patients, illnesses, and levels of care.
Caring and compassion in RHUH are as important as clinical competence. No matter where you may practice after being with us, the knowledge and skills you have learned here will hold in good stead.
Overview
Nursing is a rewarding but highly technical field. Nurses must know not only the health sciences, but also how to plan, organize and educate patients and their families. In order to do that, nurses of RHUH are recruited very carefully from accredited schools of nursing. They are offered a comprehensive staff development program and are urged to take advantage of educational opportunities in- house, locally and abroad.
Mission
Our mission is to provide high quality patient care based on our strong commitments to practice, education, research, innovation, and collaboration.
 
Vision
Our goal is to be a national leader among academic health centers. We are building on our traditional missions of patient care, creating innovation in nursing and in the delivery of health care; adapting our organization to succeed in a changing environment; and working collaboratively as partners with colleagues, individuals, communities and organizations.
 
Philosophy
Nursing is an art and a science dedicated to improving the physical and psychological well-being of patients. We are committed to excellence in Practice, Education, Informatics, research and Administration.
We provide care to patients and their families in a respectful, caring manner. We deliver care which is appropriate, effective, and aimed toward specific outcomes.
We provide education that empowers patients, families, and staff to make decisions about health care. We promote a learning environment for staff. Our staff participates in all aspects of education, including professional development; we value academic education, and we support staff members who seek advanced education.
We provide information systems that serve users by making data readily accessible for clinical and management decision making, quality improvement, education, and research. We support the development of efficient electronic systems that enhance communication among staff and facilitate the flow of patient information throughout the enterprise.

We improve the quality of care by assuring that patients and families receive nursing care which has been demonstrated by research to improve outcomes. We are committed to an environment which fosters scientific inquiry, critical thinking, and adoption of innovations.
 
Nursing Process

Nurses work in many different areas, but the common thread of nursing is the process, the essential core of how a registered nurse delivers care. The process involves five steps:

  1. Assessment: collecting and analyzing the physical psychological and socio cultural data about a patient.
  2. Diagnosis: making a judgment on the cause, conditions and path of the illness.
  3. Planning: creating a care plan which sets specific treatment goals.
  4. Implementation: supervising or carrying out the actual plan.
  5. Evaluation: continuous assessment of the plan.

We believe that, though education and knowledge are the basis of our nursing process, critical thinking is as important, therefore we encourage learning and thinking. 

Virtue, voice and vigilance
Inherent in nursing, is respect for human rights and especially patients' right, like cultural rights, the right to life and choice, to dignity and respect. Nursing care in RHUH is respectful and unrestricted by considerations of age, color, creed, culture, disability or illness, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, politics, race or social status. The nurses in RHUH have a voice and are represented in many hospital committees. In the nursing department, seven committees have or will be established to ensure vigilance and quality:

  1. Committee on personal and recruitment.
  2. Committee on informatics development.
  3. Committee on the safety management of medical supplies.
  4. Committee on research and development.
  5. Committee on welfare and benefits.
  6. Committee on quality promotion.
  7. Committee on education and training.

The nurses in RHUH work in coordination with the different departments of the hospital to ensure the delivery of quality health care to all patients.

Team
Nurses perform the fundamental, universal, indispensable services in healthcare. Every nurse is important and every nurse makes a difference in RHUH. Nurses come from very diverse backgrounds but they all share common goals. The ratio of nursing staff to patients averages 1 to 7. Nursing staff work shifts of 8 hours, on rotation basis.
We are anxious to learn about you and the skills and talents you can contribute to our team. Please take a look at our available nursing positions.
Recruitment Process
To date, 200 RN and 135 PN have been recruited to work in our hospital. Some are permanent employees recruited through the government civil board department, some are contractors recruited through the Human Resources Division.We need nurses for all medical specialties and encourage applicants to pay us a visit, have a tour and enquire about our conditions of employment. The nursing department is located on the ground floor of the main building and opens from 8:00 – 16:00
 
Location in RHUH
The nursing service is located on the first floor of the RHUH room number 1,907.
 
Frame Work of the Nursing Department
The department has one director and two deputy directors respectively responsible for the nursing school and the clinical services. The supervisor, head nurse and assistant head nurse in each ward oversee the nursing care provided directly by nurses to patients.
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