EPI NurseMedecins du Monde

Under the supervision of the Medical Doctor Supervisor, the EPI Nurse will be responsible for the following main activities 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, materials, 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, materials, and equipment for mobile clinics and ensure that everything is ready before leaving 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 sterilization of dressing material daily
• Check the immunization status of the children and proceed to proper immunization of targeted children according to the 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 in the loading and unloading of the vehicles and the setting up of the mobile clinics
• Participate in 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 skills, and flexible working hours

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