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Nurses

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Where we are working


Adelaide

Date: Tuesday, 13th March

Time: 6.30pm - 8.30pm

Venue:

The Conference Room

BioSA Incubator Conference Centre, 40 – 46 West Thebarton Road, THEBARTON SA 5031, Telephone: +61 8 8152 9300

Map:

Melbourne

21 March 2012 - time and venue TBC.

A Médecins Sans Frontières nurse examines a young child in one of our nutritional centres.
© Susan Sandars / MSF

As a nurse working for Médecins Sans Frontières your training and supervisory skills will be utilised to the full. The contexts in which you work may vary from taking part in a mass vaccination for meningitis, managing a maternal-child health program or triaging an influx of displaced people fleeing conflict.

Your expertise will be called upon to support local staff in the upgrading of their skills. On the other hand local nurses and health workers will be ‘old hands’ at managing tropical diseases you may never have worked with before.

Nurses with expertise in paediatrics, tropical diseases, emergency care, operating theatre nursing, immunisation, public health and training are particularly useful in the field.

REQUIREMENTS

  • RN (Div.1) status & absolute minimum of two years experience post-qualification in areas such as Public Health, Obstetrics, Paediatrics, Nutrition, Emergency, ICU, Infectious Diseases (STDs, HIV/AIDS, TB), Surgical/Post Operative Care, Operating Theatres
  • Additional studies in one of the following: refugee health, international public health, infectious diseases (especially TB and HIV/AIDS), tropical nursing OR relevant work experience in developing countries and/or indigenous communities
  • Available to work infield for a minimum of 9 months

ASSETS

  • Senior managerial experience (eg Clinical Nurse Director, Service Manager)
  • Clinical education and/or training experience
  • 5+ years work experience post-qualification

STORIES FROM THE FIELD

Helle Poulsen-Dobbyns writes of her work in Malawi.

Colin Watson writes of his work in Ethiopia.