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Nurses/Midwives
Clinical Functions
Prenatal
Provide pre-pregnancy advice on health, including nutrition education
Provide family planning information and services
Provide syndromic management of sexually transmitted illnesses (STIs)
Provide of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) counselling and testing
Antenatal
Ensure that all pregnant women that visit the health facilities are identified and receive antenatal services
Conduct antenatal clinics and provide health education on the importance of ante-natal care and on the danger signs of pregnancy
Give appropriate doses of tetanus toxoid, Intermittent Preventive Therapy (IPT) and other routine drugs to pregnant women
Provide HIV counselling and testing
Provide Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) services
Identify high risk pregnancies and refer appropriately
Labour
Manage complications from miscarriages and/or unsafe abortions
Promptly recognize women in labor
Manage labor, treat complications, and make appropriate and prompt referrals where necessary
Provide appropriate emergency obstetric care for all women who develop complications during childbirth
Refer mother and baby for interventions beyond personal technical competence or not possible in the facility setting
Post-natal
Assist women to successfully initiate breast feeding within 30 minutes of delivery and continue to sustain breast feeding
Follow up of women for continuum of care and track defaulters, where necessary
Work with other team members to ensure appropriate link between clinic staff and community-based service providers
Newborn and child health services
Provide resuscitative effort to newborns, where necessary
Carry out growth-monitoring and promotion of children’s health in the community
Promote infant and child health including participation in the National Program on Immunization and management of childhood malaria
Supervise immunization of children
Provide Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) services
Administrative Functions
Participate in regular staff meetings for feedback on ongoing activities
Together with other staff of the facility, liaise with the Ward Development Committee (WDC) to support and maintain all equipment provided to the facility and ensure the drugs and consumables allotted to the health facilities are well managed
Participate in monthly briefing of the WDC of their activities and challenges
Maintain appropriate logistics for drugs and consumables to avoid stock outs
Ensure records of activities of the health facility are kept using all relevant books and forms provided
Ensure that all relevant data collected on the PHC Health Management Information System are collated, analyzed and the information used for decision making
Carry out all assigned administrative functions, including supervisory functions for Community Health Extension Workers (CHEWs)
Receive supervision and mentoring from designated officials
Participate in all statutory meetings and training related to the facility and the program
Effectively document all required information and provide statutory reports as at when due
Submit monthly joint reports to the LGA PHC department with the CHEWs in the facility
Community Health Extension Workers
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