Vacancy - Midwife for Kabul, Afghanistan
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Job Title Certified Nurse-Midwives
Organisation International Medical Corps (http://www.imcworldwide.org)
Organisation Description International Medical Corps is a global humanitarian nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs.
Job Location Afghanistan (Kabul)
Closing date 15 mrt 2005
Job Description and qualifications:
Job Description:
IMC is seeking Certified Nurse-Midwives to join the Rabia Balkhi Hospital project in Kabul, Afghanistan. The CNM will work with national staff counterparts in the supervision of hospital personnel, which includes work allocation, training, and problem resolution; evaluate performance and make recommendations for personnel actions; motivate employees to achieve peak productivity and performance. Provide full-scope midwifery nursing care to patients. Teach midwifery to medical and nurse-midwifery students, and others in both clinical and didactic settings. Provide advice and consultation in the development of certified nurse-midwifery practices, clinical practices and guidelines. Develop and implement systems and processes to establish and maintain records for the operating unit.
Education and/or Experience:
The Certified Nurse-Midwives (CNMs) will have at least a bachelor's degree and may have masters' or doctoral degrees. CNMs will have completed both nursing and midwifery training and passed national and state licensing exams to become certified by the American College of Nurse Midwives (ACNM). CNMs will have practical experience in independent management of womens healthcare, focusing particularly on pregnancy, childbirth, the postpartum period, care of the newborn, family planning, and gynecological needs of women.
Applications for this position should be sent to:
Please apply online at "International Medical Corps": www.imcworldwide.org
Job reference code: RW_46628L
Home Page: http://www.reliefweb.int
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IMC's Mission
International Medical Corps is a global humanitarian nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs. Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, IMC is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in areas worldwide where few organizations dare to serve. By offering training and health care to local populations and medical assistance to people at highest risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergency situations, IMC rehabilitates devastated health care systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.
A Focus on Training for Long-Term Success
IMC staff and volunteers come from all over the world and are united by a common goal: to save lives and alleviate the suffering of those affected by war, disease, and devastation. To help meet this goal, IMC places special emphasis on training local medical personnel in the skills and knowledge needed to rebuild their own health care systems. IMC provides extensive, hands-on training in the full range of health and managerial skills needed to restore self-reliance. Those who train with IMC, including thousands of female health care workers, go on to teach others in their communities, thus expanding IMC's legacy of care.
Where There is a Need, IMC is in the Field
Since its founding in 1984, IMC has responded to man-made and natural catastrophes in more than 40 countries on four continents. IMC currently is providing lifesaving care in Afghanistan, Angola, Azerbaijan, Burundi, Chad, DRC, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Georgia, Indonesia, Ingushetia, Iraq, Kenya, Liberia, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. In previous years, IMC has also helped hundreds of thousands of suffering civilians in Albania, Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cambodia, Croatia, East Timor, Honduras, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Mozambique, Nagorno-Karabakh, Namibia, Nicaragua, Rwanda, Serbia, Thailand, Ukraine, F.R. Yugoslavia, and Zambia.
IMC health care services include:
* Primary health care (PHC) basic preventative and curative services, with a focus on the most vulnerable victims
of suffering: children, women, and the elderly
* Maternal and child health care (MCH) mass immunizations, well-child clinics, and training for midwives and
traditional birth attendants to reduce maternal and child mortality
* Health education and training in the medical and managerial skills needed to serve local communities suffering
from a breakdown in health services
* Emergency relief and disaster response vital emergency medical care, war and trauma surgery, nutrition, and
water/sanitation assistance provided at the very onset of a humanitarian crisis
* HIV/AIDS diagnosis, treatment and prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STI) and opportunistic
infections, as well as training for HIV/AIDS caretakers, distribution of appropriate drug therapies, and public
education
* Reproductive Health Care a full range of services for women to promote better health, particularly during the
child-bearing years;
* Water and sanitation to control the spread of waterborne diseases amongst vulnerable communities
* Reconstructive and rehabilitative surgery to improve the physical and psychological health of victims of
warfare, including women and children
* Nutrition services supplemental and therapeutic feeding programs for populations affected by famine and food
shortages, particularly small children
* Microfinance community-based initiatives to help restore economic self sufficiency and help finance local health
programs
* Gender and sexual based violence training for local health care workers to increase awareness of gender-based
violence and establish treatment protocols
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Some items founds on Google
Afghan hospital needs help
... By Julie O'Shea. Rabia Balkhi Hospital sits in the middle of a busy street
in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan. It is one of the city's ...
Kabul Revisited
... and big day for Rabia Balkhi hospital and it's physicians. Officials from Afghanistan
s Department Public Health and the US embassy in Kabul , the US ...
www.afghanmed.org/Kabul_Revisitrd.htm - 19k -
HHS Training Program for Afghanistan, February 26, 2003 ...
... HHS is gearing up to open a maternal and child health teaching clinic at
Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan in mid-April. ...
www.aana.com/news/2003/news022603.asp - 10k -
Phoenix Story
... KABUL, Afghanistan - Sewage on the floors, locked doors, no electricity, high mortality ...
is a part of everyday life for patients at the Rabia Balkhi Hospital. ...
www.cherokee.org/Phoenix/2004/PhoenixPage.asp?ID=605 - 18k -
DefendAmerica Photo Essay
... Rene Dolder of the 360th Civil Affairs Battalion what is being done here
at the Rabia Balkhi Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. The ...
Rabia Balkhi Hospital Project - Home Page
The Rabia Balkhi Hospital Project was started to raise money for medical
supplies for Rabia Balkhi Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. ...
photos
... audition for a news readers position at Radio Afghanistan in Kabul on Thursday ... Afghan
doctors, walk through a corridor of the Rabia Balkhi hospital for women ...
photos.blogspot.com/ - 22k -
UNFPA: News
... is the best maternal care available in Afghanistan. ... the Khain Khana clinic and Rabia
Balkhi hospital, and for ... Malalai Hospital will arrive in Kabul in early ...
Related:
United Muslim Midwives (UMM)
"Striving to Please Allah by caring for our Sisters" Our group is comprised of dedicated Muslim Midwives
and other childbearing professionals (CBE's, Doulas, Lactation Consultants, etc.) Our goal is to support,
educate and provide Muslim Sisters and others with Taqwah and Ihsan, Insha'Allah."
Midwives on Usenet: sci.med.midwifery http://groups.google.be/groups?q=sci.med.midwifery&hl=nl
Islamic Relief http://www.islamic-relief.com/
Worth a visit: http://www.medicamondiale.org/index_e.html
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