Nutrition Nurse (for Afghan female only)

Main Responsibilities

Objective 1: Provide Treatment services for acute malnourish Under 5 children and PLW.

• Perform screening & promotion to all U5 children who are visiting HFs/MNTs services.
• Classification of all U5 children in categories of well-nourished and Acute Malnutrition (SAM & MAM).
• Enrolment of all acute malnourished children to OPD SAM/MAM programs.
• Provide nutritional treatment to enrolled malnourished children according to IMAM treatment protocols.
• Perform history taking and physical & medical examination including childhood illness of beneficiaries during admission time as well during follow-up visits. 
• Perform appetite tests for each admitted patient during admission time and decide on the provision of treatment services or refer to higher treatment services.
• Perform anthropometric measurements during follow-up visits.
• Ensure nutritional follow-up of the beneficiaries.
• Prescribe routine medication to admitted patients during admission time according to the approved treatment protocol.
• Identify those beneficiaries who do not respond to the treatment and manage their follow-up.

• Refer severely acutely malnourished beneficiaries with medical complications to higher health centers (IPD – SAM or Podiatric ward) for advanced treatment. 
• Ensure medical examination at discharge time and validate the discharge upon the status of the beneficiaries.
• Check if all the procedures are completed before discharge (anthropometric measurements, medical and nutritional treatment, systematic treatment, and health and nutrition education to caretakers).
• Check that the criteria of discharge are met and act according to the approved treatment guidelines.
• Record all the necessary information on the existing reporting tools (registration book and card for each beneficiary etc...)
• Provide health and nutrition education to the caregivers on breastfeeding, complementary feeding, hygiene, care of pregnant and lactating women, and prevention of illness.

Objective 2: Prepare all the material /Reporting tools and documentation.

• Before leaving the office ensure all the material is ready and active (relevant equipment, registers, nutritional supplies, medicines…).
• Keep all items in the field very well and after the field visit, clean and prepare the use in the coming day.
• Update all reporting tools daily.
• Keep and maintain a good filing system for all documents.
• Prepared the reports (Daily, Weekly, and monthly) according to the standard reporting tools.
• Assist line supervisor in performing other duties assigned by the organization.

Objective 3: Support the counselor on Infant Young Child Feeding (IYCF) counseling:

• Promote breastfeeding skills by spreading relevant 1000 days of life messages to mothers and caretakers.
• Provide Key IYCF messages to the mothers and caretakers during the performing of GMP to under 2 years of children.
• Organize group sessions on basic/key messages on 1000 days of life to caretakers who are visiting HFs.
• Refer patients to proper services based on needs (having complications).
• Support the conduction of nutrition and health education sessions for clients.
• Record all the necessary information on the existing reporting tools.