OT Nurse at Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an independent international medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid in more than 60 countries to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural or man-made disasters or exclusion from healthcare.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: OT Nurse

Location: Jahun, Jigawa
Contract Type: Contract
Contract: 208 working hours per month roster flexible.

Main Purpose

• Organize and carry-out all nursing activities related to the operating theatre (OT) running, according to MSF health protocols, universal hygienic standards and in coordination with the surgeon and anaesthetist, in order to ensure a smooth functioning of the surgical activities (pre, during and post-operative care) offered to patients.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the preparation of the material and equipment (checking the quantity and quality), in the OT and carry-out the reception, transport of the patient from the preparation room to the OT and ensuring his/her installation for surgery.
• Assist the surgeon and anesthetist during the operation, anticipating their needs, in order to facilitate their job and helping throughout the whole process
• Checks vital parameters of the patient with the nurse anesthetist.
• Organize the patient’s transport and installation from the operating theatre to the recovery room and carry-out all the post-operative activities (used material collection, OT’s cleaning and disinfection, resetting all equipment and material back), in order to prepare the OT for next surgical intervention or any emergency.
• Implement and follow-up the hygiene, sterilization, asepsis and disinfection protocols and procedures at all times, in pre, during and post- operative activities, in order to ensure the patient and staff’s safety conditions. i.e. waste containers availability, sharps container, checking no material or needles remain in the surgical towels, placing instruments into soak container, take instruments/linen to sterilization unit, etc.).
• Supervise and train the hygiene officers while in the OT in following all appropriate protocols and procedures, in order to ensure the quality of the healthcare given to patients.
• Control all equipment and material stock to be used in the OT (carrying out inventories, checking its quality and its functioning, storage conditions, etc.), in order to ensure an efficient and rationale use of material resources while preventing damage and deterioration.
• Carry-out and supervise administrative procedures and documents (check identity of patient and his/her consent for the operation, fill in patients files, forms, statistics, quantitative surgical data collection, etc.), and report any problematic situations and cases arising, in order to have updated and correct information about the day-to-day activity and ensuring proper transfer of information.
• Participate in data collection and reporting.
• Intervene in support of other services whenever needed and work particularly in close collaboration with obstetrics departments.

Requirements
Education:

•  Essential Bachelor in Science of Nursing
• Two-year experience as IBODE in a 2nd level hospital.

Experience: 

• Desirable 2 years’ experience. Having worked in MSF or other NGO’s and in develop-ing countries is desirable.

Languages:

• Local language essential and mission language essential.

Remuneration

• According to MSF salary scale plus 13th month allowance equivalent to 1 month of gross salary.

Application Closing Date
11th August, 2024.