Nurses/Midwives at Action Health Incorporated (AHI)Action Health IncorporatedNurses/Midwives at Action Health Incorporated (AHI)
BORNO
AHI advances this agenda by working with young people, parents, community opinion leaders, youth-serving organizations, government agencies and policy makers to: Promote and protect young people’s sexual and reproductive health especially, increasing their ability to prevent early pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS and making informed choices about their sexuality free of discrimination, coercion, and violence; as well as developing competencies to thrive now and in adulthood; Increase community awareness and action on challenges youth face so that policies and programmes are put in place to effectively address these issues; and Build alliances to increase the number of government, private sector and civil society programmes offering support and life-enhancing opportunities for young people. Over the last 26 years, AHI has worked to assure that both private and public sector programmes include comprehensive, gender-sensitive, life skills and rights-based approaches to sexuality education and clinical services for youths. During this period, AHI has developed models that have been adopted and expanded by government and other civil society organizations. Some key accomplishments include: Successful advocacy for approval of the national education policy for universal access to sexuality education targeted at young people in Nigeria; and development of the National Family Life and HIV Education Curriculum for primary, secondary and tertiary levels in collaboration with education stakeholders. Facilitating the development of the Family Life and Emerging Health Issues Curriculum for Colleges of Education in Nigeria in collaboration with the National Commission for Colleges of Education(NCCE) Catalyzing/operationalizing Youth-Friendly Health Services in partnership with stakeholders to promote young people’s access to age-appropriate, gender sensitive, sexual and reproductive health information and services in several states of Nigeria. Published reviews and situation analyses on the sexual and reproductive health of married adolescent girls in Northern Nigeria and expanding their access to services in four northern states including facilitating the return of married girls to school. Raising greater awareness about the vulnerabilities of out-of-school adolescent girls in the urban slums of Lagos and facilitating advocacy to improve policy and programming response.
- Experience
- Location Borno
Job Summary
- The Nurse / Midwives will work to contribute to an improvement in the overall health of the targeted population through the provision of quality health care (curative, preventive health care). This position is expected to triage patients, ensure smooth patient flow, provide clinical care, assist with referrals as needed and provide health education and hygiene promotion.
Main Tasks and Responsibilities
Nurses
- Provide clinical nursing services according to internationally accepted standards.
- Assist clinicians, midwives, laboratory, vaccination, and pharmacy in running of general duties as designated by the Health Coordinator.
- Manage triage, taking vital signs and organize patients for consultation.
- Conduct vaccination for children and pregnant women.
- Conduct nursing care of patients as per guidelines & instructions of the physician
- Ensure compliance to MOH/WHO guidelines of rational drug use.
- In collaboration with the Health Coordinator provide treatment as per MOH/WHO treatment guidelines and protocols.
- Ensure that patients are accurately registered and recorded for reporting and case management.
- Ensure proper data management through completion of appropriate patient cards, registers, tally sheets, and reports.
- Ensure relevant patients including children under 5 are screened for malnutrition or provide malnutrition services if trained and responsibilities assigned by the Health Coordinator.
- Adhere to administrative directives with regards to work schedules, record keeping, patient communications, confidentiality, re-stocking of essential drugs, consumables, and other medical supplies.
- The duties and responsibilities listed are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and are not necessarily all-inclusive. The nature of AHI work requires personnel to adapt to a rapidly changing landscape; duties may be reconfigured to meet operational requirements.
Midwives
- Ensure the implementation and continuity of antenatal and postnatal care, family planning, obstetrical care (BEmONC and CEmONC), neonatal and comprehensive abortion care, management of victims of sexual violence, reproductive tract infections.
- Collaborating with the medical doctor and /or nurse in the management of Sexual Violence cases
- Conduct normal deliveries independently. Ensure daily data quality on ANC, admission, delivery, PNC, family planning, OPD and discharge registration, proper documentation of referral cases, and strengthen linkages.
- Ensure nutritionally at-risk infant and their mothers also receive mental health and health promotion support (targeted to the infant developmental age) as part of an integrated approach to inpatient nutritional care and treating the infant and mother as one unit.
- The duties and responsibilities listed in this document are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and not necessarily all inclusive.
Job Requirements
- Qualified and Registered Nurse / Midwife from government recognized Nursing Institute with a valid license to practice or a similar required qualification in the country for the position.
- Previous NGO experience in same capacity will be an advantage.
- Good communications skills, both oral and written
- Extremely flexible and have the ability to cope with stressful situations.
- Ability to relate to and motivate staff effectively.
- Good decision-making skills
- Clinical work experience of at least two (2) years as a professional midwife in low resource settings
- Language: English and local Languages are mandatory
- Essential computer literacy (word, excel, and Internet use).
Method of Application
Interested and qualified? Go to Action Health Incorporated (AHI) on forms.gle to apply
