RN-Liver Transplant, Renal Transplant, and Nephrology Unit

King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh

The King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh. 

With 896 beds (inclusive of 170 day beds), the most high acuity tertiary-care centre in the entire Arabian Peninsula. Built in 1979, it is constantly expanding and updating its facilities and services. Has the latest in technology and treatment methods.

Specializes in treatment of, and research in, cardiology, oncology, organ transplant, and genetic diseases.

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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

The capital city, population 3.5 million and expanding into the surrounding desert at a rapid pace. Has extravagantly fanciful buildings, malls, and towers. 

The social life for Westerners is enriched by events at the foreign embassies in the city. After people acclimatize to the heat, they play sports: golf, tennis, hockey, soccer, sand-board.

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia, population 24 million, with mountains and the Red Sea on the west coast, the Arabian Gulf on the east coast, and the Empty Quarter in the middle.

Mecca and Medina, the two most holy cities in Islam, are located north of Jeddah. Majority religion is Sunni Islam. Common recreational activities pursued by Westerners: desert camping, swimming and diving in the Red Sea, running, tennis, hiking in the mountains.

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Employer: King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Openings: 5

Nurses in the Liver Transplant/Renal Transplant/Nephrology Unit at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia function within a total care nursing system. The 27-bed unit treats both adult and pediatric patients in the three areas:

i) Nephrology:

  • Patients with acute renal failure and end stage renal disease are treated at hospital-based hemodialysis units.
  • Approximately 1,300 hemodialysis and hemofiltration patients (pediatric and adult) are treated per month.

ii) Liver transplant:

  • The Liver Transplant program started in 2003 and, since that time, the program has performed over 120 liver transplants, both cadaveric and living donor.
  • In 2006, the program performed 37 liver transplants, of which 27 were cadaveric and 11 were living donor.

iii) Kidney transplant:

  • The Renal and Pancreatic Transplant program has performed more than 1,200 kidney transplants since 1981.
  • In 2006, the program performed 140 kidney transplants and four pancreas transplants.
  • Patient survival is at 99% and graft survival rate is at 97%.
  • Renal Transplant Surgeons (there are three currently on staff) have performed pediatric kidney transplants on children as small as 10.0kg.

The unit has a procedure room where various procedures (e.g. renal biopsies) are performed, two negative pressures rooms.

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 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.

Benefits:

  • Tax-free income
  • Single-status contract
  • Accommodations provided
  • Relocation allowance
  • More than 7 calendar weeks of vacation

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