Nurse at Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) - WaCA

Médecins Sans Frontières is a private, non-profit international humanitarian organization dedicated to providing medical assistance to populations in crisis, without discrimination and regardless of race, religion, gender, creed or political affiliation.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Nurse

Location: Kano

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.

Application Closing Date
25th September, 2022.