Nurse Volunteer- Emergency Response Team

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• Provide direct patient care in diagnostic and treatment in emergency primary healthcare in case of absence of local health care providers
• Identify the educational needs of community health workers and supervise on daily basis.
• Monitor and supervise health care delivery by local counterparts and community health workers.
• Ensure that patients have up to date patient cards and are accurately registered and recorded for reporting and case management.
• Ensure aggressive drug management (stockage, dispersment, warehousing, reconciliation).
• Oversee clinic staff and ward management.
• Teach basic sanitation and public health; theory of disease causation; treatment and prevention; disease diagnosis and drug treatment of common diseases; community nutrition; techniques for the identification of the malnourished child, treatment and growth monitoring, MCH and ANC.

• Minimum clinical nursing degree; preferably with a Master’s in Public Health.
• Experience in overseas programs relating to primary health care, communicable diseases; experience in maternal and child health, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS is useful.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience required, of which 1 year should be of developing country experience or resource deprived environment.
• Previous NGO experience.
• Will have excellent communications skills, both oral and written.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions independently.
• Extremely flexible, and have the ability to cope with stressful situations and frustrations.
• Ability to relate to and motivate local staff effectively.
• Creativity and the ability to work with limited resources.
• Must be able to speak English fluently.

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