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23 Universities and Colleges in the US Without Application Fees.

I will be posting a list of Universities and Colleges in the US without application fees and those with application fee waivers.
Save them so you can apply as soon as their application opens for their next intake.

By August and September, most of the universities in the USA will open their application for Fall 2025.

Apply when their application opens.

  1. Baylor University Texas
  2. Carleton College Minnesota
  3. Case Western Reserve University Ohio
  4. Colby College Maine
  5. College of Wooster Ohio
  6. Colorado College Colorado
  7. Denison University Ohio
  8. Depaul University Indiana
  9. Drake University Iowa
  10. Grinnell College Iowa
  11. Illinois Wesleyan College Illinois
  12. Kenyon College Ohio
  13. Lawrence University Wisconsin
  14. Macalester College Minnesota
  15. Ohio Wesleyan University Ohio
  16. Rhodes College Tennessee
  17. Smith College Massachusetts
  18. Southwestern University Texas
  19. St Louis University Missouri
  20. St Olaf College Minnesota
  21. Tulane College Louisiana
  22. Union College New York
  23. Wellesley College Massachusetts
If you are preparing for the 2024/2025 admission/Scholarship cycle, here is your ideal timeline:

1st April-June 2024:

Gather Application Documents:

  • Academic Transcript
  • Academic CV
  • LoR contacts
    -Write TOEFL/IELTS/GRE to increase your chances.

2nd June-August 2024:

-Start sending emails to Professors

  • Identify potential supervisorsand PIs
  • Align your interests with their research areas
  • Send cold mails

3rd August – September 2024

  • Pencil down schools to apply to
  • Get all the requirements set
  • Enumerate your fit for programme
  • Write GRE/English Tests/WES Evaluation if you have not.

4th September 2024 – March 2025:

  • Apply for Admission/Scholarship
  • Attend interviews
  • Attend virtual open days

5th March-May 2025:

Prepare to travel

Note the following:

Ensure you meet admission requirements

  • Review the specific requirements for your graduate program and the Faculty of Graduate Studies.
  • Plan ahead for required documents
  • Allow 2-6 months to prepare and collect all necessary documents, including transcripts and test scores.
  • Identify a supervisor
  • Research and contact potential supervisors in your graduate program of interest.
  • Submit your application
  • Complete the online application and pay the application fee.
  • An application is completely submitted when all your Referees have responded to your LoR request.
  • Provide additional program-specific documents
  • Check your program requirements for any additional documents that may be needed

Sheffield Offers Scholarship For Africans For These Courses

  1. MA International Development.
  2. MSc Environmental Change and International Development.
  3. MPH International Development

Fully funded scholarship at Sheffield University for Africans.

The scholarship includes:

  1. Full tuition fee
  2. Accommodation in a single occupant en-suite room in University halls of residence
  3. £8,000 maintenance support

Check the requirements here to see if you are eligible for this scholarship.

This is a comprehensive list of schools that accept HND with(out) WES:

  1. Northern Illinois University
  2. Eastern Illinois University
  3. West Virginia University
  4. Minnesota State University
  5. Jacksonville State University
  6. Montclair state university
  7. California State University, (Sacramento, Fresno and Ponoma.
  8. University of California Merced
  9. University of Southern California
  10. Georgia Southern University
  11. South Carolina University
  12. Western Illinois University
  13. Western Kentucky University
  14. University of Kentucky
  15. Murray State University
  16. University of Louisville
  17. Kentucky State University
  18. University of North Carolina, Charlotte
  19. Vanderbilt University
  20. Tufts University
  21. Wesleyan University
  22. Lehigh University
  23. West Chester University
  24. University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
  25. Georgia State University
  26. Purdue University West Lafayette
  27. West Virginia University
  28. University of Ohio, Athens
  29. Clemson University
  30. Brandeis University
  31. University of Tusla
  32. Indiana University Bloomington
  33. Furman University (No app fee)
  34. New Mexico State University
  35. Michigan Tech
  36. University of Massachusetts- Amherst
  37. Claremont Gradute school
  38. University of Maine
  39. Bowling Green State University
  40. South Dakota University
  41. University of Cincinnati
  42. Auburn University
  43. Iowa State University
  44. Saint Louis University
  45. Loyola Marymount University
  46. Case Western Reserve University
  47. James Madison University
  48. Temple University
  49. University of Missouri
  50. University of Oklahoma
  51. University of Dayton
  52. Arizona State University
  53. Washington State University
  54. American University
  55. University of Cincinnati
  56. University of South Carolina
  57. University of Connecticut
  58. Chapman University
  59. DePauls University
  60. University of Southern Missouri
  61. University of Kansas
  62. University of Lincoln- Nebraska
  63. Florida State University
  64. University of Alabama
  65. University of New Orleans
  66. Western Carolina University
  67. Tulane University

Centre Coordinator (Doctor) At MSI Nigeria

MSI Nigeria Reproductive Choices is a result-oriented social enterprise, which uses modern management and marketing techniques to provide reproductive health care and allied services. MSI Nigeria’s goal is to meet the needs of underserved Nigerians and dramatically improve access and use of a range of reproductive health services. MSI Nigeria Reproductive Choices is part of Marie Stopes International’s Global Partnership which is in over 37 countries worldwide and it operates in Nigeria through six service delivery channels.

