Mrs. Mutaira Al Busaidi
Community Health Nurse
National Coordinator of Elderly Care and Community Health Service in the Directorate General of Primary Health Care,
Oman Ministry of Health
Mrs. Mutaira Al Busaidi is one of the first Community Health Nurses who graduated with a Bachelor degree from Cardiff University in year 2013. Currently, Mrs. Mutaira is the National Coordinator of Elderly Care and Community Health Service in the Directorate General of Primary Health Care at the Ministry of Health in Oman, where she is directing, supervising, monitoring and evaluating elderly care and community health service at a national level.
She participates in organizing and conducting awareness programs, campaigns and activities related to elderly care and community health services in Muscat and other governorates in Oman. She is a member in many national task forces and committees that are working on the planning and improvement of elderly care service and community health nursing service and primary health care services. In addition, she is working as community health nurse providing evidence-based care for all patients in community settings.
Mrs. Al Busaidi has also participated in developing community health education materials, such as prevention of pressure ulcers in home settings leaflet. To further strengthen, her contribution into the service, she has been elected to take a leadership position by chairing the Community Health Services and Primary Health Care Professional Core Group of the Directorate General of Nursing Affairs (DGNA) in the Ministry of Health since 2013. The group started by using the previous scope of practice that was developed by the former Oman Nursing and Midwifery Council. Currently, she is working with her colleagues on developing the job description, the national policies, and the standards of care and services provision system for people of Oman.
She is a member in the child protection initiative in Wilayat Seeb that aims to educate people about child rights and child protection against different types of abuse. She is also involved in the Oman Cancer Association to help in integrating palliative care service in to the community health service and to help people who are dealing with terminal illnesses to cope and control the pain and signs and symptoms of the diseases. In addition, to improve her community services and leadership roles, she has participated in several workshops and educational events. She presented lectures on the role of Community Nurses in different health care fields in national and international conferences and seminars and participated in educating nursing students by conducting lectures about community health service and home visits based on their curriculum.
Furthermore, she was a preceptor for two batches of BSc community health nursing students for 2 years and a preceptor of nurses who were under a primary health care training program for more than 3 years. She is also a co-author of the first paper that was published about Community Health Nursing in Oman (2014) and about Palliative care in Oman (2015). She has been nominated by the DGNA to represent community nurses in the GCC nursing conference in the State of Kuwait in 2017. Currently she collaborating with her collages in the DGPHC and DGNA in initiating community health service in all governorates. In addition, she is working in organizing a national wound management training for all community nurses over the country and in collaboration with specialized nurses in wound management in Khoula hospital and Bawshar polyclinic under a sponsorship of private company.
