Jobs at Borno State Ministry of Health and Human Services

Job Description

• Assisting in the nursing activities with hospitalised patients, according to nurses and doctors prescription, universal hygiene standards and protocols, standards and procedures in order to ensure the delivery of quality medical care for patient.

Responsibilities

• Assisting the nurse in organizing and providing care and treatments to patients, respecting at all times, the rules of hygiene, safety, comfort, dignity, medical secret and patient confidentiality.
• Giving response to nurse’s requirements in case of an emergency
• Participating in the surveillance and monitoring of the patient and reporting to the nurse any relevant information. Compensating patients’ possible lack of autonomy by assisting and helping them in feeding, personal hygiene, movements and general comfort
• Participating in the monitoring of nursing activities (correctly fill in patient files, etc.) and ensuring a relevant transfer of information between duty teams. Reporting any problem arising in the care unit, especially the loss, robbery or damage of equipment or medicines.
• Ensuring cleanliness of his/her working environment (including facilities, material, linen,equipment, and carrying out the sorting and disposal of waste)
• Working together with the nurses, cleaners and caretakers.
• Participating actively in the hospital platform (meetings, committee,.), trainings and in the basic health education sessions
• Participating in any other related activities as requested by the line manager
• Performing minor maintenance and cleaning of the biomedical equipment following user manual and protocols. Alerting the supervisor in case of malfunctioning of any device.

The specificity of Gwange Pediatric hospital:

• The Nurse aid is likely to work day / night.
• Nurses aid can work in different units (E.R, ICU, Orange, Yellow, Insolation, and outreach).

Nurse aid job specific:

• Performs and documents simple procedure as requested by the doctor or Nurse such as vital signs ,anthropometric(MUAC) measures malaria rapid test, HB and RBS for patients (as instructed) and Brings to the attention of medical staff seriously ill patients
• Maintain good relationships with other staff and being presentable always on uniform while on duty and stays in duty station at all time during his shift especially triage, ER and ICU.
• Ensures material needed for his work is available. Prepares needs for the shift and presents the request to the ward supervisors at the start of shift.
• Helps in the cleaning and arrangement of the working environment, pharmacy cupboards and assist in pharmacy inventory under supervision as requested by the supervisor.
• Should always respect and observe standard precautions such as wearing uniform while on duty, no hand rings, jewelries and watches and knows AEB protocol.
• Performing minor maintenance and cleaning of the biomedical equipment following user manual and protocols. Alerting the supervisor in case of malfunctioning of any device and ensure availability of this consumables in the units.
• Prepares and serves milks to patients following the rules on dilution and hygiene, ensures care takers give milk to patients with the help of staffs in the unit.
• Participates in the medical tour with the doctor and the nurse of his unit.
• The nurse aid shloud maintain a good handover and documentations of all procedures performed during his shift including registration of new admissions and discharged patients files and any other checklist available in his/her unit.
• Working in collaboration with the different actors and compliance with the protocols.
• Provides advice to patients in order to maintain good hygiene in conjunction with the nurse / lay counselor AND , if necessary, provide assistance.
• Maintain flexibility while at work and respect hirachy.

Requirements
Education:

• Community Nursing, S-CHEW, CHEW

Experience:

• Working experience of at least 1 year in a hospital or health care center

Languages:

• Fluent English (oral and written English), Hausa, Kanuri are Essential

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Main Purpose

• To provide an accurate, timely, and qualitative dispensing service of drugs according to medical prescriptions and the protocols, standards and procedures in order to improve the patient’s health conditions.

