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Falisha Manpower recruits nurses and midwives from Pakistan for hospitals, specialist centres, polyclinics, home-care providers and industrial site clinics in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain. A request might be a group of ICU nurses for a new critical-care wing, a ward team for a hospital opening in phases, or one occupational health nurse for a remote facility. Falisha holds OEP Licence No. 4035 from the Bureau of Emigration & Overseas Employment, so every hire moves through Pakistan’s regulated emigration route, from the employment contract to Protector of Emigrants clearance.
Nursing is a licensed profession at both ends of the journey, and that shapes the whole search. In Pakistan a nurse must be registered with the Pakistan Nursing & Midwifery Council (PNMC) to practise. In the Gulf, a nurse is licensed by the health regulator responsible for the facility, normally after the documents have been verified at source and a licensing exam passed, and always under a specific title that depends on the qualification. Saudi Arabia’s SCFHS, for example, classifies diploma-trained nurses as Nurse Technicians and bachelor’s-qualified nurses as Nurse Specialists. So the first question is not only which unit the nurse will work in, but which licence title the post needs.
We source from a working pool of registered-nurse profiles in our candidate portal and run targeted searches by specialty for each brief. Registration is checked with PNMC, degrees go through Higher Education Commission (HEC) attestation, and the primary source verification your regulator requires is started as soon as a nurse is selected, because licensing is usually the longest stage. Clinical interviews are led by your nursing director. Falisha prepares and coordinates the paperwork; the regulators make their own licensing decisions.
Roles & specialisations
Matched to your specification and the work itself, not just a job title.
The core of most hospital requests: registered nurses who handle admissions, medication rounds, wound care, post-operative observation and discharge teaching on an adult ward. Name the ward type — general medicine, surgery, orthopaedics, cardiology — because routines and patient acuity differ widely between them.
Nurses for adult intensive care and high-dependency units who look after ventilated patients, invasive monitoring and vasoactive infusions at one-to-one or one-to-two ratios. Coronary and cardiac care units are a closely related request with their own monitoring and post-procedure routines.
Nurses for triage, resuscitation, trauma and the steady flow of urgent cases, often across adult and paediatric patients in the same shift. Employers commonly ask for advanced life support certificates such as ACLS and PALS on top of Basic Life Support.
Scrub and circulating nurses who prepare instruments, keep the sterile field, count swabs and sharps and support the surgical team, together with recovery (post-anaesthesia care) nurses. State the surgical lists — general, orthopaedic, obstetric, cardiac — since theatre experience is specific to them.
Neonatal intensive care nurses for premature and sick newborns in incubators, on ventilation or under phototherapy, and paediatric nurses who care for children and work closely with their parents. The UAE and Bahrain list neonatal and paediatric nursing as separate specialty titles, so treat them as separate requests.
Haemodialysis nurses who cannulate fistulas, set up and monitor machines, manage fluid balance and respond to complications during a session, in hospital renal units or standalone dialysis centres. Peritoneal dialysis is a separate skill worth stating if your service offers it.
Nurses who administer chemotherapy and other systemic anti-cancer treatment, handle cytotoxic drugs safely, manage central venous access devices and support patients through side effects, in day-care units and cancer wards.
Midwives who manage normal labour and birth with antenatal and postnatal care, and nurses who staff labour wards alongside obstetric teams. In Pakistan, registered nurses can add a one-year midwifery diploma and a bachelor’s in midwifery also exists; Qatar and Bahrain license midwives on a midwifery qualification plus three years’ midwifery or labour-and-delivery practice, so check each candidate against the title you need.
Nurses for clinics at oil and gas facilities, plants, construction camps and remote sites, who give first response to injuries and illness, run routine treatment, keep occupational health records and arrange medical evacuation, sometimes with the doctor available by phone rather than on site. Bahrain’s NHRA lists occupational health nursing as a recognised specialty title.
Experienced registered nurses who run a shift or a unit: allocating patients, checking documentation and medication safety, handling escalations and incidents and supporting newer staff. Ask for the role to appear in experience letters, because charge responsibility is sometimes given without a formal title.
Before you hire
The distinctions that decide whether a hire works on your project.
These are different jobs with different licences. A registered nurse holds a full licence and works independently within its scope. Assistant and practical nurses hold a narrower one: the UAE’s unified Professional Qualification Requirements (PQR) and Bahrain’s NHRA both state that they cannot work independently and must work under a registered nurse. Caregivers and home-care aides are not licensed nurses at all. PNMC’s own programmes include a two-year Certified Nursing Assistant diploma, formerly titled Licensed Practical Nurse. Tell us which category the post is, so nobody is recruited into a title they cannot be licensed for.
PNMC’s curriculum page marks the three-year General Nursing Diploma as closed by 2018, so newer nurses qualify through the four-year Generic BSN. Nurses who trained earlier may hold the diploma with a one-year midwifery or post-basic specialty diploma, and some have since completed the two-year Post-RN BSN. Regulators read these differently: SCFHS classifies a diploma of at least three years as Nurse Technician and a bachelor’s as Nurse Specialist; Qatar accepts a three-year diploma taken after twelve years of schooling for its Registered General Nurse title; and the 2022 edition of the UAE’s PQR sets a bachelor’s in nursing for Registered Nurse, with diplomas of eighteen months or more leading to Assistant Nurse. Match qualification to title before shortlisting.
