General Nursing
The on-site area of responsibility of nurses during a mission is very different from working at home. In many locations, the basic nursing activities for patients will be taken over by relatives and local personnel. The bulk of the international aid effort is therefore responsibility, above all else, for the education and further training of local staff and assistants. Further tasks during a mission are the carrying out of vaccination programs, mother-child advisory service, hospital organization, hygiene measures, management of drug stocks, organization of food centres, data collection, management of personnel, and contact with local authorities. Surgical nurses have their own fields of emphasis.
Special Requirements:
*Nursing degree and two years of practical experience after attainment of diploma
*Training in tropical medicine or other additional knowledge (Public Health, Epidemiology, Nutrition, Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS etc.) is an advantage, not a must
*At least six to nine months of availability for a mission
*Spoken and written English (French is advantageous) to an advanced level.
Surgical Nurses
On mission, surgical nurses often have to work with the most basic technical equipment and under difficult conditions. An as wide-ranging practical experience as possible is necessary. Their areas of responsibility range from practical assistance in surgery to organizational duties and training of local surgical staff. It is often their main goal to ensure the minimum standard of hygiene, even with the simplest technical equipment in the operation theatre.
Special Requirements:
*Nursing and surgical nursing degree
*At least two years of practical experience in the operation theatre
*At least three weeks of availability for a mission
*Spoken and written English (French is advantageous) to an advanced level.Description of profile:Examples of tasks that nurses would be involved in at the field level would include.
Clinical:
* Responsible for organizing and implementing all nursing activities.
* Working directly with patients as needed to provide nursing care.
* Ensuring that outreach activities are carried out on a regular basis for surveillance, case finding and referral.
* Coordinating and following all MSF transfers and referrals.
* Participating in disease outbreak investigations, nutritional surveys and responding if needed.
OT:
* Organising the management of the operation theatre in the hospital.
* Assisting in operations as needed.
* Training and supervising the OT staff responsible for sterilization, OT cleaning, preparation of patients, operation sets, etc.
* Ensuring the availability of all materials and drugs needed in the OT.
* Responsible for the emergency surgical ward - training of national staff in utilization of materials (drugs, equipments).
* Actively involved in medical waste management.
Human Resources Management:
* Managing, supervising and supporting of all nursing staff (medical, surgical, operating theatre).
* Assisting in the ongoing training and coaching of all nursing staff.
* Assisting in the recruitment of nursing personnel.
Health Policy:
* Identifying of health risks and preparing courses of action to reduce or to eliminate all or any of these risks.
* Acting as an advisor to the local counterparts who are responsible for the health care policy.
Statistics and Reporting:
* Assisting in preparing monthly activity reports, which also includes planning.
* Organizing and supervising all data collection and monitoring disease trends and regularly reporting an analysis of the data.
Medication and Medical Supply Management:
* Responsible for the ordering, distribution and use of medicines and medical materials.
* Responsible for the pharmacy system.
Details of recruitment process:
There is a comprehesive selection process for candidates applying for field based positions as we do realise that this type of work is not suitable for everyone. There are three steps that need to be completed as part of this process. These are as follows:
1. Attendance at an information evening where interested people can learn more about the organisation and its work, and speak with experienced field personnel regarding the roles. Candidates still wishing to continue in the selection process will at that time be able to access application forms.
2. Submition of application forms, cv’s and supporting documents (licenses, diplomas etc). Following screening of these documents selected candidates will pass to the next step.
3. Interview and Assessment centre. Candidates will attend a full day assessment centre in Vienna after which confirmation will be given within a week as to acceptance or rejection.
Successful candidates will then be accepted to the ‘pool’ of staff available for missions and the matching process relating profiles to available field positions will then commence.
Please contact us on - Médecins Sans Frontières in Czech Republic, o.p.s.
Seifertova 555/47
130 00 Praha 3
http://www.lekari-bez-hranic.sk
Contact person: Pavlína Kozelková
Tel.: +420257090150
E-mail: office@lekari-bez-hranic.cz
