Nurses who wish to work in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates(UAE) would always encounter the word HAAD certificate as one of the major requirements. The emirate of Abu Dhabirequires all medical professionals who wish to work in their area of jurisdiction to be registered at Health Authority Abu Dhabi (HAAD).

It aims to provide a solid foundation for licensing health professionals in Abu Dhabi by the use of assessment tools that measure core and specialist competencies required for each professional group.

The HAAD certificate gives a nurse or other medical workers the license to practice their profession in Abu Dhabi. Nurses who took and passed the HAAD-RN exam can legally be deployed in any private health care facilities in Abu Dhabi. In a lot of ways, the HAAD is similar to National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN).  

The HAAD exam can be taken in any Pearson Vue testing centers, the same system that conducts the examination for NCLEX.

The HAAD-RN Exam

The HAAD-RN exam is composed of 150 multiple choice items. One must answer all questions in 180 minutes or 3 hours.

The test items in HAAD are quite similar to NCLEX so those who are about to take the HAAD exam can use the review materials for NCLEX. Nurses who have taken the HAAD-RN exam said that it is a lot easier than NCLEX. However, it doesn’t mean that it is very easy too. The questions in HAAD-RN exam aim to show the nurses’ basic and fundamental knowledge about the nursing profession.

Topics and Questions that may be asked in HAAD-RN exam:

• Congenital heart defects (cyanotic or acyanotic), heart auscultation sound or murmur
• Vfib, Afib, Vtach, SVT and corresponding drugs like amiodarone, lidocaine, atropine sulfate etc.

• Diabetes Mellitus, also insulins (their peak hours), hypoglycemia

• CHF

• Pancreatitis

• Diabetes Insipidus

• Drugs like Inderal, digoxin, asthma drugs, mannitol
  
  
• COPD
  
  
• BPUD (gastic and duodenal)
  
  
• Fundamentals: charting, erasure of wrong-entry of data, drug preparation and administration, drug computation, IVF computation, NGT feeding
  
  
• Pain management
  
  
• Dehydration in infant/children
  Maternal nursing: boggy uterus, abortion
  Nsg. intervention for increased ICP

• Wound dressing and healing
  
  
• Stages of burns
  
  
• Psychia: days before the effectivity of antipsychotic drugs, bipolar mood dso., antisocial personality disorder, defense mechanisms

• CPR, choking (BLS)
  
  
• Cellulitis
  
  
• Nephrotic syndrome
  
  
• CAT scan, x-ray
  
  
• AnaPhysio of skeletal system
  
  
• Thyroidectomy
  
  
• Total hip replacement

• Ventricular fibrillation
  
  
• Obsessive Compulsive disorder, Manic disorder

• Evidence- based Nursing

• Computation and conversion mg-mcg then desire dose/stock dose x ml
  
  
• IV drip rate computation ml/hr
  
  
• Nursing Care Plan/SOAPIE
  
  
• Senior Nurse liability if mentoring the junior nurse.
  
  
• Cardiac Problems
  Insulin