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About PU-AMI

PU-AMI (known globally as Première Urgence Internationale, PUI) is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-political and non-religious international aid organization. PU-AMI’s teams are committed to support vulnerable communities and populations, those marginalized, hit by conflict, natural disaster or economic downturns. PU-AMI’s main objective is to contribute to reduction in morbidity and mortality, and provide emergency relief to those in immediate need in order to help them regain their dignity.

Afghan mission is the oldest of PUI missions, with the first medical intervention launched in 1979 just after the Soviet troops crossed the country’s borders. PU-AMI teams currently deliver the integrated health care, combined with nutrition, psychosocial support; water, sanitation and hygiene (wash), as well as trauma services. The organization implements projects mainly in eastern parts of the country, and increasingly in the South-East Region. Since the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, PU-AMI has also positioned itself as one of the main actors in preparedness and response to the pandemic, implementing health and wash-cantered activities at health facilities and community level in Kabul and beyond.

Globally, PUI provides assistance to around 6 million people in 23 countries and across 5 continents: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Latin America, and Europe.

Job Description

Responsibilities and particular assignmentsمسؤلیت ها و وظایف مشخص

Under direct management of the technical project manager, the Nurse is responsible for the following main activities in order to ensure the provision of quality of  trauma and PFA  FATP:

• Ensure the patients triage, registration and measurements of vital signs
• Dressing and first aid care of injured patients
• To stabilize  the patient and Facilitate the referral of patients
• Take part to the management of pharmaceutical goods and medical equipment
• Conduct health education/promotion sessions
• Recording and reporting of beneficiaries.
• Taking and recording of the phone number of the beneficiary in the register as much as possible ( this will allow the team to ask the beneficiary feedback and satisfaction from the services during the assessment)
• Providing of PFA services to the patient in need.
• Do regular follow up with the CHW focal point to ensure the availability of the support (first aid) to the trauma affected people.

Tasks and responsibilities

• Ensure the patients triage, registration and measurements of vital signs

• Organize the waiting time of patients by ensuring a well-organized queue system according to priorities, emergency cases and first come, first served basis
• Identify patient in need of urgent care and refer them immediately to the equipped surgical centre.
• Register any patient coming to seek care in the registration book
• Take the measure of vital signs (blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate, temperature) for all registered patients

• Realize paramedics acts

• Follow the basic medical rules of hygiene/IP when performing any paramedics act
• Do injections according to necessity and/or prescription and in respect to PU-AMI protocols and rules of hygiene
• Perform any other acts (e.g.: aerosol, bandage) as required by the Medical Doctor, in respect to PU-AMI protocols and rules of hygiene
• Perform dressing and first aid to injured patients.

• Facilitate the referral of patients

• Respect the PU-AMI Standards of Procedures for referral and stabilization of patients
• Recording the relevant information in the patients register book and referral sheet.
• Accompany patients to the external referral HF when required
• Ensure the patient follow up in respect to Medical Doctor recommendations

• Conduct health education/promotion sessions

• Conduct short awareness sessions to the patients regarding PFA services in the different waiting areas as much as possible.
• Share key messages during individual consultation, in relation to specific health need of each patient
• Provide PFA consultation for those who need after trauma.
• Refer the patients who need to upper level health facility.

• Recording and reporting of beneficiaries.

• Tally and register each patient in dressing and HMIS registers.
• Prepare monthly activates charts and graphs of the beneficiaries.
• Prepare weekly and monthly reports and submit it on time to provincial office.
• Keep the copy of monthly activity report, monthly pharmacy consumption report in a separate file.
• Timely updating of stock cards for all the available medicines and consumables in FATPs.

Skills Required

• COMMUNICATION
• Flexible and can work under pressure.

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