Nurse at Borno State Ministry of Health and Human Services

The Borno State Ministry of Health and Human Services is the top administrative arm of the Health Sector in the state and is headed by the Commissioner for Health with the Permanent Secretary as the Chief Accounting officer. Other Agencies and Boards under the Ministry include the Borno State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (SPHCDA), the Hospitals Management Board (HMB) and The Borno State Contributory Healthcare Management Agency (BOSCHMA).

The Borno State Ministry of Health and Human Services under its collaboration with Medecins Sans Frontieres - France is recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Nurse

Location: Maiduguri, Borno (MSF - France Facility)
Employment Type: Fixed Term

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

Application Closing Date
21st May, 2024.