Nurses are the backbone of any clinical care provided at any clinical care facility. They are differentiated from other health care providers by their approach to patient care, training, and scope of practice. Nurses practice in a wide diversity of practice areas with a different scope of practice and level.

A patient generally spends most of his or her time with the nurses as compared to other care providers. They are known to be the life and sole of a patients care plan and play an instrumental role in the recovery of any patient.

Nurses work collaboratively with physicians, therapists, the patient, the patients family and other team members on the plan of care. Nurses provide care both interdependently, for example, with physicians, and independently as nursing professionals.

IEC enjoys among the highest nurse-patient ratios in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia which allows us to care better for our patients.

Mechanical ventilation or assisted respiration is a method to mechanically assist or replace spontaneous breathing. This may involve a machine called a ventilator or the breathing may be assisted by a registered nurse, physician, respiratory therapist, paramedic, or other suitable person compressing a bag or set of bellows. Mechanical ventilation is termed invasive if it involves any instrument penetrating through the mouth (such as an endotracheal tube) or the skin (such as a tracheostomy tube). There are two main modes of mechanical ventilation within the two divisions: positive pressure ventilation, where air (or another gas mix) is pushed into the trachea, and negative pressure ventilation, where air is, in essence, sucked into the lungs.

IEC has an entire building (number 10) dedicated to patients requiring assisted respiration. Kindly contact the nurse in the ground floor nurse station before visiting any patient with mechanical ventilation

Dialysis is a process for removing waste and excess water from the blood, and is used primarily as an artificial replacement for lost kidney function in people with renal failure. Dialysis may be used for those with an acute disturbance in kidney function (acute kidney injury, previously acute renal failure), or progressive but chronically worsening kidney function–a state known as chronic kidney disease stage 5 (previously chronic renal failure or end-stage renal disease). The latter form may develop over months or years, but in contrast to acute kidney injury is not usually reversible, and dialysis is regarded as a holding measure until a renal transplant can be performed, or sometimes as the only supportive measure in those for whom a transplant would be inappropriate.

Dialysis unit at IEC is located on the 1st floor of building 13. Currently only in-patient dialysis facility is provided but will soon start offering out-patient dialysis services.