Registered Nurse - Homecare

Principal Accountabilities:

• Prepares clinical and progress notes, coordinates services, work as liaison between treating physician and other personnel of changes in the client's condition and family members

• Counsels the clients and family in meeting nursing and related needs, participates in in- service programs, and supervises and teaches other nursing personnel

Specific

• Monitoring and recording vital signs and reporting to the treating physicians for the abnormal values

• Administering prescribed medications

• Monitoring intravenous infusions and parenteral therapies

• Caring of clients with Tracheostomy, gastrostomy and colostomy

• Carrying out nursing care to clients with Pace maker, peritoneal dialysis , and clients on ventilator

• Delivering Nursing care of clients with hemiplegic, paraplegic, Bells palsy, cerebral palsy, terminally ill, and elderly etc.

• Caring new born, pre and post-partum mothers

• Caring of clients with physically challenged and those who need special care at home or at their educational facility

• Delivering simple exercises, helping in ambulation and accompanying clients to social gathering, hospitals, other treatment facilities and out doors

• Caring for the wound of the patient in order to prevent exacerbation of pressure ulcers

• Reporting and recording of 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 or case manager, or Medical Doctor.

Responsibilities

Principal Accountabilities:

• Prepares clinical and progress notes, coordinates services, work as liaison between treating physician and other personnel of changes in the client's condition and family members

• Counsels the clients and family in meeting nursing and related needs, participates in in- service programs, and supervises and teaches other nursing personnel

Specific

• Monitoring and recording vital signs and reporting to the treating physicians for the abnormal values

• Administering prescribed medications

• Monitoring intravenous infusions and parenteral therapies

• Caring of clients with Tracheostomy, gastrostomy and colostomy

• Carrying out nursing care to clients with Pace maker, peritoneal dialysis , and clients on ventilator

• Delivering Nursing care of clients with hemiplegic, paraplegic, Bells palsy, cerebral palsy, terminally ill, and elderly etc.

• Caring new born, pre and post-partum mothers

• Caring of clients with physically challenged and those who need special care at home or at their educational facility

• Delivering simple exercises, helping in ambulation and accompanying clients to social gathering, hospitals, other treatment facilities and out doors

• Caring for the wound of the patient in order to prevent exacerbation of pressure ulcers

• Reporting and recording of 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 or case manager, or Medical Doctor.

Qualifications

8. QUALIFICATIONS, EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL

PREFERRED

Education

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing froman accredited school of nursing in home country

• Active Basic Life Support training

• Critical care qualification

• Pediatric qualification (for pediatrics RN)

• ACLS (for adult patients)

• PALS (for pediatric patients)

• Teaching and assessing

Experience

• 2 to 5 Years working experience asRN

Certification and Licensure

• Current valid registration in country of training and/or country of last employment

• Eligible for DOH / DHA / MOH licensing

Job Specific Knowledge and Skills

• Homecare & Clinical Skills, Bedside Manner, Infection Control, Nursing Skills, Physiological Knowledge, Administering Medication, Medical Teamwork, Multi-tasking, Listening, Verbal Communication, Health Promotion and Maintenance

• Able to speak Arabic