Country: South Sudan
Closing date: 08 Jul 2016
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare. MSF offers assistance to people based on need, irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation. MSF actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of neutrality and impartiality. Thousands of health professionals, logistical and administrative staff – most of whom are hired locally – work on programmes in some 70 countries worldwide to support it activities.
MSF – Holland is currently sourcing for a suitable candidate to fill the following position:
ANESTHETIST NURSE -MS024, L6
1 POSITION – LANKIEN, SOUTH SUDAN
POSTING DURATION – 12 MONTHS
Main Purpose
Reporting to the Medical Team Leader (MTL), the incumbent shall be responsible for providing medical care to patients/beneficiaries pre and post operatively according to adapted and updated medical knowledge, MSF protocols, values and universal hygiene standards to improve the patients/beneficiaries health conditions.
Accountabilities
§ Perform consultations to patients due to undergo surgery, evaluating the risks of operating in collaboration with the surgeon, checking that patients authorize their operations in writing, providing them with appropriate information on their illness and treatments, and deciding on what type of anesthetists to be used, in order to collaborate in setting everything up before surgery.
§ Evaluates the risk of operating in collaboration with the Surgeon Doctor.
§ Respects, promotes and ensures medical confidentiality.
§ Carry-out all nursing anesthetists related activities during surgery, according to the procedures set before-hand by the doctor anesthetist (if any); in order collaborate in patient’s adequate anaesthetized state and safety during the process.
§ Preparing beforehand the drugs, material, and equipment required.
§ Administering and maintains anesthetists following the rules of hygiene and asepsis in force.
§ Monitoring patients throughout the whole intervention.
§ Provide post-operative care, including immediate post-operative surveillance in the recovery room (ensuring patient’s recovery of consciousness and setting analgesic protocol) and special patients present in the intensive care unit, in order to adapt the prescriptions (hydric resuscitation, anti-biotherapies, analgesics), with special focus on patient’s pain relief, during the stabilization and recovery process.
§ Does round consultations with the Surgeon Doctor once or twice a day, discussing therapeutic orientations with the department manager, renewing prescriptions and ensuring they are followed and systematically evaluating patients’ pain to adapt prescriptions and/or therapies for their relief.
§ Implement and follow at all times hygiene rules, procedures and protocols, as well as look after the integrity of anesthesia material (decontamination, sterilization, storage conditions, etc.) and other equipment, in order to ensure the safety and protection of patients and other staff. Knows accidental blood exposure policy and procedure and implements them when necessary.
§ Carry out all pharmacy related activities (stock control, station’s re-stocking, inventories, expired drugs, etc.) and other equipment of anesthetist ward, doing special follow-up of narcotics and sedatives (register, consumptions, empty phials, etc.), ensuring enough stock-up and the good functioning to carry-out the medical activities. Draws up pharmacy orders according to needs.
§ Collaborates with other departments within the project (responding to accident & emergency department requests, intervening in support of other services when needed, etc.), in order to support the overall MSF project with his/her expertise and capabilities.
§ Carry out administrative procedures and documents (fill in of patients files, forms, statistics, data base, etc.), in order to have updated and correct information about the day-to-day activities.
§ In collaboration with the Surgeon Doctor, carry out quantitative surgical-anesthesia data collection, draw up and send out reports for the monthly follow up of peri-surgical mortality and for the quality of anesthesia/pain management and informs immediately the direct supervisor in the event of medical error.
§ Supports other medical services whenever needed, and works particularly in close collaboration with the accident and emergency department and midwifery and obstetrics team in the maternity department (specially to resuscitate new-born).
§ Is the reference person for pain problems within the health facility.
§ When applicable train other medical staff
Requirements
Education
· Nursing diploma with specialization as anesthetists nurse is essential.
· Registered nurse with NCK
Experience
· Essential 1 year of previous supervised work experience as an anesthetist nurse.
· Experience in other NGO’s and /or developing countries is desirable.
· Proven experience and success as a coach and manager.
· A proven ability to live and work with a large multi-cultural team, in a low resource setting and under grueling environmental conditions (extreme heat, prolonged rainy season, snakes, scorpions, etc.).
· Must be a Kenyan
Languages
· English language essential.
Knowledge
· Essential computer literacy (Word, Excel)
How to apply:
Interested candidates who meet the above requirements, please send your CV indicating 3 referees and a motivation letter, clearly indicating on the subject line ‘’Anesthetists Nurse’’, to kenya-jobs@oca.msf.org.