Nurse -Individual Contractor(IC)

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the overall guidance of the Chief Medical Officer, the Nurse will be responsible for the following duties:

• Assists Medical Officers in responding to emergency calls to provide adequate care to patients; ensures effective liaison between patient and the Mission's Doctor, Medical Officers, paramedics, family members, and colleagues as appropriate; documents case findings.
• Performs ECG, x-rays and other medical exams such as blood tests, glucose, cholesterol and urine exams, as required.
• Assesses needs of clients visiting the walk-in clinic; provides care/advise (e.g., the benefits of preventive medicine, etc) accordingly or facilitates referral to the UN Medical Officer or to an outside physician, as indicated.
• Assists in ensuring the preparedness of staff travelling on missions or reassignments, including administration of appropriate vaccine, instructions on malaria prophylaxis and other travel-related ailments.
• Instructs in the content and potential uses of the travel kit.
• Collect nasopharyngeal swab specimen for PCR tests and perform PCR tests
• Perform any other related duties as required.