Regulators count hands-on clinical experience in salaried employment — not observerships or volunteering — and verify it with the employer. SCFHS wants an employment letter issued within the previous three months that states the specialty, professional category and start date, and Bahrain’s NHRA requires a continuous six months of practice within the last three years. A specialty title on the licence usually takes more: NHRA ties its specialist nurse titles to a post-registration specialty qualification, and the UAE’s PQR lets the authorities grant specialization privileges after at least four years in the specialty. Ask for unit-specific letters from each hospital’s nursing administration, not a CV that lists specialties.
Interviews can be completed quickly; licensing has several steps that each take time. The nurse applies to PNMC for a verification-of-registration or good-standing letter addressed to your regulator. Degrees, experience letters and registration go through primary source verification — DataFlow Group lists SCFHS, DHA, DOH Abu Dhabi, MOHAP, Qatar’s Department of Healthcare Professions, OMSB and NHRA among the bodies it verifies for. Then comes the licensing exam, and finally the licence, which in Dubai and Qatar is activated or issued only through a licensed facility. DHA and NHRA accept good-standing certificates only if no older than six months, so the order of steps matters.
The setting changes the profile. Hospital units want recent experience with a matching patient group. Outpatient clinics and polyclinics value broad assessment skills and patient education. Home-care nursing means working alone in patients’ homes, so judgement, documentation and communication with families matter more; the UAE’s PQR lists home care among its recognised nursing specialty titles. Site and industrial clinics need nurses confident in emergency response and occupational health records, and the clinic itself must be a licensed health facility, since DHA activates a nurse’s licence through a licensed facility and Qatar issues it only once the facility is licensed.
Your requirement
The more precise the brief, the more precise the shortlist. Anything you are unsure of, we work out with you.
Standards & qualifications
Qualifications, codes and licences candidates may hold or be assessed against — you decide which apply.
PNMC — the Pakistan Nursing Council until a 2023 amendment to the Pakistan Nursing Council Act 1973 — registers nurses, midwives and lady health visitors, and registration is a legal requirement to practise in Pakistan. Generic BSN graduates must complete a one-year internship before registering, and older cards may still carry the PNC name. Verification and good-standing requests from foreign regulators go through PNMC’s verification-of-registration application.
Nurses apply through the Mumaris Plus portal for professional classification and then registration, which is valid for two years. SCFHS asks for qualification authentication by its approved verification company, a valid home registration with a verification letter, and at least one year’s experience from most non-Saudi applicants. Bachelor’s-qualified nurses sit the Saudi Nursing Licensure Examination at SCFHS-approved Prometric centres, which include centres outside the Kingdom.
The Ministry of Health and Prevention, the Department of Health Abu Dhabi, Dubai Health Authority and Sharjah Health Authority license against a shared PQR. It calls for primary source verification, a good-standing certificate no older than six months, a valid BLS certificate and the authority’s licensing exam, conducted in English. DOH candidates pay in its TAMM portal and schedule with Pearson VUE; in Dubai, a registration becomes a licence only when a DHA-licensed facility activates it.
Qatar’s Ministry of Public Health evaluates nurses through an online application approved by the employer’s representative. Its nurse guidelines ask registered general nurses for two years’ post-registration clinical experience and a Prometric qualifying exam, accept the primary source verification report in place of certificate attestation, and require the good-standing certificate to be sent directly by the registering authority. An NCLEX pass within the previous five years exempts the exam.
The Oman Medical Specialty Board runs the occupational classification exams that candidates sit to work for the Ministry of Health and other health institutions, and which are used for licensing. Nurses take separate exams for BSN and diploma holders, delivered at OMSB’s national test centre and at Pearson VUE centres worldwide.
NHRA makes its Bahrain Nursing Licensure Examination compulsory except for Bahraini or GCC nationals holding a valid GCC licence, requires primary source verification and a good-standing certificate no older than six months, and asks overseas general nurses for at least one year’s experience after qualification and registration. Overseas nurses with a practice gap of three years or more cannot apply for a new licence.
Assessment
Arranged to your criteria before you interview, so you evaluate ability rather than a CV.
Each nurse’s PNMC (or older PNC) registration card is collected and the status confirmed through PNMC’s online licence verification. Once a nurse is selected, the PNMC verification-of-registration application addressed to your regulator is prepared with the nurse — PNMC has warned that requests with incomplete requirements stay pending.
BSN degrees and transcripts go through HEC’s online attestation, in which the awarding university confirms the degree and nursing applicants upload their PNMC registration card. Diplomas, midwifery and post-basic certificates and experience letters are assembled for the primary source verification your regulator uses.
