RN-Neurosciences, EMU, and Radiation Therapy Unit
The 36-bed Neurosciences and Radiation Therapy Unit at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia manages patients – adult patients and pediatric patients as young as one year – with malignant and/or congenitally related diseases, who require complex diagnostic work-up, major surgery, radiation therapy, and/or chemotherapy. Nurses in the unit function within a total care nursing system.
Common conditions treated include brain and spinal tumours, spinal surgeries, AV malformations, neurovascular anomalies, aneurysms, and spina bifida. Neurosurgeons perform complex neurosurgical interventions using state-of-the-art technology such as: neuronavigation, navigational microscope, intraoperative monitoring, cortical mapping, frameless and frame-based stereotaxy, and interventional neuroradiology. In 2006, almost 600 neurosurgical procedures were performed in the OR.
Adult and pediatric patients with epilepsy are managed in a five-bed epilepsy monitoring unit.
Nurse to patient ratio: based on acuity
Shifts are 12-hours in length and follow the American rotation. Overtime is available.
Requirements:
* Bachelor’s degree or Associate’s degree or Diploma in Nursing, and
* Current nursing (RN) license in Canada or the United States, and
* A minimum of two years current experience as a Registered Nurse, of which at least one must be in the specialty area, working in a mid- to large-sized acute-care hospital in North America.
Due to cultural restrictions, the positions are reserved for female candidates.
Benefits:
* Tax-free income
* Single-status contract
* Accommodations provided
* Relocation allowance
* Annual Air Transportation
* Medical coverage
* More than 7 calendar weeks of vacation
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