ITP Nurse at Taimaka

Main Purpose:

• Provide nursing care, and institute treatment of patients according to national protocols, universal hygienic standards, and other procedures, to ensure a good delivery of care in the Inpatient Therapeutic Feeding Program (ITP)

Responsibilities:

• Implement and follow the universal hygiene standards, biohazard, Prevention and infection control, security rules, and other protocols and procedures regarding nursing and children's nutrition matters.
• Organize and carry out care and treatments according to medical prescriptions and assist them during consultations/ daily rounds and other medical procedures.
• Supervise the daily activities of the nutrition assistants to ensure patients are given the right feed, quantity, and timely.
• Ensure triage of patients in waiting areas, detect the priority acute cases, carry out first aid care when necessary, and refer them to the physician where necessary.
• Carry out all patient-related tasks for admission, weighing and measuring the children, identifying the degree and types of malnutrition, administration (patient card, register, etc.
• Ensure that medical and nutritional care is properly delivered to the patients and to daily follow the progress of the patients.
• Follow-up on patients’ medical and nutritional evolution, identifying possible emergencies arising, and keeping doctors informed if necessary.
• Provide advice and inform children’s families about everything concerning the hospitalization, participate in the health education of the mothers, and/or treatment process.
• Participate in department-related pharmacy and medical equipment control and maintenance
• Control all pharmacy, food, and medical equipment (carrying out inventories, checking its quality and functioning, storage conditions, doing follow-up of expired drugs, etc.).
• Carry out and supervise administrative procedures and documents (fill in patients' files, forms, statistics, etc.), ensure an appropriate written/oral handover, and report any problematic situations and cases arising.
• Cover the gap of nurse colleagues when required in the project.
• This position profile can be modified, depending on the evolution of the job
•  In addition to the tasks listed above, the nurse may be required to perform other tasks assigned by the supervisor as required by the mission

Requirements

• Education: Nursing diploma/BSc Nursing with nutritional training essential.
• Experience: Previous experience required. Experience with NGO desirable.            
• Languages: English and the local language are essential.

Location: Gombe State: Deba and Bajoga to be precise.