Job Position: Central Coordinator (Doctor)

Job Location: FCT, Abuja, Nigeria

Job Objectives

The Centre Coordinator at MSI is responsible for effectively and efficiently delivering clinical services in alignment with the organization’s strategy. They contribute to MSI’s future program direction, drive sustainability, and increase access to family planning and reproductive health services. 

The coordinator provides leadership to the medical team, ensuring the achievement of MSI’s mission and targets. They coordinate clinic units, establish effective communication systems, and develop the team’s business and management capacity. 

Additionally, they oversee clinical services, maintain quality care, manage resources, and collaborate with government and non-governmental agencies. The role requires a degree in Nursing/Midwifery/Public Health, 6 years of relevant experience, and strong technical and interpersonal skills. 

Responsibilities

  1. In Charge Of Strategy and Planning:
    1. Contributing towards MSI Nigeria’s strategy and future programme direction, with particular focus on driving MSI Nigeria towards programme sustainability and increasing access to

family planning and SRH services in Nigeria through proper clinical services

  • Actively participate in MSI Nigeria quarterly performance reviews
    • Contributing to annual business plans and facilitating the business planning process (service target setting and activity planning in MSI-Clinics)
    • Assisting the development of project ideas and providing input into proposals to attract donor funds.
    • Prepares clinical services annual targets and when approved, ensures their implementation.
  • Possess Team Leadership: Ability to provide overall leadership and direction to the medical team in ensuring the achievement of MSI Nigeria’s mission and strategic objectives as well as targets of the clinic.
    • Coordinate the different clinic units (OPD, OR, Lab.) and is responsible for the organization, deployment, supervision and performance appraisal of clinic staff in accordance with MSI Nigeria personnel policies.
    • Set up effective communication system within the clinic and other units of MSI Nigeria program, technical and operational teams.
    • Establish the priorities and focus of the medical team under his clinic and ensure proper coordination.
    • Advise and provide expertise to all medical team.
    • Monitor and evaluate clinical services provided by the medical team and control the quality.

Developing strong business and management capacity amongst the medical team

  • Motivate, coach, train and continuously set and reviewing performance targets for the medical team.
  • Ensuring all human resource issues for the medical team are handled according to MSI Nigeria procedures.
  • Assess medical staff training needs and arrange training in consultation with the Team Development Manager, Area managers.
  • Conducting annual performance appraisals for the medical team

3 Clinical Services:

  • Ensures the maintenance of efficient delivery of client care and the confidentiality of all cases, in accordance with accepted standard medical practices and professional code of conduct. o Performs nursing duties, as required, including providing antenatal care, delivery service, family planning / MCH and counselling services, assisting the theatre nurse and disseminating health education/ information.
  • Decides on clients eligible for subsidized I free services, as per the organization’s standing regulations.
  • Ensures that clients’ cards and other records are up-to-date, orderly, properly filed and readily retrievable for reference and inspection.
  • Prepares and submits work programmes and periodic reports of the clinic.
  • Liaises, as appropriate with government and non-governmental agencies to promote MSI Nigeria’s interest.
  • Collaborates in the evaluation of clinical programmes and research undertaking and the subsequent application of research findings.

4. Resource Management:

  • Is responsible for the acquisition of drugs, contraceptives, and other supplies, ensures their proper receipt, storage, safe keep, issuance, and regular replenishment by pro-establishing re-order level.
  • Approves supplies’ requests and issuance and authorizes financial payments as per the organization’s financial policy.
  • Ensures that all fees collected from clients are deposited regularly. o Assists in the reviews of clinic service charges. o Performs other administrative duties essential for the day-to-day running of the clinic.
  • Identifies, proposes and when approved implements improved clinic management system designed for the enhancement of client load, the provision of quality of care and the sustainability of the programme.
  • Prepares and submits work plan and budget of the clinic.
  • Produce periodic performance report including service costs and expenses of the clinic. o Avails herself/himself to regular stock taking and audit as and when required.
  • Undertakes any other relevant duties that may be assigned to her/him by the Regional Manager/ Country director.

Job Qualification Requirments

  • A first degree in Medicine and Surgery (MBBS/MD) o Not less than 2 years post-NYSC experience in similar position. o Membership of relevant professional body o Ultrasound skills is an added advantage.

Experience within the reproductive healthcare sector o Track record in achieving clinical quality and financial targets

Note: There are no relocation allowances available for this position.

Interested persons may send a comprehensive resume with a brief cover letter as ONE MS Word document or PDF to msngrecruitment@msichoices.org.ng, no later than May 17th, 2024.

If candidates wish to be considered for the post, please specify the position in the subject line and the location.

Note that if the underline instructions are not followed application will not be considered.

MSI Nigeria Reproductive Choices provides equal opportunity in employment and prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of race, sex, colour, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.

Introduction To The Basics Of Child Health For Nurses In 2024

UNIT 1: LESSON 1

Learning Outcomes:

  • Define Paediatrics and child health terminologies.
  • Explain concepts and principles in Paediatrics and Child health.
  • Take a comprehensive paediatric history.