Job Description

• Dispensing medication to patients according to medical prescription, ensuring the medication is labeled with the correct drug name, strength, quantity, expiry date, directions for use and additional required information and providing clear instructions and advice on how to take the drug, when, how long, how to store, possible side-effects and any other relevant warnings. Making sure the patient understands in order to ensure correct treatment.
• Adhering to practice policies and procedures for dispensing medicines, in particular those relating to controlled drugs and ensuring respect of confidentiality in dispensing
• Placing accurate and timely orders with the central stock, maintaining minimum stock levels of medicines, checking expiry dates and storage conditions and ensuring no medicines or material are taken out of the dispensary without authorization
• Maintaining accurate dispensing records and regularly reporting them to his/her technical reference.
• Ensuring returned and out-of-date medication is safely removed to a well designated quarantine zone for unwanted pharmaceuticals, separated from the normal stock
• Organizing and keeping clean the dispensing area, ensuring cleanliness and care in handling medicines to avoid contamination and mix-up.
• Maintaining dispensary equipment, ensuring it is clean, accurate and in a good state of repair.
• Maintaining the integrity and security of the dispensary by admitting only authorized personnel and ensuring that all medicines are stored as appropriate.
• Reporting immediately to the technical reference on any problem arising in the service (especially loss, robbery, quality problems with medicines (abnormal changes in colour, consistency, and odour) damage of medical equipment or medicines).
• Understanding, recording and informing on any complaint received from patients related to medicine use or side effects.
• Ensure that all medication shelves are checked in the morning and refilled.
• Review of stock and communicate to supervisor when stock reaches minimum level.
• Ensure supply of items follows the FEFO/FIFO rule according to the protocol.
• Double check the prescription and the medication according to the condition of patient
• Ensure that delivery is according to the admission criteria
• Report the number of patients
• Understanding, recording and informing supervisor on any complaint received from patients related to medicine use or side effects.

Requirements
Educational Qualification:

• Diploma in Pharmacy / Pharmacy Technician Certificate (Pharmacy License is an Added Advantage)

Experience:

• Working experience of at least 1 year in a hospital or health care center
• Working experience in a dispensary is a plus

Languages:

• Fluent English (oral and written English), Hausa, Kanuri are Essential

Knowledge:

• Essential: Knowledge of basic mathematics and use of measuring equipment
• Desirable: Computer literacy (word, excel)

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Main Purpose

• Perform clinical laboratory activities according to the protocols, security and hygiene measures in order to obtain results to determine the patient’s treatment.

Job Description
According to medical prescription, preparing and performing clinical exams/tests with appropriate techniques and following the protocols and procedures. This function includes, among others:

• Taking blood, vaginal and urethral samples.
• Centrifuging blood and urine samples.
• Performing laboratory exams (serology, hematology, biochemistry, bacteriology or parasitological, according to context of the mission).
• Ensuring proper reporting and registration of the sample results in order to keep a written track of activity and give information to the relevant persons, ensuring confidentiality.
• Taking care, manage and organize efficiently the laboratory material/equipment:
• Perform cleaning and minor maintenance for biomedical equipment used.
• Following the user manual and protocols and alert supervisor in case of malfunctioning
• Applying hygiene and safety protocols, doing daily cleaning /maintenance, sterilization, washing general glassware after procedures are done.
• Ensuring proper sample waste disposal according to protocols and highest safety standards.
• Supplying orders, do stock, storage conditions follow-up, keep inventory.
• Keeping organized the data collection system of laboratory results and all information generated from the analysis done.
• Reporting all relevant information linked to the activity in the laboratory to the line manager, especially the loss/robbery/damage of laboratory equipment or medicines.
• Performing minor maintenance and cleaning of the biomedical equipment following user manual and protocols.
• Alerting the supervisor in case of malfunctioning of any device.
• Participate in the morning medical meetings and ensure written handover is done before leaving the service
• Ensuring knowledge of updated Protocols,policies and guidelines.
• Participate in on-the-job and other laboratory related trainings for both lab and non-lab staff.
• Issuing out accurate and reliable emergency laboratory test results to respective wards/units in a timely manner
• Participate in transfusion activities, including blood transfusion file review.
• Participate in Quality Improvement staff meetings whenever requied to do so.
• Active participation in other project activities and meetings
• Participate to the development of reforms in working strategies.
• Participate in new laboratory investigation when implemented.
• Participate in routine weekly lab on job training.
• Any other context-specific laboratory duties as may be assigned by direct-line supervisor from time to time.

