Bangladesh: Volunteer - Nursing Staff - RN, Bangladesh

Nurses needed to volunteer in response to the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh.

Medical Teams International responds to disasters where the needs are urgent, where we have access, and where our resources can bring healing where there is no other option. Working in collaboration with our Integral Alliance partners on the ground, Medical Teams International is sending volunteer medical staff, mainly doctors and nurses, to serve in the Kutupalong settlement area. Our goal is to reach 100,000 Rohingya refugees with essential health care and hygiene services. Activities include helping to prevent the outbreak of infectious disease through community outreach activities connected to a temporary Diarrhea Treatment Unit, serving as a vital link between the critically ill and their access to emergency care–referring patients with urgent needs to nearby healthcare facilities and providing direct medical services.

Background: Medical Teams International is a humanitarian organization that had activities in 27 countries, and assisted nearly three million people in 2016. Medical Teams International has been working in some of the most challenging environments since the 1970s and seeks to boldly break barriers to health and restore wholeness in a hurting world. Our team of professionals in country and around the world are working tirelessly to bring relief and advancing health for people affected by disasters, conflict, and inequity. Medical Teams International is a proven and successful organization that is ready, skilled, focused, and faithful. We are compelled by compassion; called to action; and committed to the communities we serve.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

· Provide direct patient care in diagnostic and treatment in emergency primary healthcare in case of absence of local health care providers.

· Identify the educational, training and capacity building needs of community health workers and supervise on daily basis.

· Monitor and supervise health care delivery by local counterparts and community health workers.

· Ensure that patients have up to date records and are accurately registered and recorded for reporting and case management.

· Ensure healthcare products management (stockage, dispersment, warehousing, reconciliation).

· Oversee clinic staff and ward management.

· Teach basic sanitation and public health; theory of disease causation; treatment and prevention; disease diagnosis and drug treatment of common diseases; community nutrition; techniques for the identification of the malnourished child, treatment and growth monitoring, MCH and ANC.

Experience:

· Minimum clinical nursing degree, Nurse Practitioner or Physician's Assistant; Public Health is an advantage.

· Experience in overseas programs relating to primary health care, communicable diseases; experience in maternal and child health, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS is an advantage.

· Minimum of 2 years of experience required, of which 1 year should be of developing country experience or resource deprived environment.

· Previous NGO experience an advantage.

· Will have excellent communications skills, both oral and written.

· Ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions independently.

· Extremely flexible, and have the ability to cope with stressful situations and frustrations.

· Ability to relate to and motivate local staff effectively.

· Creativity and the ability to work with limited resources.

· Must be able to speak English fluently

· Speaking Bengali is a bonus

Commitment:

·**December 14^th– January 15^th**

For additional information please visit:

www.medicalteams.org/take-action/volunteer/disaster-response-volunteering

Submit an online application here.

Interested volunteers who meet the criteria should email their materials for consideration to;

volunteer@medicalteams.org

We will ask for the following documents:

· Current resume/CV

· Color passport scan

· Copy of current medical license

· Yellow fever vaccination

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