Outreach Clinical Nurse (Re-ad)

We want individuals who support our mission of eliminating unsafe abortion by 2030 and who work with us to build an enabling environment to increase access to safe services everywhere. We expect all team members to share our vision and commitment to achieving our mission whilst promoting equality and safeguarding the welfare of all clients and colleagues.

JOB SUMMARY

Under general supervision by the MSIE designated Area 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.

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

• Willingness and able to provides comprehensive family planning and comprehensive abortion care 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 SRH clinical officers in SRH- FP/SA surgical procedures as a scrub nurse and makes the instruments ready for other operations as required.
• Ensures the maintenance of a high level of standard;
• 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 related care and comfort
• Carries messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments
• Prepare room set up and participate in pre post SRH-FP & CA counseling services

Related Duties/Tasks

• Ensures the maintenance of high-level quality 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.
• Ensures proper handling, and issuance of supplies, medical equipments and other outreach medical and non-medical equipments items as per MSIE assets management procedures;
• Making official request and receive OR related supplies from the appropriate store and responsible for received supplies and equipments
• Receives and inspects all OR related materials and reconciles with service provisions
• 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 clients belongingness properly
• Monitor all supplies and medical equipment s availability
• Performs related tasks as required by area program managers