Requirements

• Education: Essential Laboratory Technician Diploma / Degree.
• Experience: Minimum 1 year working experience essential.
• Languages: Fluent English (oral and written English), Hausa, Kanuri are Essential
• Knowledge: Essential computer literacy (word, excel and internet).

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Main Purpose

• Provide outpatient and/or inpatient medical care to patients/beneficiaries according to adapted and updated medical knowledge, protocols, values, and universal hygiene standards to improve the patients/beneficiary’s health conditions.

Job Description

• Apply medical knowledge and skills to diagnose and prevention. Carry out outpatient and inpatient consultations, prescribing the necessary treatment respecting the protocols.
• Keep the patient and/or his/her family informed about the illness and provide appropriate explanations about the treatment to follow, checking they have understood.
• Follow up the evolution of the hospitalized/IPD patients, through daily visits, consultations, and examinations, prescribing the necessary treatment following protocols, deciding whether they can be discharged or transferred to other departments – in collaboration with other doctors- and informing their family about the patient’s evolution.
• Check and control the rational distribution of medicines and equipment under his/her responsibility and take care of the quality, disinfection, and sterilization of the medical material. Assure General compliance with standing hygiene standards.
• Participate in the collection and analysis of epidemiological data, checking its validity, and informing the line manager or project coordinator about any problem or complication of the patients’ illness, medical error, and monitors the proper functioning of the department, equipment, or material.
• Ensure ongoing training of the medical/paramedical multidisciplinary team in order to optimize the quality of care.
• Know and ensure all medical protocols are followed and implemented, checking universal precautions are followed at all times and reducing bio-hazard risks and improving infection control. Ensures Professional confidentiality is respected.
• Manage the team under his/her direct responsibility according to HR policies and procedures, supervising their performance, organizing and scheduling shifts and rotations, directly participating in emergencies and on calls if necessary.
• Report the number of patients.
• Understand, record and inform supervisor on any complaint received from patients related to medicine use or side effects.
• Provide quality medical care to patients according to guidelines and protocols, applying the protocols and guidelines in the examination of patients, diagnosis, paraclinical examination, prescription of medications, and follow-up of patients both in the emergency department and inpatient (ICU, Orange, yellow, and isolation).
• Apply IPC protocols in all procedures in patient management in the Hospital.
• Actively participate in the management of emergency cases in the ER and wards and discuss difficult cases with the MD team/pediatrician or line manager when necessary.
• Ensure at least 90% compliance of drug matches with the established diagnosis.
• Rationalize the prescription of antibiotics to avoid and reduce the chances of unnecessary side effects and antibiotic resistance.
• Ensure investigation results are followed up in a timely manner.
• Ensure the quality of care delivered to our patients improves with time in the service he/she is working in.
• Follow the referral procedure, adhering to the referral guidelines, and validating all referrals with the medical activity manager.
• Participate in the morning medical meeting and ensure handover is done before leaving the service.
• Participate in regular quality of care meetings for such improvement (e.g., MMR presentation/theoretical training every week).
• Participate in the training of MDs on health-related issues.
• Participate in the development of reforms in working strategies.
• Ensure TCE is followed, especially in terms of commitment to work, punctuality, and other HR-related policies that guide MDs' responsibility in the workplace.
• Any other context-specific laboratory duties as may be assigned by the direct-line supervisor from time to time.

Requirements
Education:

• Medical Doctor Diploma. Desirable Diploma in Tropical Medicine.

Experience:

• 2 years’ experience minimum as a Medical Doctor/General practitioner in clinical work (consultations, admissions, ward rounds, lab tests request, and results interpretation). Desirable in tropical medicine, experience in pediatrics (Triage, Resuscitation, ICU, IPD, SAM, Infectious Diseases).
• Languages: Fluent English (oral and written English), Hausa, Kanuri are Essential.
• Knowledge: Essential computer literacy (Word, Excel).

