Midwife – Nurse With Midwife Experience

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES: - Give the job related care while respecting medical prescriptions and protocols that apply in the MSF service. - Ensure admission of patient and follow up of labour/delivery and post-natal. - Register and complete a hospitalisation file. - Direct normal delivery (including patients needing to be referred for caesarian section): Carry out delivery with active management when necessary and first care of the new-born and to refer any complications for second level care; in case of complications, carry out resuscitation of the new-born. -Carry out prolonged deliveries in collaboration with the head midwife and the doctor: detect prolonged labour or delivery and signs of complications. Take charge independently of certain complications and administer medication with the agreement of the head midwife. - Ensure/supervise the follow up and daily cares of the new-borns and the mothers in the maternity ward: (vital signs, distribute-administer the medication, carrying out of vaccination...). -Follow up with good documentation and reporting of any investigations/examination undertaken. -Ensure post-natal and family planning follow up (deliveries and caesarian sections): Provide preventive /curative treatment and family planning consultation before discharge. Follow up of the new-borns and promotes exclusive breastfeeding. Prepare the discharge of mothers and their babies. - Participate in collecting needed data for monthly reports. -Hygiene / asepsis, waste disposal and stock keeping: sterilisation procedures, patients/facility hygiene, maintaining medication and medical stock supplies. -Upon request, the nurse-midwife can be sent to work in an other ward of the hospital: onsultations of reproductive health (family planning, ante-natal, post-natal) -Do rotational duties when necessary to assure 24/24 hours activity (including night shift). - Human qualifications : Work ethics, patience, respect of confidentiality, able to work in group and be a team player.