Critical Care Nursing Chapter

Vision:

To provide safe, high quality, and compassionate care to critical care patients in the kingdom.

Mission:

Dedicated to providing guidance and strengthen critical care nurses by providing professional development, research, guidelines, and training to ensure patients and their families receive highest level of care.

Objectives:

• Establish national critical care nursing standard of care
• Create a website page containing our vision, value, mission, goals, activities, achievements, and scientific interaction corner
• Promote and support network among critical care nurses regionally and globally
• Participate and provide regular educational programs, webinars, and critical care nursing conferences
• Incorporate Simulation based learning in critical care nursing
• Invite subject matter experts to discuss and address important topics in critical care nursing
• Collaborate with regional and international organizations known in providing excellent recommendations in critical care nursing
• Empower patients and their families on all aspect of critical care, keep them informed and treating them with respect and dignity
• Promote the development of compassionate critical care

Chapter Committee Members:

King Saud University:

• Dr. Omaimah Qadhi; Assistant Professor Nursing college, King Saud University

King Abdulaziz Medical City:

• Mrs. Samirah Al. Amri, Director of Clinical Nursing, KASCH
• Ms. Fatimah Aldawood Clinical Resource Nurse PICU, Infection Control Practitioner, KAMC
• Ms. Rasha Alanazi, Senior Nurse at Critical Care Response Team, and Clinical Resource Nurse for Sepsis Program
• Ms. Abeer Jaafari, Clinical Resource Nurse, NCCU
• Ms. Abdullah Abu-haimed; Neuro Critical Care Nurse

Ministry of Health:

• Mrs. Najla Almutairi, Senior administrator
• Mrs. Nada Alkaabi, Critical Care Nursing Administrator

Al Habib Medical Group:

• Mr. Khalid Almutairi, Nursing Program Director

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Create Vision, Mission, and goals for Nursing Chapter
• Assign roles & responsibilities for working groups
• Promote SCC Membership
• Look for sponsorship for nursing activities
• Involve Nursing research as part of Nursing chapter activities.

Nursing chapter includes four working groups:

• Group 1: vision, mission, and gaols (Dr. Omaimah, Nada, Fatimah)
• Group 2: Scientific content (Maha, Samira, Dr. Omaimah)
• Group 3: Public Relation & logistics (Najla, Abdullah, Rasha)
• Group 4: Research & Journal Review (Abeer, Maha, and Khalid)

Chapter Meeting:

Monthly meetings Last Wednesday of each month

Educational Activities (Sep 2020-Mar 2021):

Date	Hospital	Topic
September 16, 2020	KAMC	Critical Care Leadership Nursing Webinar
October 28, 2020	KSU	Search for Evidence: ICU Nurse Guide to Clinical Research
Nov 18, 2020	KAMC	Psychological Resilience and ICU staff Wellbeing (Stay well, Stay Strong)
Dec 16, 2020	KFSHRC	ICU Resource Management during Crises
Jan 13, 2021	KAMC	Critical Care & Infection Prevention Measures
Feb 10, 2021	KSMC	Pediatric Critical Care Nursing Webinar
Mar 17, 2021	KFSH & RC	Cardiac-Critical Care Nursing Webinar

Future Workshops:

• Hemodynamic Monitoring
• Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy
• Multi-Modal Neuro Monitoring

Head of Critical Care Nursing Chapter:

• Director of Clinical Nursing for Ambulatory-Care and Hemodialysis Centre at King Abdulaziz Medical City in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• Nurse Specialist of Neuro Critical Care Unit (NCCU) at KAMC-R, MNGHA
• Head of Nursing Chapter at the Saudi Critical Care Society (SCCS)
• Head of Nursing Chapter at the Saudi Stroke Society (SSS)
• Member of the Scientific Nursing Council at the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties (SCFHS)
• Executive board member of the Global Sepsis Alliance (GSA) and World Sepsis Day Committee
• Member of the Stroke Technical Committee at the Saudi Central Board for Accreditation of Healthcare Institutions (CBAHI)
• Member of the National TBI Guidelines at the Saudi Health Council
• Member of the Clinical Advisory Group for Stroke at Ministry of Health Vision Realization Office (VRO)
• Advanced Nursing Trauma Life Support Instructor and Course Director
• Speaker and delegate at different local and international conferences
• Research interest includes improve sepsis care, improve delirium management and sedation practice in the ICU, increase stroke awareness as well as inter-professional simulation education.
• Obtained several posters awards and contributed as primary author and co-investigator to several publications and review articles at distinguished journals such as New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), Annals of Thoracic Medicine Journal, BMC of Psychiatry, BMJ Simulation, and Saudi Critical Care Journal (SCCJ).