Registered Nurse- Homecare

Role Overview

Registered Nurse – Homecare at NMC Healthcare, providing nursing care to clients in home and community settings.

Role Purpose

Deliver clinical nursing care, monitor patient health status, administer treatments, and coordinate with physicians and families to support clients' nursing needs in homecare environments.

Key Responsibilities

Clinical Care & Monitoring

• Monitor and record vital signs and report abnormal values to treating physicians.
• Administer prescribed medications.
• Monitor intravenous infusions and parenteral therapies.
• Provide care for clients with tracheostomy, gastrostomy, and colostomy.
• Carry out nursing care for clients with pacemaker, peritoneal dialysis, and clients on ventilator.
• Deliver nursing care to clients with hemiplegia, paraplegia, Bell's palsy, cerebral palsy, terminal illness, and elderly clients.
• Provide care for newborns, pre- and post-partum mothers.
• Provide care for physically challenged clients and those requiring special care at home or at their educational facility.
• Care for patient wounds to prevent exacerbation of pressure ulcers.

Patient Support & Mobility

• Deliver simple exercises, assist with ambulation, and accompany clients to social gatherings, hospitals, other treatment facilities, and outdoors.

Documentation & Reporting

• Prepare clinical and progress notes.
• Report and record medical events, procedures, and other medical parameters.
• Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, and problems in order to report and discuss observations with a supervisor, case manager, or Medical Doctor.

Coordination & Communication

• Coordinate services and act as liaison between treating physician and other personnel regarding changes in the client's condition and family members.
• Counsel clients and families in meeting nursing and related needs.

Team & Professional Development

• Supervise and teach other nursing personnel.
• Participate in in-service programs.

Qualifications & Experience

Education

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing from an accredited school of nursing in home country (Essential).

Experience

• 2 to 5 years working experience as RN (Essential).

Certification & Licensure

• Current valid registration in country of training and/or country of last employment (Essential).
• Eligible for DOH / DHA / MOH licensing (Essential).
• Active Basic Life Support training (Essential).
• ACLS – Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (for adult patients) (Preferred).
• PALS – Pediatric Advanced Life Support (for pediatric patients) (Preferred).
• Critical care qualification (Preferred).
• Pediatric qualification (for pediatrics RN) (Preferred).

Skills & Competencies

• Homecare and clinical skills.
• Bedside manner.
• Infection control.
• Nursing skills.
• Physiological knowledge.
• Administering medication.
• Medical teamwork.
• Multi-tasking.
• Listening.
• Verbal communication.
• Health promotion and maintenance.
• Ability to speak Arabic.
• Teaching and assessing (Preferred).