Experience letters are reviewed for unit, professional category, dates and continuity against your regulator’s rules — recent continuous practice, gap-of-practice limits and, for Saudi Arabia, an employment letter less than three months old. Gaps and inconsistencies are flagged to you before the shortlist.
Your director of nursing or unit manager interviews shortlisted nurses on scenarios from your own unit — a post-operative patient whose blood pressure is falling, a high-alert medication order that looks wrong, a ventilator alarm during handover, a labouring woman whose trace changes. Falisha schedules the interviews and supplies the candidate files; your panel sets the questions and scores the answers.
Medication-calculation papers, care-plan and documentation exercises, and skills demonstrations such as a resuscitation scenario can be arranged at a nursing college or skills laboratory in Pakistan, to criteria your nursing department sets. Your nurse educator can observe in person or by video.
How it works
From your requirement to workers on site.
We confirm the regulator, licence title, unit, experience, qualifications, life-support certificates, headcount and start dates, and map the licensing steps for that title before sourcing begins.
We search the registered-nurse profiles in our candidate portal and run targeted sourcing for the specialty and qualification your licence title needs, rather than advertising a general nursing vacancy.
PNMC registration, qualifications, experience letters and any practice gaps are reviewed against your regulator’s requirements, and nurses who could not be licensed under the title are set aside.
Your nursing director interviews the shortlist by video or during a visit to Pakistan, with any written or practical components you require, and you decide who receives an offer.
For each selected nurse we prepare the PNMC verification application, HEC attestation and the primary source verification submission, and support the nurse in booking the licensing exam through the regulator’s test-centre network.
The nurse sits the licensing exam, the regulator issues its decision, and the licence is issued or activated through your facility. If a nurse needs another attempt, we tell you straight away so the timeline can be reset.
Each nurse completes the medical the destination requires; we lodge the work-visa file and obtain BEOE and Protector of Emigrants clearance before departure.
Nurses travel with original certificates and licensing documents, timed to your orientation programme, so they can complete facility induction and your competency sign-off before taking a full patient load.
Sourcing
Nursing in Pakistan is regulated by PNMC, registration status can be looked up online, and BSN degrees are confirmed by the awarding university during HEC attestation, so the qualification behind a profile can be traced before it reaches your regulator.
Since the General Nursing Diploma closed, new nurses have qualified through the four-year Generic BSN, which admits students with pre-medical intermediate science and requires a one-year internship before registration — the bachelor’s level Gulf regulators link to their registered nurse and nurse specialist titles.
SCFHS delivers the Saudi Nursing Licensure Examination at approved Prometric centres internationally, and OMSB delivers its nursing exams at Pearson VUE centres worldwide, so nurses bound for Saudi Arabia or Oman can complete the exam stage before travelling, subject to centre availability when booking.
Pay & terms
The employer decides nurses’ pay and fixes it in the employment contract. Specialty, years in the unit, shift and on-call patterns, and housing and transport arrangements all shape the package — and so does the licence. The title a regulator grants limits the post a nurse can hold; Bahrain’s NHRA, for instance, tells facilities not to employ a nurse above the category it has licensed. Set the offer for the title the nurse will actually receive.
Licensing carries costs and waiting time: primary source verification, exam fees, the PNMC verification letter, licence issue and, in Dubai, the malpractice insurance DHA requires. Agree in writing who pays each item. Recruitment-related costs should be met by the employer, nurses must never be charged unlawful fees, and the agreed terms belong in the contract submitted for Protector of Emigrants clearance.
Keeping the licence current is part of the package. DHA sets twenty CPD points a year for nurses, Bahrain’s NHRA asks nurses for twenty CPD hours a year, and Qatar will not accept a renewal until CPD requirements are met — so study leave, in-house education and help with renewals support retention beyond the first contract.
Compliance & trust
Falisha Manpower recruits under Overseas Employment Promoter Licence No. 4035, issued by the Bureau of Emigration & Overseas Employment (BEOE), Government of Pakistan.
Every selected worker is processed through BEOE and Protector of Emigrants formalities before departure — the legal route for Pakistani workers taking overseas employment.
Workers are not charged unlawful fees and their passports are not retained. Terms are documented in the employment contract before travel.
You set the specification and the acceptance criteria, and you make every final hiring decision — we source, coordinate, document and mobilise.
Read our quality policy, anti-trafficking statement, or report recruitment fraud. Licence status can be checked with the BEOE.
Sectors
Destinations
Subject to active employer demand and each destination’s visa and work-permit requirements.
FAQ
References: PNMC: Verification of registration / good standing certificate · SCFHS: Professional classification requirements · Dubai Health Authority: Unified Healthcare Professional Qualification Requirements (2022) · Qatar Ministry of Public Health, DHP: Guidelines for Nurses · Oman Medical Specialty Board: OC examinations · NHRA Bahrain: Nursing Professionals Qualification Requirements · NHS Employers: Code of Practice red and amber list of countries · WHO: Health workforce support and safeguards list (Q&A) · Germany: § 38 Employment Regulation (BeschV)
Last updated 10 November 2026. General guidance for employers; destination rules change, so requirements are confirmed for each recruitment.
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