Nurse at Medecins Sans Frontieres

Job Description

• Implementing and always following the universal hygiene standards, security rules and other protocols and procedures regarding nursing and children nutrition matters.
• Ensuring proper functioning of the Therapeutic Program. This includes:
• Daily collecting the number of new admissions and exits and to check the attendance
• Calculating the quantity of food needed for the day based on the number of children registered
• Ensuring triage of patients in waiting areas, detecting the priority acute cases, carrying out first aid care when necessary and referring them to the doctor if necessary.
• Carrying-out all patient’s related tasks for the admission, weighing and measuring the children, identifying the degree and types of malnutrition, administration (patient card, register,) etc.
• Ensuring that medical and nutritional care is properly delivered to the patients and to daily follow the evolution of the patients.
• Carrying-out consultations to children and their parents, undertaking a complete clinical examination of children, looking for associated pathologies, drawing up nutritional surveillance forms and milk cards, providing required vaccination, etc.
• Carrying-out surveillance and follow-up of patients’ medical and nutritional evolution, identifying possible emergency situations arising and keeping doctors informed if necessary.
• Providing advice and inform children’s families about everything concerning the hospitalization, participate in the health education of the mothers and/or treatment process.
• Controlling all pharmacy, food, and medical equipment (carrying out inventories, checking its quality and its functioning, storage conditions, doing follow-up of expired drugs, etc.)
• Carrying-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.
• Performing minor maintenance and cleaning of the biomedical equipment following user manual and protocols. Alerting the supervisor in case of malfunctioning of any device.
• Ensure supervision and training of a team (Nurse assistant, CHEWs, and milk preparers).
• Responsible for ordering therapeutic food under supervision by the supervisor.
• Responsible for pharmacy order under supervision by the supervisor.
• Responsible for ensuring monitoring, evaluation and reporting of the nutrition program using MSF and HIS nutrition databases and nutritional surveys.
• Make sure that all medical materials are clean and working. Together with the IPC, ensure that the medical equipment that need sterilization/high disinfection is brought/taken from/to the sterilization area every day. Inform immediately the Ward supervisor if some medical materials are missing or are broken.
• Make sure every bed is cleaned after every discharge and prepared for the next patient.
• Ensure a proper handover of the patients and biomed is done.
• Ensures proper use of the PPE while performing certain procedures to prevent infections and transmission of diseases.
• Follow universal infection procedures e.g., Hand washing Hygiene in between patient care.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess an OND qualification with a minimum of 2 years experience.