Nurse, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Duties and Responsibilities

A. Clinical Duties

• Responds to emergency calls and assist UN Health Manager.
• Ensures effective liaison between patient and private doctor, paramedics, family members, and colleagues as appropriate, documents case findings.
• Assist the UN Health Manager with the management, organization, and coordination of fever, Covid-19 symptoms, or any outbreak in an isolation room at the duty station.
• Support the UN Health Manager in the management of the isolation room for medium and in severe cases prepare the patient to transfer to an outbreak facility.
• Performs point-of-care screening tests and alerts UN Health Manager to activate the response team for sample collection.
• Performs clinical assessment of patients at the duty station; provides care/advice accordingly or facilitates referral to the UN Clinic or to an outside physician, as indicated.
• Ensures preparedness of staff at the duty station, instructing on Covid-19 or epidemic mitigation measures and other ailments.
• Assists in providing health education and health promotion programs; participates in work environment assessment with special emphasis on the preventative measures of Covid-19 or any outbreak.

B. Medical Administrative duties

• Assists UN Health Officer in all her/his activities as required.
• Ensures that medical instruments are properly sterilized.
• Ensures proper filing of medical and other records, must ensure use of the electronic filing system namely Earthmed.
• Evaluates, orders, and maintains an efficient inventory and stock control.

C. Interaction and Client Orientation

• Provide good client orientation to all UN staff across the organization, partner agencies etc.