Registered Nurse - Homecare

Principal Accountabilities:

1. 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

2. 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