Head Nurse
Doctors without Borders
Total years of experience :6 years, 6 Months
Head Nurse\Hospital 6 Months (15th August 2021- 15th February 2022).
- Supervising directly 6 supervisors (1ER, 1IPD, 1OT and 3 IPC) and 170 staff indirectly ( ER nurses, IPD nurses, OT nurses, anesthesia technicians, sterilization technicians, Head of hygiene agent, hygiene agents and stretcher bearers).
- Participate in yearly POA review and feedback for the New Year POA.
- Participating in monthly reporting with collaborations from Supervisors and submit it to hospital director.
- Ensure the medical supplies review and updating in ER, IPD, OT and IPC stock. With weekly, biweekly and monthly review.
- Ensure the improvement of quality care in all hospital departments.
- SIPCA assessment and upgrading level from L3 to L4, following and updating the SIPCA POA.
- Capacity of 8 beds in ER (2 red and 6 yellow), 41 beds in IPD (10 Pediatric, 17 neonates,
7 malnutrition, 5 KMC and 2 isolation).
- IPC focal point for all the departments in the hospital.
- Ensured the implementation of MSF protocols and guidelines with regards to IPC, waste segregation, nursing skills, etc.
- Carried out administrative HR related issues (rosters, annual/sick/circumstantial leaves, incident reports and recruitments).
- Identified training needs for the staff and created a training schedule.
- Identified problems in the departments and brought up solutions/plans (Patients peaks, COVID precautions, waste segregations).
- Update MCP contacts and MCP stock for different locations.
- Implement Narcotics policy following MSF SOP in all departments.
- Manage daily activity in the department to insure the process of patients care is smooth and efficient with collaboration with head of the department or the other actors involved.
- Insure the standards and the protocols are implemented and followed by the staff (hygiene, waste segregation, nursing skills and medical ethics to ensure patients’ rights to privacy and confidentiality are respected).
-Supervise the department medications( stored or in use) and medical equipment management
( orders, follow-up of the stock, storage conditions, inventories, follow-up of expired drugs and their destruction, drugs consumption.)to satisfy the needs of material with efficiency and effectiveness.
-Carry out data collection and check (patient’s files, records, registration books and statistics) and report it in regular manner to the medical focal point.
- Carry out administrative ‘HR related issues’ (monthly schedules, annual leaves, absence and incidents reports) and assist in staff evaluations in profession manner.
-Support the head of the department and other actors involved in day to day task, identify problems in the departments and bring up solutions and plans to avoid it in the future.
- Identify the knowledge gaps in the team and establish trainings ( formal trainings and bed side trainings) to develop the nursing care.
- Attend meetings concerned the department to keep up with new update and share department activities.
1-Responsible for working closely with the direct supervisor to organize daily tasks.
2-Liaise with other health facilities and NGO's. Organize meetings with outside actors and documenting it.
3- Liaise with local authorities (Police), to insure safety and legality of work.
4- Data entry of the medical data, with managing, monitoring and analyzing.
5-managing out patient clinics.
6-Facilitate patient's medical needs (diagnostics, consultations and admissions).
7- Involved in Mass casualty organizing admissions and transferring and follow upon the cases.
8-Translation when needed and in scope of the above mentioned tasks.
1-Identify patients' age-specific needs and alter care plans as necessary to meet those needs.
2- Perform approved therapeutic or diagnostic procedures based upon patients' clinical status.
3-Evaluate patients' vital signs and laboratory data to determine emergency intervention needs.
4-Administer blood and blood products, monitoring patients for signs and symptoms related to transfusion reactions.
5- Administer medications intravenously, by injection, orally, through gastric tubes, or by other methods.
6- Advocate for patients' and families' needs, or provide emotional support for patients and their families.
7-Set up and monitor medical equipment and devices such as cardiac monitors, mechanical ventilators and alarms, oxygen delivery devices, transducers, and pressure lines.
8- Monitor patients' fluid intake and output to detect emerging problems such as fluid and electrolyte imbalances.
9- Monitor patients for changes in status and indications of conditions such as sepsis or shock and institute appropriate interventions.
10-Collaborate with other health care professionals to develop and revise treatment plans based on identified needs and assessment data.
11-Document patients' medical histories, assessment findings. Document patients' treatment plans, interventions, outcomes, or plan revisions.
1-Identify patients' age-specific needs and alter care plans as necessary to meet those needs.
2- Perform approved therapeutic or diagnostic procedures based upon patients' clinical status.
3-Evaluate patients' vital signs and laboratory data to determine emergency intervention needs.
4-Administer blood and blood products, monitoring patients for signs and symptoms related to transfusion reactions.
5-Administer medications intravenously, by injection, orally, through gastric tubes, or by other methods.
6- Advocate for patients' and families' needs, or provide emotional support for patients and their families.
7-Set up and monitor medical equipment and devices such as cardiac monitors, mechanical ventilators and alarms, oxygen delivery devices, transducers, and pressure lines.
8- Monitor patients' fluid intake and output to detect emerging problems such as fluid and electrolyte imbalances.
9- Monitor patients for changes in status and indications of conditions such as sepsis or shock and institute appropriate interventions.
10- Collaborate with other health care professionals to develop and revise treatment plans based on identified needs and assessment data.
11-Document patients' medical histories, assessment findings and patients' treatment plans, interventions, outcomes, or plan revisions.
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