وصف الوظيفة
Role Overview
Registered Nurse - Homecare at NMC Healthcare. This role provides direct patient care to both adult and pediatric patients in the homecare setting, delivering evidence-based nursing assessment, care planning, implementation, interventions and evaluations from admission through discharge.
Role Purpose
Deliver high-quality clinical nursing care to homecare patients across the lifespan, including complex medical conditions and special needs. Act as a liaison between treating physicians, family members, and other healthcare personnel to coordinate services and communicate changes in patient condition.
Key Responsibilities
Clinical Assessment and Monitoring
- Monitor and record vital signs, reporting abnormal values to treating physicians.
- Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, and problems to report and discuss observations with supervisors, case managers, or Medical Doctors.
- Report and record medical events, procedures, and other medical parameters.
Medication and Therapy Administration
- Administer prescribed medications.
- Monitor intravenous infusions and parenteral therapies.
Specialized Patient Care
- Provide nursing care to clients with tracheostomy, gastrostomy, and colostomy.
- Carry out nursing care for clients with pacemakers, peritoneal dialysis, and clients on ventilators.
- Deliver nursing care to clients with hemiplegia, paraplegia, Bell's palsy, cerebral palsy, terminal illness, and elderly clients.
- Care for newborns and pre- and post-partum mothers.
- Provide care to physically challenged clients and those requiring special care at home or in educational facilities.
- Manage patient wounds to prevent exacerbation of pressure ulcers.
Rehabilitation and Mobility Support
- Deliver simple exercises and assist with ambulation.
- Accompany clients to social gatherings, hospitals, other treatment facilities, and outdoors.
Documentation and Coordination
- Prepare clinical and progress notes.
- Coordinate services and work as liaison between treating physician, other personnel, family members, and clients regarding changes in condition.
Teaching and Supervision
- Counsel clients and families in meeting nursing and related needs.
- Participate in in-service programs.
- Supervise and teach other nursing personnel.
Qualifications & Experience
Education
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing from an accredited school of nursing in home country.
Certification and Training
- Active Basic Life Support training.
- Current valid registration in country of training and/or country of last employment.
- Eligible for DOH / DHA / MOH licensing.
- Critical care qualification (preferred).
- Pediatric qualification for pediatrics RN (preferred).
- ACLS for adult patients (preferred).
- PALS for pediatric patients (preferred).
Experience
- 2 to 5 years working experience as RN.
- Teaching and assessing experience (preferred).
Skills & Competencies
- Homecare and clinical skills.
- Bedside manner.
- Infection control.
- Nursing skills.
- Physiological knowledge.
- Administering medication.
- Medical teamwork.
- Multi-tasking.
- Listening and verbal communication.
- Health promotion and maintenance.
- Arabic language proficiency.
Additional Information
- A registered nurse is recognized as a responsible and accountable professional with DOH (Department of Health).
- Able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served.