Meaning of Paediatrics:

  • It is a medical specialty that is concerned with the health of infants, children, and adolescents.
  • It focuses on their growth and development.
  • And aims for children to achieve their full potential as adults.
  • Medical specialty focusing on the care of newborn babies, sick babies, and premature babies.
  • Neonatology comes from:
  • Neo: new
  • Natal: birth
  • ology: science of

Preterm Birth:

  • Baby born before 37 weeks gestation.
  • Types of preterm babies:
  • AGA (Appropriate for Gestational Age)
  • SGA (Small for Gestational Age)
  • LGA (Large for Gestational Age)

Birth Weight Categories:

  • Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW): Baby weighing 1.5 kg or less.
  • Extremely Low Birth Weight: Baby weighing 1 kg or less.
  • Incredibly Low Birth Weight: Baby weighing 750 g or less.
  • LGA: Birth weight > 90th centile for gestational age.
  • SGA: Birth weight < 10th centile for gestational age.

Mortality Rates:

  • Infant Mortality Rate: Number of deaths in the first 12 months per 1000 live births.
  • Neonatal Mortality Rate: Number of deaths in the first 28 days per 1000 live births.
  • Perinatal Mortality Rate: Stillbirths and neonatal deaths up to 7 days per 1000 total births.

Perinatal Mortality:

  • Includes all stillbirths & neonatal deaths in the first week of life.
  • Any death or abortion > 500 g or death at 24 weeks and more.
  • Stillbirth: A baby born after 24 weeks gestation without any signs of life (cardiopulmonary activity).

Normal Newborn:

  • Born between 37—41 weeks.
  • Weighs 2.5 kg—4 kg.
  • Head circumference: 33—37 cm.
  • APGAR score: 7—10.
  • Length: 50 cm.
  • No abnormalities & does not require resuscitation at birth.

UNIT 1: TOPIC 2: PAEDIATRIC HISTORY

Introduction:

  • History-taking is the cornerstone of clinical practice.
  • Importance of distilling important information from history.
  • Builds clinical skills, attitude towards patients, and knowledge about diseases and disorders.

Starting the Interview:

  • Read referral letters and notes before starting the interview.
  • Welcome child and parents, address them by name.
  • Introduce yourself.
  • Determine the relationship of adult to child.
  • Establish eye contact and rapport with the family.
  • Ensure a welcoming and unthreatening interview room.
  • Have toys available for children.

History Taking:

  • Start with patient identification data.
  • Complain and duration (reason for hospital visit).
  • History of presenting illness.

Past Medical and Surgical History:

  • Previous illnesses, hospitalizations, operations.
  • Allergies, bleeding tendencies, accidents, injuries.
  • Past and present medications.

Antenatal History:

  • Mother’s health during pregnancy.
  • Relevant genetic history, infections during pregnancy.
  • Abnormalities detected in antenatal ultrasounds.
  • Antenatal profile and results, immunizations.

Natal History:

  • Type of labor and delivery.
  • Birth weight, duration of labor, APGAR score.
  • Neonatal details: respiratory distress, meconium passage, etc.

Nutrition History:

  • Breastfeeding, eating patterns, vomiting after feeds.

Developmental Milestones:

  • Key developmental milestones.
  • Control of neck, sitting, standing, walking, speaking, schooling.

Immunization History:

  • KEPI schedule, immunization status.

Personal Social Economic History:

  • Family and community details.
  • Parental occupation, economic status, housing, etc.

Family History:

  • Family illnesses, cause of death of close relatives.

Systemic Review:

  • Respiratory, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, and central nervous system.

Examination:

Approach:

  • Obtain child’s cooperation.
  • Make friends with the child, be confident but gentle.
  • Explain procedures in language children understand.
  • Leave unpleasant procedures till last.

Undressing Children:

  • Be sensitive to children’s modesty.
  • It’s kinder to let parents do the undressing.
  • Inspect the area to be examined in stages.

General Examination:

  • Initial survey or observations.
  • Inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation.

Respiratory System Examination:

  • Inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation.

Cardiovascular System Examination:

  • Inspection, palpation, and auscultation.

Per Abdominal Examination:

  • Routine examination, acute abdomen, abdominal distension or mass.
  • Associated signs in abdominal examinations.

Inspection:

  • Abdomen is protuberant in normal toddlers.
  • Causes of abdominal distension.
  • Fat
  • Fluid (ascites – uncommon in children, commonly nephrotic syndrome)
  • Faeces (constipation)
  • Flatus (malabsorption, intestinal obstruction)
  • Fetus (remember this when female child is in puberty)

Occasionally abdominal distension is caused by:

  • Grossly enlarged liver and/or spleen.
  • Muscle hypotonia.

Causes of Localized Abdominal Distension:

  • Upper abdomen: gastric dilatation from pyloric stenosis, hepatosplenomegaly.
  • Lower abdomen: distended bladder or masses.

Other signs to be inspected are:

  • Dilated veins and abdominal striae.

