Registered Nurse - Homecare

Role Overview

Registered Nurse - Homecare with NMC Healthcare, providing patient-centered nursing care in home-based settings.

Role Purpose

Deliver comprehensive nursing care to patients in homecare environments, including assessment, treatment, monitoring, and coordination across an interprofessional healthcare team while maintaining clinical excellence and patient safety.

Key Responsibilities

Patient Assessment & Care Planning

• Perform systematic patient assessment, reassessment, and collection of pertinent health data.
• Understand and analyze assessment information and data.
• Determine actual and potential nursing diagnoses, problems, and issues.
• Define predicted and expected outcomes of the patient's planned care.
• Create and evaluate patient care plans with the interprofessional team, in collaboration with the patient and patient's family members.

Patient Care Delivery

• Provide and coordinate patient care, educate patients and the public about various health conditions, and provide advice and emotional support to patients and their family members.
• Record vital signs, recognize, address, and escalate all abnormalities.
• Administer medications and monitor patients for any side effects and reactions.
• Administer treatments such as IV fluids or blood products and monitor patients for any reactions.
• Provide wound care management.
• Prepare patients for medical examination and treatment.
• Assist in medical procedures, invasive or non-invasive, as needed.

Clinical Practice & Competency

• Assess and identify patients' needs and implement and monitor the patient's medical plan and treatment, working with a team of physicians and other health care specialists or allied health in various settings.
• Maintain and update technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice.
• Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory examinations.
• Ensure competence in pain management.
• Perform essential life support as per regulatory requirements and scope, such as but not limited to Basic Life Support.

Safety & Health Promotion

• Employ strategies to promote patients' health and a safe environment.
• Facilitate the process of safe patient admission, transfer, and discharge.

Operational & Organizational

• Support the execution of business continuity plans by maintaining essential nursing services during emergencies, following established protocols to ensure patient safety, and collaborating with the healthcare team to sustain operational effectiveness.
• Actively participate in performance improvement and continuous quality improvement.
• Participate across departments when necessary.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing from an accredited institution in home country.
• Minimum of 2 years of clinical experience, including recent assignment in ICU, Critical Care, long-term care unit, or equivalent experience within Homecare settings in the same cluster.
• Appropriate license to work as a registered nurse in the relevant regulatory health authority with all qualifications and experience these mandates.
• Valid American Heart Association Basic Life Support Provider card.
• Ability to manage own professional re-licensure.

Skills & Competencies

• Clear and effective communication in English (spoken and written).
• Ability to communicate effectively in Arabic (desirable).
• Organizational and administrative skills with use of electronic medical record platform for clinical documentation (desirable).
• Evidenced ability to work as part of an inter-professional team (desirable).