Specialized Nurse

Main Purpose: Provide nursing care, treatment and follow-up of patients, according to doctors’ prescriptions, protocols applied in service and universal hygiene standards/precautions, in order to ensure the quality and continuity of care for the targeted population Main Responsibilities: -Give the job related care while respecting medical prescriptions and protocols that apply in the MSF service. -Ensure admission of patients and follow up of labor and direct normal delivery with supervision. -To support the midwife with prolonged deliveries in collaboration with the head midwife and the doctor: detect prolonged labor or delivery and signs of complication, prepare the patient for referral in case and accompany to a higher level of care. Administer certain medication with the agreement of the head midwife. -Ensure post-natal follow up: deliveries and caesarean sections -Assist midwife with new-born care/follow up: -Supervise new-born care daily (the carrying out of vaccination…) and the mothers in the maternity ward (Assist and support the mothers to follow Kangaroo care and breast feeding). In case of complications, carry out resuscitation of the new-born. -Follow up with good documentation and reporting of any investigations, examination undertaken. -Prepare the discharge of mothers and their babies: -Sanitary education of patients and possible treatment; emergency signs of post-partum complications...Complete and gather the patient’s file and hand over to the head midwife . -Assist the midwife with in-patient and out-patient clinics and available tests. -In emergency cases, referral/ accompany/ follow-up of the patient to higher level care. -Register and complete a hospitalization file. -Update the files of patients and new-born. Hygiene / Asepsis, Waste Disposal and stock keeping: -Keep the ward clean and tidy -Sort waste and use appropriate containers and bins (sharps, combustible waste, domestic waste) -Follow cleaning and instrument sterilization procedures -Respect universal hygiene and asepsis rules during care -Watch over the hygiene of the patients -Watch over the ward’s medication and renewable stock Working hours: In rotation to assure 24/24hours activity. Attention! To cover 24/24 shift, night and day shift needs to be filled in Competences Analysis capacity (decision-making capacity and global vision of the project) Teamwork (ability to work with other people, whether they be medical or non-medical – bear in mind other priorities...) Ability to act as part of a multi-cultural and multidisciplinary team. Initiative Quality-driven (go beyond his/her “formal” responsibilities seeking quality outputs and improvement of working processes) Problem solving capacity Communication skills (capacity to listen and communicate in an effective, specific, positive way) Flexibility (capacity to adjust to changes, willing to go beyond her/his job profile if needed) Flexible for changes in the job profile and even of location due to instability of context. Ability to cope with stress. Ready to work in an unstable context (war context)