Under general supervision by the MSIE Program office, the incumbent performs nursing duties ensuring efficient delivery and client care in accordance with accepted standard medical practice and professional codes of conduct.

Number of Position: (02)

Duty Station: MSE East Area Program office and South Area Program Office

Employment Type: Contract for 6 months

Salary:  As per MSIE Salary Scale

DUTIES/TASKS

   General

• Provides nursing services, within defined scope of practice, to Clients based on Clients assessment and care planning procedures
• Performs SRH interventions such as client counselling, family planning service provision, comprehensive abortion care, taking vital signs, applying aseptic techniques, ensuring infection control
• Administers medication and observes and documents therapeutic effects
• Provides pre-operative and post-operative personal and comfort care
• Monitors Clients’ progress, evaluate effectiveness of SRH interventions and consults with appropriate members of outreach team
• Provides reproductive health/family planning education to individuals and the communities.

  Outreach Clinical Nurse Role

• Provides comprehensive family planning services
• Provides family planning counselling services to make clients to reach informed voluntary decision making
• Provides safe abortion services based upon Ethiopian Legal Abortion Requirements
• Provides counselling on preventing unwanted pregnancies; correct use of pregnancy termination procedures;
• Prepares all surgical instruments, sets and medical supplies required for operation in accordance with accepted standards,
• Assists surgeons intra-operatively (as a Scrub Nurse, Circulating Nurse, etc.) and makes the instruments ready for other operations as required.

• Prepares clients for surgery by cleaning the clients’ operative areas.
• Assists in surgery by laying out instruments, setting up equipment, assisting surgical teams with gowns and gloves and passing instruments to surgeons

• Cleans and sterilizes the operating room and instruments.

• Provides clients refreshment after service deliveries and perform other duties related to Clients care and comfort
• Carries messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments
• Makes beds and maintains Clients’ rooms

Related Duties/Tasks

• Ensures the maintenance of high-level standards and applies universal precautions to prevent infection (e.g. Hepatitis, HIV/AIDS) from blood or other body fluids of Clients

• Accounts for all assets under his/her custody during regular stock taking and audit as and when required.
• Prepares and submits periodic reports as required.
• Participate in demand creation activity
• Made close follow up for post procedure clients

• Maintain inventory of supplies; accounts for all assets under his/her custody during regular stock taking and audit as and when required.
• Prepares and submits periodic reports as required.
• Handling client’s belongingness properly
• Performs related tasks as required

Education:

          BSc/Diploma in Nursing

Experience

Two Years’ experience for BSC nurse and four years for Diploma nurse.

Skills, Attitudes and Attributes

• Good Communication and Interpersonal skills
• Conscious of Government, MSI and MSIE regulations
• Ability to make logical and timely decisions
• Counselling skill
• Awareness of concepts and strategies of quality care
• Pro-choice