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Job Description

• Knowing, promoting, implementing and following up the universal hygiene standards/ precautions, bio-hazard prevention and infection control, security rules and other protocols and procedures in the medical premises and ensuring high standards of hygiene of his/her working environment.
• Respecting medical secrets and confidentiality at all times.
• Organizing and carrying out care and treatments according to medical prescriptions, and assisting during consultations, daily rounds and other medical procedures. Participating in health education of the patient (and family) when necessary.
• Identifying Sexually Gender Based Violence victims and referring them to the medical team so they can receive the necessary treatment. Knowing and is aware of the importance and appropriate use of the Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) Kit
• Ensuring patients are properly received and installed and that those with lack of autonomy are assisted, especially regarding their feeding, personal hygiene, movements and comfort. For ER and OPD nurse, ensuring triage of patients in waiting areas, wards or during emergencies, detecting the priority acute/emergency cases, carrying out first aid care and referring them to the doctor when necessary
• Sending material to be sterilized and recuperates it from sterilization
• Carrying out admission, surveillance and follow-up of patients (i.e., assessment of the evolution of their state of health and the identification of any emergency situation or deterioration
• Carrying and supervising administrative procedures and documents (fill in patient’s files, forms, consumptions, statistics, registers, health files, etc.), ensuring an appropriate written/oral handover, and reporting any problematic situations and cases that may arise. Participating in data collection and keeping doctors/supervisors informed.
• Participating in the department-related pharmacy and medical equipment control and maintenance (quality and its functioning, storage conditions, follow-up of expired drugs inventories, stock takes of medicines and material at every team changeover ensuring no material is taken out of nursing area/wards without prior authorisation, etc.)
• Perform cleaning and minor maintenance for biomedical equipment used. Fol-lowing the user manual and protocols and alert supervisor in case of malfunctioning.
• Supervising and training nurse-aids, nutritional assistants, cleaners and other related staff under his/her supervision, ensuring teamwork and adherence to all appropriate protocols and procedures
• The nurse in triage is responsible for the triage of all patients coming to the hospital respecting admission criteria, actively response to emergency as priority and maintains high standard precautions by managing all isolation cases as per protocol.
• The nurse should always be organized at all times during his/her shift by ensuring all material needed for patient care are available, communicates to his supervisor any missing materials and ensures the daily cleaning and organization of the care trolley of his unit.
• The nurse in charge of the unit follows all biomedical equipment’s in the unit to ensure that daily maintenance is completed by the Nurse Assistant and reports to the supervisor any dysfunction noticed and maintains up to date stock of consumables
• The Nurse on daily basis attends the medical round with the Doctor of his unit and implementing treatment plan as prescribed in order to ensure therapeutic success.
• He/she participate with the supervisors in pharmacy inventories, meetings training of nurse, nurse assistants and orientation of new colleagues.
• He/she Works in collaboration with the assistant nurse and is responsible for the supervision of nurse assistants work and patients in his/her unit using the tools at his/her disposal.
• The nurse should maintain a good handover and documentations of all procedures performed during his shift including registration of new admissions and discharged patients’ files and any other checklist available in his/ her unit and also biomedical equipment.
• The nurse at all times should be present at duty station except when call for help in another unite and should maintain good collaboration and communication with other team members 
• In all areas of his activity, he can make proposals for improvement or adaptation to the supervisor of his unit.
• Detects cases of severe acute malnutrition and other can be referred cases, also, if necessary, organizes with the Doctor and the supervisor the referral of the patient to an adapted structure.
• Knows / carries out the Therapeutic Patient Education (TPE), i.e., maintaining contact with all patients, providing them with information about their health status and answering their medical questions.
• In addition, his manager may ask him to perform additional tasks if necessary.
• Respects different IPC Pillars e.g. Hand hygiene, PPE and waste management and environmental cleanliness.
• To educate hospital patients and caretakers about their care and relevant information on vaccination, hygiene, medical advice.
• Ensure clarifying medical treatment for the patient and give clear picture of all medical procedures before implementing and get consent.
• Routinely checks the child's immunization status.

Requirements
Education:

• Essential recognized Nurse Degree / Diploma
• Desirable Bachelor’s in Science of Nursing
•  Must have current Practicing License

Experience:

• Desirable 1 year of previous experience
• Demonstrable experience in supervising and training others in a team setting

Languages

• Fluent English (oral and written English), Hausa, Kanuri are Essential