Abdominal Examination

Inspection

  • Inspect for operative scars
  • Inspect for peristalsis – from pyloric stenosis, intestinal obstruction
  • Inspect buttocks if well rounded or wasted as in malabsorption as in coeliac disease or malnutrition

Palpation

  • Use warm hands, explain, relax the child and keep the parent close at hand. Ask if it hurts
  • Palpate in systematic fashion – liver, spleen, kidneys, bladder through the four abdominal quadrants
  • Ask about any tenderness. Watch the child’s face for any grimacing as you palpate
  • NB: a young child may be cooperative if you first start palpating with his hand or putting your hand on top of his

Tenderness

  • Is localized in appendicitis, hepatitis, pyelonephritis, generalized mesenteric adenitis, peritonitis
  • Guarding: often not impressive on direct palpation in children. However pain on coughing, on moving about, on walking, bumps during a car journey suggests peritoneal irritation.
  • Back bent on walking maybe be from psoas inflammation in appendicitis

Hepatomegaly

  • Palpate from right iliac fossa
  • Locate edge with tips or side of finger
  • Edge maybe soft or firm
  • One is unable to get above it

Spleenomegaly

  • Palpate from left iliac fossa
  • Edge is usually soft
  • Unable to get above it
  • Moves with respiration
  • Measure size below costal margin (in cm) in mid clavicular line
  • If uncertain whether it palpable or not, use bimanual approach
  • A palpable spleen is at least twice its normal size

Causes of Spleenomegaly

  • Congenital Infections, Infectious mononucleosis
  • Hepatitis, Malaria, Parasitic infections, Haematological, -Sickle cell anemia, Thalassemia

Causes of Hepatomegaly

  • Liver disease, Chronic active hepatitis, Portal hypertension, Polycystic disease, Malignancy- Leukemia Lymphoma, Neuroblastoma, Wilms tumor, Hepatocellular carcinoma
  • Metabolic – Glycogen and lipid storage disorders, Mucopolysaccharidosis
  • Cardiovascular- Heart failure

Kidneys

  • Not usually palpable beyond neonatal period unless enlarged or the abdominal muscles are hypotonic
  • Palpate by balloting bimanually
  • They move on respiration
  • One can get above them
  • Tenderness implies inflammation

Abdominal masses

  • Wilms tumor – these are renal masses, sometimes are visible and does not cross the midline
  • Neuroblastoma – these are irregular firm masses, may cross the midline, the child is usually very unwell
  • Fecal mass – these are mobile, non-tender, indentable
  • Intussusception – child becomes acutely unwell, mass may be palpable and most often in the right quadrant.

Percussion

  • Liver – dullness delineate upper and lower border, record the span
  • Spleen – dullness delineate the lower border
  • Ascites – shifting dullness. Percuss from most resonant spot to most dull point

Auscultation

  • Not very useful in routine examination, but important in acute abdomen
  • Increased bowel sounds – intestinal obstruction, acute diarrhea
  • Reduced or absent bowel sounds – paralytic ileus, peritonitis

Genital Examination

  • Check for inguinal hernia or perineal rash
  • In males check for:
  • The size of the manhood.
  • Development of scrotum
  • Are the testes palpable? Place one hand on the inguinal area, palpate with the other hand. Record if the testes is descended, retractile or impalpable
  • Is there any scrotal swelling (it could either be hernia or hydrocele)
  • In females:
  • Examine the external genitalia, comment whether it looks normal. Does it look normal? Any evidence of fissure?

Rectal Examination

  • This is not part of routine exam
  • It is unpleasant and disliked by children
  • Its usefulness in acute abdomen (e.g. appendicitis) is debatable in children as they have a thin abdominal wall and so tenderness and masses can be identified on palpation of the abdomen
  • If intussusception is suspected, the mass maybe palpable and stools looking like redcurrant jam maybe revealed on rectal exam

CNS – Neurological screen

  • Conduct a quick neurological and development overview
  • Avoid unnecessary examination
  • Adapt it to the child’s age
  • Take into account the parent’s account of the developmental milestones
  • Watch child draw or write, assess manipulative skills, language, speech, social interactions as appropriate, vision and hearing (are they normal)

In infants

  • Assess first by observation…what does one assess?
  • Posture and movement of limbs
  • When picking child note the muscle tone. The body or limbs may feel normal or floppy or stiff. Head control maybe poor, with abnormal head lag on pulling to sitting
  • NB: Most children are neurologically intact and do not require formal neurological examination of reflexes, tone etc.
  • Detailed neurological exam is performed only if indicated

Detailed Neurological Exam

Patterns of movement

  • Observe walking or running
  • Normal walking heel – toe: a toe – heel walking suggests pyramidal tracts (cortico-spinal) dysfunction particularly hemiplegia or diplegia
  • A foot drop – suggests superficial peroneal nerve lesion
  • A tight tendo achilles as in muscular disorder
  • A broad-based gait – immature gait or secondary to cerebellar disorder
  • Standing from lying down supine – observe children from 36 months of age will turn prone in order to stand because of poor pelvic muscle fixation. But if beyond this age it suggests neuromuscular weakness (duchennes muscular dystrophy)

Coordination

  • Assess this by
  • Asking child to build one brick upon another
  • Ask child to stretch his arms out straight, close their eyes and observe for tremors or drift
  • Finger nose testing (use teddy’s nose to reach out and touch if necessary)
  • Rapid alternating movements of hands and fingers
  • Touching tip of each finger in turn with thumb
  • Ask the child to walk heel-toe, jump and hop

Inspection of Limbs

  • Muscle bulk
  • Wasting maybe secondary to cerebral palsy, meningomyelocele, or a muscle disorder or from previous poliomyelitis
  • Increased bulk of calf muscles may indicate duchennes muscular dystrophy

Muscle Tone

  • Best assessed by taking the weight of a whole limb and then bending and extending it around a single joint
  • Testing is easiest at the knee and ankle joints. Assess for the range of movement as well as the general feel of it
  • Increased tone at adductors and internal rotators of the hips, clonus at the ankles or increased tone on pronation of forearms at rest is due to pyramidal dysfunction
  • Scissors of legs in posture of limbs with pronated forearms result from increased tone

