Registered Nurse – Homecare
Job Description
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
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| ESSENTIAL | PREFERRED | |
| Education | · Bachelor of Science in Nursing from an accredited school of nursing in home country | · Critical care qualification |
| · Active Basic Life Support training | · Pediatric qualification (for pediatrics RN) | |
| · ACLS (for adult patients) | ||
| · PALS (for pediatric patients) | ||
| · Teaching and assessing | ||
| Experience | · 2 to 5 Years working experience as RN | |
| 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 |
