Nurse

Responsible for:

NursePosition is responsible for to provide over all technical and organizational support and playing a support and facilitation role for community-based management of acute malnutrition in the Rohingya camp. Establishes and maintains close working relationships with communities in her working area in order to ensure that the nutrition messages are disseminated and understood at all levels.

Responsibilities:

• Supports and facilitates emergency nutrition program participants in the identification and prioritization of project beneficiaries as per the national/UNICEF WHO CMAM protocol/guideline
• Supports and facilitates the development of an action plan
• Assesses health, nutrition, hygiene and sanitation-related problems
• Facilities, organizes, and builds skill and knowledge of care takers on appropriate feeding practices (RUTF& RUSF), basic hygiene and sanitation
• Closely work with the Stabilization center (SC), the Community mobilizer team, Majhi and Imam
• Ensure good triage of patients/beneficiaries in the facility.
• Ensure that every beneficiary receives an adequate medical examination, appropriate diagnosis, treatment and referral for additional treatment following the national/UNICEF WHO CMAM protocol/guideline and standard guidelines.
• Conduct medical examination to targeted beneficiaries which includes vital signs physical examination and medical history.
• Prescribe routine medications and provide treatment according to standard CMAM guidelines and treatment protocols.
• Follow CMAM protocols in assessing, admitting and treating beneficiaries in the CMAM (OTP/TSFP) program.
• Timely referral of children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) with medical complications to the Nearby stabilization Centre (SC).
• To ensure that any beneficiary requiring further medical assistance is referred to the nearest health facility in accordance with protocols.
• Correctly record all relevant information (symptoms, diagnosis, measurements, treatment plan) for each beneficiary on the appropriate forms of beneficiaries and medication given and complete the child’s card (CMC) at every visit.
• Keep an up-to-date record of all therapeutic feeding products requisitions, consumptions, medication used and be responsible for stock management and reporting (distribution monitoring, use of non-expired drugs, stock ordering, balance stock etc.)
• Ensure wastes (medical and non-medical) are adequately disposed of at the facility.
• Provide health education and counselling to all caretakers (SAM & MAM).
• Attend team meetings and other meetings as requested.
• Ensure that all equipment is in good working condition and clean, including disinfection where needed.
• To handle the beneficiaries in a sensitive and reassuring manner.
• Prepare regular and ad-hoc reports as requested and timely submit to the nutrition supervisor.
• Build the capacity of staff and CNVs of the nutrition team through on-the-job training.
• Participate in training as requested.
• Provide technical support and builds a capacity of staff and CNVs (specially appetite CNV)
• Maintain up-to-date records on the above functions for the provision of reports to the supervisor as requested.
• Support quality recording and documentation of nutrition data in OTP/TSFP/SC sites
• Prepares weekly, monthly and quarterly reports and submit it to her/his nutrition supervisor
• Collects basic information, best practices, case studies, research and lessons and reports to her/his supervisor
• Conduct malnutrition causal mapping and arrange outreach sessions in the identified Pocket sub blocks
• Causal analysis of CNR
• Follow-up home visit (defaulter/absentees/relapse/weight statistics)
• Knowledge of nutrition indices calculation, such as (average weight gain, length of stay, cure rate, defaulter rate, CNR, expected weight gain)
• Coordination and cross-check data with the Anthropometric point, GMP and PLW point
• Biweekly CMAM update meeting with the Outreach team and Nutrition Site Supervisors at the center level