Truncal Tone

  • In pyramidal tract disorders, the trunk and head tend to arch backwards (extensor posturing)
  • In muscle disease and some central brain disorders, trunk maybe hypotonic. Child feels floppy to handle and cannot support the trunk
  • Head lag: best tested by pulling the child up by the arms from a supine position

Power

  • Difficult to test in babies
  • Watch for anti-gravity movements and note motor function
  • From 6 months onwards; watch pattern of mobility and gait
  • From age 4 years, power can be tested formally

Reflexes

  • Test with the child in a relaxed position
  • Brisk reflexes may reflect anxiety in the child or due to pyramidal disorder
  • Absent reflexes may be due to neuromuscular lesion or within spinal cord or may be due to poor technique
  • Plantar responses: equivocal. With overreaction. It’s unpopular in children as it is unpleasant

Sensation

  • You test the ability to tickle
  • Loss of sensation is likely in meningomyelocele. In this instance do a more detailed sensory testing

Cranial Nerves

  • CN 1-These can usually be tested formally from 4 years of age
  • No need to test during routine practice. Can be done by recognizing the smell of a hidden mint sweet
  • CN 2- Visual acuity: determined according to age. It refers to the clarity of vision, determine the smallest letter they can read. Direct and consensual pupillary response tested to light and accommodation
  • CN 3,4,5 – full eye movement through horizontal and vertical planes.
  • Check the presence of squint
  • Check presence of nystagmus – avoid extreme lateral gaze as it can induce nystagmus in normal children
  • CN 6 – clench teeth and waggle jaw from side to side against resistance
  • CN 7 – close eyes tight, smile and show teeth
  • CN 8 – hearing: ask parents, although unilateral deafness may be missed this way
  • CN 9 – levator palate…let them say aagh
  • CN 10 – Recurrent laryngeal nerve – listen for hoarseness or stridor
  • CN 11 – Trapezius and sternomastoid muscles are responsible for power – shrug shoulders and turn head against resistance
  • CN 12 – let them put out tongue and waggle it from side to side

Bones and Joints

  • Presentation of bone and joint disorders include
  • Limb pain, Unwillingness to use limb, Limb, joint or muscle pain
  • Joint swelling, Muscle wasting

Inspection

  • Swelling could be due to joint effusion (there will be loss of joint outline)
  • Swelling may also be due to synovial thickening (there will be redness, pain on movement)

Palpation

  • Palpate for heat, comparing both joints, tenderness, fluctuation or effusion
  • Movements – passive before active in order not to hurt the child. Explain movements in child-friendly words. If necessary show with your own limbs the movements you want to test. Record joint movement in degrees
  • Scoliosis – inspect spine especially in older children/adolescents. Ask them to stand straight as a soldier and note the shape of the spine

Neck Examination

  • Thyroid
  • Inspect for swelling, it is uncommon in childhood, occasionally at puberty
  • Palpate behind and front for swelling, nodule or thrill
  • Auscultate if enlarged
  • Look for sign of hypo/hyperthyroidism

Examination of Lymph node

  • Examine symmetrically – check the occiput, cervical, inguinal, axillary. Note the size, number and consistency of the nodes felt
  • Nodes can be small, discrete, pea-sized, mobile in the neck, groin, and axilla. This is common in normal children especially if thin
  • Nodes can be small, multiple nodes in the neck. This is common in URTI which is either viral/bacterial
  • Multiple lymph nodes of variable size in child with extensive eczema
  • Lymph nodes can be large, hot, tender sometimes fluctuant usually on the neck. This can be due to infection or abscess
  • Nodes can be of variable size and shape
  • Nodes can be caused by
  • Infections e.g. viral (infectious mononucleosis), or bacterial (TB)
  • Rare causes e.g. malignancy (usually non-tender), Kawasaki disease, cat scratch

Indications for taking a pressure

  • Critically ill child, Child with renal or cardiac disease, Diabetes mellitus, If receiving drugs such as corticosteroids causing hypertension

Technique

  • Measured by use of sphygmomanometer
  • Show child the balloon in the cuff and demonstrate how it is blown up
  • Use a cuff that fits comfortably, covering at least 2/3rds of the upper arm
  • The child must be calm, relaxed and not crying
  • Systolic pressure is easiest to determine in young children and clinically the most useful
  • Diastolic pressure is when the sounds become muffled
  • Normal: use the available charts related to age. An abnormally high reading must be repeated, with the child relaxed

Examination of the eye

  • Inspect eyes, pupil, iris, and sclera
  • Are eye movements full and symmetrical? Is nystagmus detectable? If present, may have cerebellar or ocular cause
  • Are pupils equal and central? Is there a squint?

Ophthalmoscopy

  • In infants, the red reflex is seen from a distance of 20-30cm, absence of red reflex occurs in corneal clouding, cataract or retinoblastoma

Fundoscopy

  • Is difficult to conduct, it requires experience and cooperation from the child. Mydriatics are needed in young children
  • Check for the condition of fundi of the eye
  • Retinopathy of prematurity
  • Retinopathy of congenital infections
  • Choroido-retinal haemorrhages
  • Retinal haemorrhages maybe seen in the shaken baby syndrome (non-accidental injury)
  • Exam usually left till last, as it can be unpleasant

Explain the procedure

  • Show the parent how to hold and gently restrain a younger child to ensure success and avoid possible injury

Throat

  • Look at the uvula, tonsils, pharynx, and posterior palate
  • Older children, 5 years plus will open their mouths wide open as possible to avoid spatula
  • Look for redness, swelling pus or palatal petechiae, teeth, dental caries and gross abnormality

Ear

  • Examine the ear canals and drums gently, trying not to hurt the child
  • Look for anatomical landmarks on the ear drum and for swelling, redness, perforation

, dullness, and fluid.

