مطلوب فريق من الممرضات للاستجابة السريعة – Nurse Rapid Response Team 100% Activity Rate للعمل لدى منظمة أطباء بلا حدود – Médecins Sans Frontières

Function responsibilities include:

• 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 authorization, etc.)
• Perform cleaning and minor maintenance for biomedical equipment used. Following 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

Specific activities:

• Assessment and treatment of patients
  • Carries out a rapid evaluation of patients in the community:
  • Determines if the patient is a cholera case.
  • Evaluates the degree of dehydration.
  • Decides treatment plan (Plan A or Plan B).
  • Carries out registration of patients.
  • Prepares, prescribes and monitors the administration of Oral Rehydration Salt (ORS). Ensures ORS will be available at all times.
  • Gives sachets of ORS to continue maintenance therapy at home.
  • Administers other treatments: antibiotics and/or zinc sulfate if indicated, according to the protocol.
  • Initiates an individual patient monitoring file and records observations and systematic prescriptions if indicated (antibiotics and zinc sulfate).
  • Communicates information to the patient and/or family: explains the treatment procedure and/or the continuation of treatment at home, to contact Rapid Response Team if symptoms reappear, prevention measures.

   

• Transfer of serious cases
  • Calls the ambulance to transfer to the Cholera Treatment Centre/Unit patients that need IV treatment or that need to be referred, whatever the reason.
  • Provides care before transfer, including starting IV treatment if staff is qualified to do so, depending on the organization of the healthcare provision.
  • Provides prepared ORS, to be taken during the transfer if transport time takes over 15 minutes.

   

• Patient follow-up
  • Records patient’s discharge, archives individual monitoring file.

   

• Other tasks
  • Records admissions/discharges every day and sends data to the supervisor.
  • Prepares adequate amount of drugs (ORS, antibiotics, zinc) and materials to take with, and ensures stock management.
  • Informs the supervisor in the event of a problem
  • At the request of the supervisor: Participates in certain team meetings; attends certain in-service training courses.

• Required education / qualification:
  • Essential: Recognized Nursing Degree/Diploma
  • Desirable: Bachelor’s degree in science of Nursing
  • Essential: Ministry of Public Health – MOPH Practice license as Nurse in Lebanon
  • Essential: Valid certificate of registration at the Order of Nurse in Lebanon
  • Essential: Advanced knowledge of MS-Office applications (word, excel and outlook)

• Experience required:
  • Desirable: 2 years of previous experience as registered Nurse.
  • Desirable: Previous MSF or (I)NGO experience
  • Desirable: Previous working experience in supervising and training peers and/or subordinates

   

• Languages:
  • Essential: Excellent command of the Arabic Language
  • Desirable: Good command of the English and/or French language

• Personal qualification: