ANAESTHETIST NURSE

DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS   (Mamfe, Cameroon )

Posted : 16 September, 2021

Category : medical   Location : Mamfe, Cameroon

Job type : Full Time

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Doctors Without Borders (DWB) is an international non-governmental medical association providing assistance to populations in distress, to victims of natural or man-made disasters and to victims of armed conflict irrespective of race, religion, creed or political convictions. We observe neutrality and impartiality in the name of universal medical ethics and the right to humanitarian assistance and claim full and unhindered freedom in the exercise of our functions.

 

Related with our activities we are looking for an Anaesthetist Nurse

 

 

Working location(s): Mamfe District Hospital

Type of contract: Fixed Term 6 months

Salary: According to the organisation´s Salary Grid - Level 7

 

 

Main purpose

Performing all anaesthetic medical activities according to DWB policies, protocols and universal hygiene standards, in order to ensure the quality of pre, during and post-operative care of patients.

 

 

Accountabilities and Tasks

•        Performing consultations to patients due for surgery, evaluating of the risks of operating (in collaboration with the surgeon), obtaining patient’s written authorization for their operation, providing patients with appropriate information on their illness and treatments, and deciding on what type of anaesthetics to be used.

 

•        According to set procedures, carrying out all nursing anaesthetics related activities during surgery in order to collaborate in patient's adequate anaesthetized state and safety during the process. Preparing the drugs, material, and equipment required for the surgery. Monitoring patients throughout the whole intervention and administering and maintaining anaesthetics following the rules of hygiene and asepsis in force.

 

•        Providing post-operative care, including immediate post-operative surveillance in the recovery room and special patients present in the intensive care unit, in order to adapt the prescriptions, 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. Systematically evaluating patients' pain to adapt prescriptions and/or therapies for their relief.

 

•        Respecting, promoting and ensuring medical confidentiality and implementing and following hygiene rules, procedures and protocols at all times as well as looking after the integrity of anaesthesia material (decontamination, sterilization, storage conditions, etc.) and other equipment, in order to ensure the safety and protection of patients and other staff. Knowing accidental blood exposure policy and procedure and implementing them when necessary.

 

•        Ensuring that all staff using medical devices are qualified and trained. Ensuring cleaning and minor maintenance tasks are performed according to the protocols. Reporting any malfunction to the project biomedical service.

 

•        Carrying out all pharmacy related activities (stock control, station's re-stocking, inventories, expired drugs, etc.) and other equipment of anaesthetic 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. Drawing up pharmacy orders according to needs.

 

•        Collaborating with other departments and supporting other medical services in order to support the overall DWB project with his/her expertise and capabilities. Training other medical staff when applicable and working particularly in close collaboration with the accident and emergency department and midwifery and obstetrics team in the maternity department (especially to resuscitate new-borns).

 

•        Carrying 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, carrying out quantitative surgical-anaesthesia data collection, drawing up and sending out reports for the monthly follow up of peri-surgical mortality and for the quality of anaesthesia/pain management and informing the direct supervisor immediately in the event of medical error.

 

NB: The employee may be required to perform other tasks, take on other responsibilities, and work in other locations, depending on the needs of the project/mission.

 

 

Requirements

Education:                       Nursing diploma with specialization as anaesthetics nurse is essential                                    

 

Experience:                 Essential 1 year of previous supervised work experience as an anaesthetist nurse

                                   Experience in other NGO’s and /or developing countries is desirable

                                 

Languages:                 Local language essential. Mission language (English) essential

                                           

 

Competencies             Results and Quality Orientation, Teamwork and Cooperation, Behavioral Flexibility, Stress management, Commitment to DWB principles

 

           

All applications (CV, cover letter, diplomas, working certificates, telephone number, etc.) must be sent by email to the following address msfe-cameroon-recruitment@barcelona.msf.org mentioning on the subject: ANAESTHETIST NURSE - ANS160921 or else be submitted at Office of DWB in Buea, Kumba or Mamfe in a sealed envelope mentioning ANAESTHETIST NURSE - ANS160921 for the attention of Doctors Without Borders HR department.

 

 

Deadline for the reception of applications : Sunday 3^th of October 2021

 

 

NB: No applications will be accepted after the deadline. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Application documents are non-returnable; please do not submit original documents. Certificates necessary to prove work experience. Writing tests will be done in our offices after the selection of the applications, interviews will take place in Mamfe.

 

 

 

* All recruitment processes in DWB are free of charge