Topic summary

By the end of this topic you should be able to take a comprehensive pediatric history and perform general and systemic examination. A good history helps establish relevant facts, it is a source of diagnostic information

  • It helps elicit all relevant clinical findings,
  • It helps collate the findings from the history and examination. It helps formulate a working diagnosis or differential diagnosis on the basis of logical deduction
  • It helps to assemble a problem list and management
  • At the end of history and examination: Summarize the key problems (in physical, emotional, social and family terms if relevant).
  • List the diagnosis and differential diagnoses
  • Draw up a management plan to address the problem, both short and long term. This could be reassurance, a period of observation, performing investigations or therapeutic interventions
  • Provide an explanation to the parent and child, if old enough provide further written information
  • Ensure your notes are well written, dated and signed.

Deputy Chief of Party /Technical Director at Technical Advice Connect

Technical Advice Connect Limited / GTE (TA Connect) is a non-profit organization registered in 2021 and based in Nigeria to bring innovative solutions to the provision of Technical Assistance (TA) services across Africa. TA Connect was established by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) to deliver tailored and cohesive support for states in Nigeria by strengthening their PHC systems and enhancing PHC service delivery. As an innovative platform, we respond to state TA priorities to promote sustainable improvements in state Primary Healthcare (PHC) systems’ performance and increase uptake of Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health and Nutrition (RMNCAH+N) services.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP) / Technical Director

Location: Abuja
Employment Type: Full-time

Scope of Work

  • The scope of work (SOW) sets forth the services to be provided by the Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP)/Technical Director, to Technical Advice Connect LTD/GTE (TAConnect), a non-profit organization registered and based in Nigeria to bring innovative solutions to the provision of Technical Assistance (TA) services to states in Nigeria.

Job Description

  • The Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP) / Technical Director will be responsible for overseeing management and technical operations while implementing the anticipated USAID-funded Strengthening Quality of Care through Primary Health Care Activity in Nigeria.
  • The position oversees the program’s collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) process in collaboration with the COP.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

  • Work closely with the Chief of Party on setting project priorities and provide technical leadership and strategic direction for the project’s technical assistance efforts, ensuring the integration, quality, and sustainability of interventions.
  • Provide day-to-day technical oversight for design, planning, and implementation of work planning and ensure that project activities are meeting program outcomes.
  • Ensure the Project’s deliverables across the Technical/Program, aligned with the client’s expectations and the organization’s policies.
  • Expand partnerships with the private sector to increase engagement around the project and coordinate the harmonization of project approaches across technical and geographical areas.
  • Provide technical leadership for the development of the project strategic plan, work plan, and project monitoring, in close collaboration with MOH, USAID, and other stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with all local stakeholders and implementing partners, especially the Ministry of Health and other implementing partners, to ensure that all activities conform to requirements and regulations.
  • Ensure that the program’s CLA approach is applied with consistency and rigor; Work with the leadership team to apply program learnings in pursuit of adaptive management.

Qualifications For The Job

  • Education: Master’s Degree in Public Health, Medicine Epidemiology, or a related field
  • Experience: Minimum of 10 years experience in public health, with at least 3 years as a senior management staff in a large public health program, with extensive experience managing similar projects. In-depth technical knowledge and experience in all components of the health systems strengthening programming, with particular focus on the quality of care (clinical guidelines, standards of care, effective interventions, measures of quality of care, relevant research and capacity-building), CSS including cross-cutting areas such as gender, Do No Harm and DEIA.
  • Progressive experience in health system strengthening programming including in design, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of activities of similar size and complexity in Nigeria or a similar setting.
  • Demonstrated supervisory skills; and ability to work well within a team.
  • Leadership qualities with excellent interpersonal and organizational qualities.

Deadline For Application

22nd May, 2024 at 11:59 PM Nigerian Time.

How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should send their Application updated resume and a cover letter detailing their relevant experience to: hr@taconnect-ng.org using “Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP) / Technical Director – USAID STRENGTHENING QUALITY OF CARE THROUGH PRIMARY HEALTH CARE” as the subjectt of the mail.

Note

  • Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis; therefore, early submission is advised
  • Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

What Nurses Should Know About The Parts and Functions of the Human Body

Parts and Functions of the Human Body

  • Describe the skin of the human body
  • Discuss glands of the skin
  • Explain the structure and function of hair
  • Discuss about nails

What you should note

  • Dermis
  • Epidermis
  • Eponychium
  • Hypodermis
  • Hyponychium
  • Lunula
  • Sebaceous glands
  • Sudoriferous glands

The integumentary system consists of the skin and its derivatives. These include hair, nails, and several types of glands.

The system functions in protection, in the regulation of body temperature, in the excretion of waste materials, in the synthesis of vitamin D3 with the help of sunrays, and in the reception of various stimuli perceived as pain, pressure, and temperature.

The Skin

Skin is the largest organ in the human body, occupying almost 2m² of surface area and with a thickness of 2mm. The human skin has 3 main parts which include the epidermis, dermis, and hypodermis.

  • Epidermis: This is the outer layer of the skin, and the outer layer of the skin is made of stratified squamous epithelium. It lacks fluid supply and contains basically 4-5 strata: stratum corneum, lucidum, granulosum, spinosum, and basal.
  • Stratum corneum: the outer, dead, flat, keratinized, and thicker layer.
  • Stratum lucidum: consists of flat, translucent layers of cells, found only in thick skin.
  • Stratum granulosum: cells in this layer are in the process of keratinization.
  • Stratum spinosum: cells in this stratum have a polyhedral shape and are in the process of protein synthesis.
  • Stratum basale: the last layer of the epidermis, resting on the basement membrane. Together with the stratum spinosum, it constitutes the stratum germinativum.
  • Dermis: A strong, flexible, connective tissue meshwork of collagen, reticular, and elastic fibers. Most of the skin is composed of the dermis, containing papillary and reticular layers.
  • Papillary layer: next to the stratum basale of the epidermis, containing loose connective tissue with bundles of collagenous fibers. It also contains loose capillaries that nourish the epidermis and special nerve endings that serve as touch receptors (Meissner’s corpuscles).
  • Reticular layer: made of dense connective tissue with coarse collagenous fiber bundles forming a stroma of elastic network. It contains fluid and lymphatic vessels, nerves, fat cells, sebaceous (oil) glands, and hair roots.
  • Hypodermis: Found beneath the dermis, it is a subcutaneous layer composed of loose, fibrous connective tissue, richly supplied with lymphatic and fluid vessels and nerves. It is thicker than the dermis and contains coils of ducts of sudoriferous (sweat) glands and the base of hair follicles.

Functions of Skin

  1. Protection: against harmful microorganisms, foreign material, and excessive loss of body fluids.
  2. Temperature regulation: with sweat, heat leaves the body.
  3. Excretion: small amounts of waste products such as urea.
  4. Synthesis: by the action of UV. Vitamin D is synthesized in the skin, necessary for absorbing calcium from the intestine.
  5. Sensory reception: contains sensory receptors for heat, cold, touch, pressure, and pain.

Color of the Skin

Skin’s color is determined by three factors:

  1. The presence of melanin, a dark pigment produced by specialized cells called melanocytes.
  2. The accumulation of the yellow pigment carotene.
  3. The color of fluid reflected through the epidermis.
  • The main function of melanin is to screen out excessive ultraviolet rays.
  • All races have some melanin in their skins, although darker races have slightly more melanocytes. A person genetically unable to produce any melanin is an albino.

Glands of the Skin

The glands of the skin are the sudoriferous and sebaceous glands.

Sudoriferous (Sweat) Glands

Types: Eccrine and Apocrine glands.

  • Eccrine glands: small, simple coiled tubular glands distributed over nearly the entire body, absent over nail beds, margins of lips of vulva, tips of the penis. Eccrine glands are numerous over the palms and soles. They secrete a colorless, aqueous fluid containing neutral fats, albumin, urea, lactic acid, and sodium chloride, helping to regulate body temperature.
  • Apocrine glands: odiferous, found at the armpits, in the dark region around nipples, the outer lips of the vulva, and the anal and genital regions. They are larger and deeper than eccrine sweat glands and become active at puberty. Responding to stress, including sexual activity, they secrete a thicker sweat. The female breasts are apocrine glands that have become adapted to secret and release milk instead of sweat.

Sebaceous (Oil) Glands

Simple branched alveolar glands found in the dermis, sebaceous glands secrete oily substance called sebum. Sebum functions as a permeability barrier, skin softener, and protective agent against bacteria and fungi. Sebaceous glands are connected to hair follicles and are found all over the body except in the palms and soles.

Hair

Hair is composed of keratinized threads of cells, developing from the epidermis. It covers the entire body except the palms, soles, lips, tip of the penis, inner lips of the vulva, and nipples.

Function of Hair

  • Insulation against cold in the scalp.
  • Protection against glare in eyebrows.
  • Screening against foreign particles (eyelashes).
  • Trapping dust particles in the inhaled air in the nostrils.
  • Protecting openings from foreign particles.

Structure of Hair

Hair has two parts: the shaft (above the skin) and the root (embedded in the skin). It consists of epithelial cells arranged in three layers: medulla, cortex, and cuticle.

Nails

Nails, like hair, are modifications of the epidermis, made of hard keratin. Composed of flat, cornified plates on the dorsal surface of the distal segment of the fingers and toes, nails have a body and a root. The thicker layer of skin beneath the nail root is the matrix, where new cells are generated. Nails grow 0.5mm a week. Our nails protect our fingers and toes, and they allow picking up and grasping objects as well as scratching.

Health Informatics Officer at Health Systems Consult Limited (HSCL)

Health Systems Consult Limited (HSCL) is a public health and development consulting firm established by a team with extensive experience in international development and public health programming. We provide technical assistance for health system reforms towards access to cost-effective and quality health care across Nigeria and the continent of Africa. With a network of over 50 global partners and consultants, we develop programmes and provide sustainable solutions for a broad spectrum of health and development challenges.

