The Health and Nutrition Nurse supports Health facility by providing screening, treatment and care to under-five children with SAM and MAM, performing nursing procedures, assisting medical staff, and delivering health and hygiene education session in the target health facility. Specific key duties include managing admissions, treatment, follow-up, and discharge of U5 children, maintaining supplies, ensuring clinic readiness, and preparing routine reports. In addition to nutrition related activities, the health and nutrition nurse is responsible to take care of clients/patient/injured visiting the health facility for emergency services and performing OPD counseling and treatment in the absence of the medical doctor according to treatment protocol/guidelines line NSTG and IMNCI. The role requires organizational skills and a commitment to quality care in challenging settings.
Admissions and follow up of eligible children U5:
- Conduct Screening and identify beneficiaries at risk according to the OPD SAM/MAM admission criteria.
- Manage the medical examination at the admission stage: validate admission of beneficiaries in OPD.
- Refer severe acutely malnourished children with medical complications to Therapeutic Feeding Units (TFU);
- Check vaccinations and refer to vaccination facilities when required;
- Ensure nutritional follow-up of the SAM/MAM children.
- Ensure medical examination at discharge: validate the discharge upon the status of the patients.
- Check that the criteria of discharge is met and that the immunization is satisfactory (after prior referral).
- Follow up of the defaulted children.
- Health and hygiene Education for health facility beneficiaries
- Support Nutrition counsellors.
• AT discharge
- Check if all the procedures completed before discharge (anthropometric measurements, medical and nutritional treatment, systematic treatment, and health and nutrition educations).
- Record all the necessary information on the registration book and card for each beneficiary.
• Health and nutrition educations
- Provide health and nutrition educations to the caregivers and beneficiaries on (breastfeeding, complementary feeding, and hygiene, care of pregnant and lactating women, prevention of illness).
Provide Treatment for SAM and MAM under 5 children and provision of OPD services in the community outreach areas:
- Provide nutritional treatment to admitted malnourished children according to IMAM guideline treatment protocols.
- Prescribe routine medication to the admitted patient during admission time according to the approved treatment protocol.
- Provision of OPD services in the community outreach areas in projects that is applicable and doing OPD in absence of medical doctor in the health facility. .
- Routine nursing activity such as IV fluid, injection, dressing, and taking care of wounds including burn cases, trauma, RTAs etc.
Prepare all the materials:
- Ensure all the material is ready and active (relevant equipment’s, registers, nutritional supplies, medicines…).
- Keep all items in the clinic very well, clean and prepare the using in coming day.
- Update all reporting tools on daily basis.
- Keep and maintain a good filing system for all documents
- Prepared the reports (Daily, Weekly and monthly) according to the standard reporting tools
Objective 3: Any other tasks given by his/her line management or supervisor:
Key relations
Internal:
- Health facility In-charge: Line Manager (in absence of In-charge, the Field Supervisor will be the line manager)
- HERP: technical support
External:
- Exchange of information & coordination with (upon request from the manager):
- EPHS and BPHS Health Facilities
