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Borno Maiduguri |
Posted 4 years ago |
Medecins du Monde (MdM) is recruiting candidates for an EPI Nurse.
JOB TITLE: EPI Nurse
JOB LOCATION: Maiduguri, Borno
JOB DETAILS:
Ensure safety vaccination of children:
- Ensure hygiene before administering of vaccine
- Use appropriate dose of vaccine in the right route
- Minimize vaccine wastage
- Follow-up adverse event following immunization (AEFI) among vaccinated children
- Collect all wastes and garbage in link with vaccination activities and transport into the right place
- Cold chain and vaccine management:
- Evaluate the right quantity of vaccines and consumable per day
- Ensure that cool chain are maintained
- Collect data in link with vaccination activities and submit to the nurse or team leader
- Provide sensitization about immunization:
- Sensitization about hygiene and prevention infection
- Explain vaccination importance to mothers and caregivers
- Explain immunization schedule
- Ensure that all mothers and caregivers are understand adverse event following Immunization
- Minor nursing procedures:
- Administering treatment to the patients as per the doctor’s prescription
- Minor dressing and wound care procedures for the patients
- Monitoring patient vital signs
- Reporting and attendance to different meetings:
- Prepare a weekly activities report to submit to MC medical supervisor and Technical Supervisor
- Participate in a pro-active way to MdM internal meetings (medical, security…)
- Participate to all the trainings organized by MDM.
Others:
- Participate in a pro-active way to MdM internal meetings (general management, security…)
- Participate to all the trainings organized by MDM
- Supporting the medical staff for manual tasks
- Profile of the ideal Candidate
Qualifications
- Education (Essential): Diploma 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 deadlines, team-work, negotiation skils and flexible working hours.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover Letter in one single attachment to: [email protected] using “EPI Nurse” as the subject of the email.
Note: Applications without the correct subject line stated above will not be treated.
Job Features
Deadline | 10th May, 2020. |