ANAESTHETIST NURSE at Medecins Sans Frontieres Spain

ANAESTHETIST NURSE

Employer: Medecins Sans Frontieres Spain

Employment: Full-Time | Permanent

Place of Work: Gambella - Ethiopia

Posted date: 5 years ago

Deadline: Submition date is over

Performing all anaesthetic medical activities according to MSF policies, protocols and universal hygiene standards, in order to ensure the quality of pre, during and post-operative care of patients. RESPONSIBILITIES 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 to 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, sterilisation, 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. 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 MSF 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, database, 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. MSF Section/Context Specific Accountabilities Gambela region has doubled its population due to the arrival of refugees, mainly from South Sudan. MSF is working in the only referral hospital in the Gambela region in direct collaboration with the RHB staff. We also have a health promotion team working in the community. MSF is an independent, neutral and impartial organisation that is providing quality medical care free of charge regardless of the ethnic origin of our patients, so to both local and refugee population. We ensure that our staff is aware of and respect the cultural differences of our patients and collaborates with the RHB staff in an equally respectful way. There are still many challenges in the hospital that will require from our staff a big flexibility to adapt to the needs: changes in the location or the specific tasks that the staff was performing, extra hours, etc. We are an emergency organisation so in case of an outbreak or an emergency situation, the priority for the project will be to respond to the emergency, so the staff can be requested to shift from his/her usual job to support in that response. As a Nurse, you will have to ensure the quality of care to all your beneficiaries, following MSF protocols and calling the Manager/Supervisor for any complicated case at any time day or night. If they are not available, you will call the Project Medical Referent. In the same line, you will do a proper handover of all your patients before leaving the hospital after every shift. You will attend to the mandatory training organized for your position and implement the lessons learned in those training in your daily work. Also, you will consult your supervisors for any doubt and suggest any topic for future training that you consider necessary. Education Nursing diploma with specialisation as anaesthetics nurse is essential. Essential 1 year of previous supervised work experience as an anaesthetist nurse Experience in other NGO’s and /or MSF is desirable Languages Amharic & English essential. Desirable local language(s) Desirable basic computer skills Computer Skill Competencies Results and Quality Orientation L2 Teamwork and Cooperation L2 Behavioural Flexibility L2 Commitment to MSF Principles L2 Stress Management L3