Job Description

Major Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensures through his actions, either directly or indirectly, that a superior quality of medical treatment, compassion and understanding is given to every patient served at the NMC Hospitals and Clinics.

• Provides patient care within the parameters of their professional competence as reflected in the scope of their clinical privileges.

• Practices within the framework of clinically relevant and scientifically valid standards, guidelines and criteria under limited supervision and guidance of Anesthesia consultants.

• Administers or advices anesthesia administration by registrars to assigned patients.

• Provides anesthesia with full range of anesthetic agents, methods and techniques, observing safety standards in the operating room as related to anesthetic agents and equipment.

• Maintains appropriate records of all patients receiving any type of anesthesia in accordance with established standards and based on monitoring of patient condition prior to, during and after anesthesia.
• Discusses with concerned consultants of his department the condition of any patient who is high anesthetic risk, explains the expected outcome to patient and/or legal guardian and obtains the required consent before administration of anesthesia.

• Interviews patients scheduled for surgery to assess and develop an anesthesia care plan, and to establish rapport and allay fear and apprehension.

• Monitors patients post operatively to evaluate recovery from anesthesia, to assess complications and make recommendations as indicated.

• Clinical duties will account for 75% of time.

• Supervises and maintains appropriate documentation on the “controlled drugs” for the division in the Obstetrical and main OR’s.

• Takes appropriate therapeutic measures in emergency situations for assigned patients with post anesthesia complications.

• Provides consultation requested by other medical specialties in the field of Anesthesiology.

• Performs diagnostic and therapeutic procedures on his/her patients within the range of the specialty.

• Assessment and referral of appropriate patients under his/her medical care to other appropriate medical facilities as well as accepting referrals of patients with medical problems in
• Participates in the on-call rota of the department for patient care and admission.

• Responds to emergencies to offer advice and actively participate with problems if required, related to his/her specialty.

• Observes and upholds the patient’s rights of security, confidentiality and privacy.

• Maintains appropriate records of all patients with accurate, timely legible completion of patients medical records.

• Senior Registrar has a leadership role in the organization performance, under the guidance of the head of the department

• Supervision of duties of assigned junior staff.

• 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.

• 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.

• Active participation in training program related to his field and organization within the hospital for training of junior medical staff and in-service training for nursing staff and technicians.

• Continuous update of his knowledge in the medical field as well as continuously upgrading level of skill in his/her field of profession.

• Participates actively as a member of the Code Blue Team as directed by the Head of the Department.

• Assists Chief Anesthesiologist In supervising the Recovery Room and in serving on the Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation Committee and team

• Participation in committee meetings assigned to him/her (Quality Improvement, Infection Control)

• Abides by Department Policies and Procedures, as well as hospital by-laws, Rules and Regulations.

• Performs other applicable tasks and duties assigned within the realm of the employee’s knowledge, skills and abilities.

• 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.

• They are knowledgeable about their essential role in patient and family education.

• Involves the patient/families in plan of care and respects patients/families regarding their goals and choices of patient care.

• Provides health promotion and health teaching thru methods appropriate to a patients’ developmental level, learning needs, readiness and ability to learn, language preference, culture and situations.

• Allots time necessary to assess, plan implement and evaluate patient education provided to patients/families with appropriate documentation.