Medecins du Monde (MdM) is an international humanitarian organization whose mission is to provide medical care for the most vulnerable populations, the world over, including France. It seeks to stimulate voluntary commitment from doctors, other health care providers, and from those whose expertise in other fields is needed for its activities, to enlist all competent support required for the achievement of its projects, and to seek at all times to encourage close working relationships with populations in its care. MdM operating in Nigeria, Borno state since October 2016.
Main Responsibilities
Under the supervision of the Medical Doctor Supervisor, the EPI Nurse will be responsible for the following main activities in order to ensure the quality of care in the mobile clinics:
Realization of the patients triage and taking vital signs
Realization of paramedics acts including vaccination
Implementation of health education sessions
Collection, computerization and analysis of weekly epidemiological data
Reporting and attendance to different meetings
Tasks Description
Preparation of the medical site
Install the furniture and the material before the start of each mobile clinic
Prepare all the necessary drugs, material and equipment for mobile clinics and ensure that everything is ready before starting the activities
Realization of the patients triage and taking vital signs
Prepare all the necessary drugs, material and equipment for mobile clinics and ensure that everything is ready before to leave MdM office
Keep always the nurse tools clean and organized
Do the triage of the patients with the medical doctors and give an MDM number to the patients needing a medical consultation
Take weight, temperature and BP for all the patients who have been registered
Give deworming drugs to all the targeted children according to the protocol
Ensure patient confidentiality is respected and treat all the patients with respect and dignity
Identify medical emergencies and refer them immediately to the medical doctor
Realization of paramedics acts including vaccination
Follow the basic medical rules of hygiene when performing paramedics acts
Realize malaria rapid diagnostic tests according to necessity and/or prescription
Urine dipstick tests to the patients according to necessity and/or prescription
Haemoglobin test according to prescription
Make dressings according to MdM protocols
Do injections according to necessity and/or prescription
Ensure the cleaning and sterilisation of dressing material on a daily basis
Check the immunization status of the children and proceed to proper immunization of targeted children according to EPI calendar
Evaluate the right quantity of vaccines and consumables per day
Health Education Sessions
Others:
Give suggestions to improve the functioning of MDM mobile clinics
Participate to the loading and unloading of the vehicles and to the setting up of the mobile clinics
Participate to weekly physical inventory of mobile clinic pharmacy
Be flexible in performing his/her duties to ensure that beneficiaries are getting good quality services
Perform other additional duties on request of the team leader
Inform immediately the security focal point in case of any security problem in the field
Profile
Education (Essential): Diploma / Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
Experience: 2 years
Confidentiality, Team Player, ability to work with little or no supervision, people management, Report Writing
Additional Skills: Ability to work in low resource field environments.
Language Skills: Fluent in English (Speaking, Reading, Writing), Kanuri and Hausa are added advantage
Personal Skills: Ability to work under tight deadline steam-work, negotiation skils and flexible working hours
Application Closing Date
2nd February, 2022.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover Letter via email to: [email protected] using "EPI Nurse" as the subject of the email.
Note: Applications without the above subject will not be treated.