How Nigerian Nurse Can Get Registered As A Registered Nurse In GCC, Qatar in Particular

As a Registered Nurse in Nigeria, it is easy and possible for you to work as a Registered Nurse in the Gulf Countries by following the under listed steps.

Gulf Countries are the six (6) countries that lies around the Arabian gulf coasts, these are majorly Arabs, which includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and The United Arab Emirates.

For you to qualify to work effectively as a Registered Nurse in Qatar, you need to register with the Department of Healthcare Professions (DHP), Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) and obtain the Qatar Council of Healthcare Practitioners (QCHP) license and you must follow the below guidelines:

1. Update Your PUF

2. Your practicing License must be valid (at least six (6) months validity).

3. Carryout your Verification (Primary Source Verification) by Dataflow 

4. Register and sit for the Prometric Examination 

5. Look for job and migrates to Qatar or Migrate to Qatar and look for job.

1. Update Your PUF:

Professional Update Form(PUF), is the update of your professional status to your Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN) portal.

a. If you have not done your PUF at all, you can carryout your PUF on NMCN portal by clicking HERE or by visiting portal.nmcn.gov.ng.

Sample of the PUF form from the NMCN portal.

b. If you have uploaded your PUF but you want to update your details, like change of employer, additional certificate, change of name, renewal of license, request for foreign license verification, etc

Click HERE or visit licence.nmcn.gov.ng

Click on the three lines at the top-right corner , to login 

Supply your username and password and submit 

c. If you are not sure, if you have uploaded your PUF 

Click HERE or visit licence.nmcn.gov.ng

Click on the three lines at the top-right corner , to Register.

Supply your specialty, Registration Number and Surname and 

Click on Send me code, a code will be send to you 

Insert the code

Insert your New password 

Click submit 

Once your PUF details have been updated, you can move to the next stage.

2. Your practicing License must be valid (at least six (6) months validity).

Make sure your Health (NMCN) license is valid for the next six months from the date you want to start the process. If not, wait until you renew your license before you begin. 

You can check the validity of your license physically or on your NMCN portal by:

Click HERE or visit licence.nmcn.gov.ng

Click on the three lines at the top-right corner , to login 

Supply your username and password and submit 

The License validity will be displayed on the third square

Once your license is valid, let us move to the next stage.

3. Carryout your Verification (Primary Source Verification) by Dataflow

Primary Source Verification in the Gulf Countries most especially in Qatar is carried out by Dataflow. Dataflow is the agency that is in charge of Verification in Qatar.

Before your begin your verification or Dataflow (as people always call it), make sure you have the following documents in place:

a. International passport 

b. Health license by NMCN 

c. Professional Certificate(s) {RN, RM, BNSc etc every certificate on you NMCN portal}

d. Certificate or Statement of employment (from your employer) within five (5) years experience 

e. Transcript from one of your academic institution (student's copy).

f. Functional email address 

g. You are to pay the prescribed fees

Once all the above documents are in place, you can proceed with your Verification/Dataflow.

Note: If there is no issue, the report will be ready within 28 days

ii. Always check your email, Incase you will need to add some documents 

4. Register and sit for the Prometric Examination

Like CBT and OSSCE in UK and NCLEX in USA, Prometric is the professional examination for all health practitioner that wanted to work in Qatar or any Gulf Countries. Prometric examination is a 150 MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions) for 3 hours, candidate are expected to score at least 50%. Failure to achieve the 50%, the candidate will need to resear for the examination and he/she has only 5 attempt in the Prometric examination (Saudi Arabia has 3 attempt) for Nurses.

Note: You need your international passport to register for this examination 

ii. You are to pay the prescribed fees 

5. Look for job and migrates to Qatar or Migrate to Qatar and look for job.

After your Positive Dataflow report and Pass Prometric results, you can proceed to migrating to Qatar (if you are not in the country) or begin searching for jobs (job hunting) and get prepared to Migrate.

Note

If you have any questions and enquiry, feel free to send an email to eagleseyeupdate@gmail.com or drop your comment 

Best of luck in all your endeavors 👍