ANAESTHETIST NURSE at MSF SPAIN Zurmi Zamfara

(BASED IN ZURMI / FIXTERM CONTRACT STARTING WITH 6 MONTHS /LEVEL 7)

Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctor without Borders (MSF), founded in 1971, is an international humanitarian organization that provides emergency medical assistance to population in danger in more than 60 countries. MSF has been present in Nigeria for 20 years. Médecins Sans Frontières is an international independent medical-humanitarian organization, which helps
populations in distress, to victims of natural or man-made disasters and to victims of armed conflict, without discrimination and irrespective of race, religion, creed, or political affiliation.

MSF is a civil society initiative that brings together individuals committed to the assistance of other human beings in crisis. As such MSF is by choice an association. Each individual working with MSF does it out of conviction and is ready to uphold the values and principles of MSF.

Main Purpose:

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.

Job Description

• 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 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.
• Ensuring that all staff using medical devices are qualified and trained. Ensuring cleaning and minor maintenance tasks are performed according to the protocols.

Reporting any malfunction
to the project biomedical service.

• 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, data base, 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

✓ Ensuring patients booked for surgery had pre anaesthetics assessement and evaluation(preanaesthetic review) prior to administration of anaesthesia and incase of emergency surgeries always ensure specific significant informations related to patients conditions that will have impact on anaesthesia administration are obtained before administration of anaesthesia.

✓ Ensuring all requested investigations are available and within the normal reference range prior to anaesthesia adminstration, informing the direct supervisor and the medical team incase of any derrangement always.

✓ Performing pre anaesthesia checklist always before administration of anaesthesia in order to have patient safety.

✓ In collaboration with ipc officer, ensuring anesthesia devices are always clean and maintained with follow up chart for safety and quality care.

✓ Ensuring inform and obtain consent before administration of anaesthesia,in the event where patients condition is complex and the prognosis is low, informing patients abouth the high risk consent.

✓ In collaboation with medical team, providing post operative pain management and supporting midwives in neonatal resusscitation.

✓ Implementing anaesthesia register for qualiy care and data management.
Requirements:

Education

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Nursing diploma with specialisation as anesthetist nurse is essential).

Experience

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Essential 1 year of previous supervised work experience as an anesthetist nurse

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Experience in other NGO’s and /or developing countries is desirable
.
Language

Essential English and Hausa languages are desirable

Competencies

Results, Teamwork, flexibility, commitment to MSF Principles, service

HOW TO APPLY

Interested applicants can submit their motivation letters, updated CV and relevant academic certificates.

Application should be addressed to: MSF SPAIN.

Submission can be done

TO MSF SPAIN, Office- Zurmi A long Rukudawa road, after zurmi general hospital Zamfara State.

With clearly written job tittle and updated contact numbers.

Closing date for submissions: 24/03/2025 at 17:00 hrs.

We thank all applicants for their interest, but only short-listed candidates will be contacted for the recruitment process.
Applications once submitted, will not be returned to applicants.

MSF is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, race, nationality, and culture. Individuals from
minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. We are committed to
achieving a balanced gender distribution and therefore encourage women to apply. All applications will be treated
with the strictest confidence.
MSF provides a work environment that reflects the values of gender equality, teamwork, integrity and a healthy
balance of work and life. MSF does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including
sexual harassment and discrimination.

Only ZURMI indigenes, Women and People with Disabilities are
encouraged to Apply