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Nursing services at health centers

  • First: Preventive Section
    1. Pre-marital Counseling
      • includes the provision of service on the verge of marriage in the interest of the Ministry of Health on a healthy society free of genetic diseases that can be avoided.
    2. Screening pregnant women
      • by providing special care for pregnant women ,operate by a doctor and a midwife specializing in the care of pregnant women.
    3. Postnatal screening
      • by providing comprehensive care for the mother and the family through the postnatal clinic and family planning six weeks after birth or abortion.
    4. Breast screening
      • by early breast screening in women aged 25 and above for the detection and diagnosis of breast cancer, choose the most appropriate treatment and therefore the result will be a better and less harmful and converting all women aged 40 and above and women with a family history, for the breast (Mammogram) to get more accurate results and continuous tracking.
    5. Periodic child screening
      • children are screened periodically on a schedule prepared by the Committee of maternal and child care for each age group its own screening to ensure that children receive appropriate preventive, mental health, physical and developmental, where such screening conducted some of these tests by the community health nurse and the other by a physician.
    6. Pre-school entry screening
      • Assessment of students health and commensurate examinations done for this age group.
    7. Pre intermediate screening
      • Healthy student is evaluated before entering the intermediate school and commensurate examinations done for this age group and ensure completion of the planned vaccinations.
    8. Fitness screening
      • Assessment of the health status of the customer by conducting some tests in which they are getting health fitness certificate.
    9. Health fitness screening
      • Providing health services for the home and the resident and in all stages of life, especially in the undergraduate and employment. Therefore, the program has been prepared for medical examinations comply with health and safety requirements for the same person and the community around it.
    10. Pilgrims screening
      • Providing preventive and curative services for pilgrims before traveling to perform Hajj.
    11. Housemaid working indoors screening
      • Providing preventive and curative services to prevent the spread of disease and ensure the safety of the family and the community.
    12. Vaccinating children
      • Providing immunizations, which helps in the prevention of communicable diseases. The Ministry of Health has provided special certificate kept with the family for a reference to the citizens and residents and to facilitate the flow of the immunization process.
    13. Periodic women screening
      • Providing care for women on a regular basis, where cervical screening done when women reach the age of thirty five years old, as well as breast screening be checked in order to avoid breast cancer tumors that may be the most common among women.
    14. Home visits
      • Providing therapeutic services by community health nurses, Department of Maternal and Child Welfare and by special terms for anyone who needs home care.
    15. Training nursing and medicine students
  • Second: the therapeutic section
    1. Treatment room services
      • among the services provided by the department: injections - oral medication - treatment of fever - cardiac resuscitation - ECG for the heart – opening the airway - ear washing – stopping bleeding nose - introduction of nasogastric and feeding tube - blood tests, urine and cervical tests- vital signs tests – wounds dressing - eye wash - mortality care – optometry - eye pressure test - ear pricing -body sampling for examination - help in surgical operation such as circumcision, installation of IUCD as contraception, Installation of a urinary catheter – etc
    2. Central Diabetes Clinic Services
      • assessing the case of diabetics in the clinic and follow-up and to provide guidance for nursing.
    3. Category service clinic
      • ensures the provision of appropriate care to patients in need and to reduce the waiting period for indigent patients., because it allows time to increase preventive services such as periodic women screening, adult education and child screening. It also helps to extend the time for consultation for the treatment of patients who need priority and helps capture hidden emergencies and reduce the waiting period.
    4. Medical & nursing services team
      • assessing the condition of the patient in the clinic by the nurse before entering the doctor.
    5. Quitting smoking clinic services
      • assess the status of smokers in the clinic, follow-up and provide the necessary health instructions through the screening, follow-up, counseling and treatment in a friendly atmosphere, allows the time in dialogue and consultation with the tobacco users and a clear plan adhered to by tobacco addicts to be cured completely, which may extend to two years to ensure the irreversibility to the deal.
    6. Chronic diseases clinic services
      • assess the status of patients with chronic diseases in the clinic, follow-up and provide the necessary health instructions.
    7. Sickle cell anemia clinic services
      • It is available in some health centers :Naeem – Bilad Al Qadeem - Budaiya – Jidhafs – Sitra – Ahmed Ali Kanoo – Hamad Town and Kuwait. The aim of this clinic is to facilitate an access to special service for patients with sickle cell's father and their families and the early detection of the disease to provide an appropriate treatment , rehabilitation of the patient care, awareness and seek treatment in a timely manner.
    8. Infection control Services
      • The unit responsibility include planning - Optimization - Routing - Application - Preventive and evaluation of all the health centers and health clinics in the Kingdom. The objective of the unit is to reduce the risk of picking up infections from the surrounding environment.
    9. Nursing quality services
      • The objective is improving the quality of services provided by the health centers nursing staff for patients and customers so that they meet the standards of the nursing rules that oversight and audit nursing operations provided to patients and customers and find out the opinion of the consumer through the reports submitted by them.
    10. Health clinic services and early detection of chronic diseases
      • It is available in some health centers: Hamad Kanoo – A. Rahman Yousif Engineer – Aali – Hidd and Arad .The clinic work as preventive screening for adults for early detection of chronic non-communicable diseases to prevent complications and to provide health guidance and nursing necessary.
    11. School health services
      • follow-up disease cases and educate the administrative and educational staff and parents of students with pathological symptoms and follow diets that are sold in schools.
    12. The mobile unit services for the elderly
      • providing therapeutic services by mobile unit nurses that are belongs to health centers by special conditions for anyone who needs home care.
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