HSCL is registered with the Nigerian Corporate Affairs Commission (2009), the Tanzanian Registry of Companies (2014), the Office of Administration and registration in Sierra Leone (2015) and the Office of the Registration of Companies in Zambia (2016). HSCL has established offices in Nigeria, Tanzania and Sierra Leone and has also done work in several African countries including Cameroun, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Mauritius, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, and Zanzibar. In Nigeria, HSCL with it’s headquarters in Abuja, has offices in Abia, Akwa-Ibom, Borno, FCT, Kaduna, Kebbi, Lagos, Niger, Sokoto and Zamfara States.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Health Informatics Officer

Location: Sokoto
Type: Full-time / Non-exempt
Division / Department:Technical
Reporting: Associate Director MEL / State Team Lead

Job Summary

  • The Health Informatics Officer will be a highly skilled full-stack software developer with experience in building web applications using Java/PHP who will be responsible for analyzing program requirements and business objectives, determining application features, functionalities, recommending and implementing changes to existing Java/PHP-based applications, among other duties.

Key Responsibilities

  • The position holder will be engaged to ensure the optimization and full functionality of all supported databases (LAMISplus inclusive) across all ACE3 supported facilities while also coordinating all Health Informatics related activities in the State.
  • S/He will provide technical assistance for the design and content development for electronic information systems (LAMIS, DHIS, GIS and any other ACE3 package) used for M&E operations.
  • This function will include assisting the software programming team in developing actual logic statements for the coding of M&E indicators and software business rules where necessary and checking that all software development is done according to already established standards and procedures.
  • Assist the software programming team in developing actual logic statements for the coding of M&E indicators and software business rules where necessary and checking that all software development is done according to already established standards and procedures..

Education

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, or other relevant field with 2 – 4 years’ experience in software development, DHIS 2 configuration. Deployment skills will be an added advantage.
  • MBBS / MPH / MSc or similar Degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, General Statistics or Biostatistics, Health Informatics and/or Management or M&E with 1 to 2 years relevant experience in project-level or state/national-level monitoring and evaluation system implementation.
  • Familiarity with Nigerian public sector health systems and NGOs and CBOs is highly desirable.

Desired Competencies:

  • Knowledge of health data systems: The HI Officer should know how to analyse, design, evaluate, test, and maintain health data systems. S/he needs to learn and help optimize new systems as technology evolves.
  • Programming knowledge: The HI Officer must have programming knowledge in various computer languages. For example, Java, Python, C, SQL, and other languages are useful for creating and managing databases.
  • Data analytics skills: The HI Officer will lead the creation of global and regional dashboards and overall data visualization efforts with a DHIS2 consultant. The HI Officer will be responsible for developing and maintaining regular efforts of creating charts, graphs, and presentations to inform managers and practitioners of data-driven results and trends.  The HI Officer with some data analytics skills in Excel or Power BI, critical in visualizing data.
  • Independent problem-solving: The HI Officer will collaborate with technical/programmatic staff and deal with big data at the state level. The HI Officer must possess problem-solving skills, tackling unexpected challenges, from data security to maintaining systems and supporting regional and local staff.
  • Proven experience in stakeholder management including the ability to engage in technical and policy discussions with representatives of government and other development partners.
  • In-depth knowledge of the Nigerian healthcare system and key health system actors.
  • Demonstrable strong oral and written communication skills.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and one or more of the following statistical software: SPSS, Stata, SAS and/or R.
  • Excellent time management skills and outstanding work ethic.
  • Excellent organization and interpersonal skills.
  • Consistently approach work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude.
  • Demonstrate openness to change and an ability to manage complexities in a fast-paced environment.

Application Closing Date
21st May, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Cover Letter (no more than a page) and an updated CV in one document to: recruitment@hscgroup.org using the Job Title as the subject of the email.

EMR Consultant at AIDS Healthcare Foundation

Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF),a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization, is a global organization providing cutting-edge medicine and advocacy to over 350,000 patients in 36 countries. We are the largest provider of HIV/AIDS medical care in the U.S. A truly independent voice in our mission to rid the world of AIDS, AHF’s operating capital comes from our own self-created social enterprises. AHF Pharmacies, thrift stores, healthcare contracts and other strategic partnerships generate funding that helps AHF provide medical and advocacy services across the globe. Generating and defining new, innovative ways of treatment, prevention and advocacy is the hallmark of our success. We are currently leading a mass testing initiative to identify and treat the 25 million people who don’t know they are infected. By advocating big goals – aiming to see an unprecedented 1 billion people tested each year – AHF hopes to eliminate older, more time-consuming methods. Since 1987, AHF has cared for thousands of people living with HIV and AIDS worldwide. As we create and implement unparalleled programs in new communities in the U.S. and abroad, we expand the delivery of healthcare and influence over policy with the sole aim of saving more lives. –

  • Job Type: Contract
  • Qualification: BA/BSc/HND
  • Experience: 6 years
  • Location: Abuja
  • Job Field: Consultancy 

Objectives

  • This consultancy is aimed at studying, understanding, and modifying the current AHF EMR to a Monitoring & Evaluation platform or Software Tool for data management to our Service Providers in our clinics (health facilities).
  • To fix all current issues in AHF EMR to meet user requirements and modify / upgrade / improve the AHF-EMR to also have an offline version that can easily synchronize to the online server / storage when internet connectivity is provided (see deliverable section on the expected features)
  • The system should provide high level performance and reliability for Real-Time Reporting on all AHF-Nigeria M&E operations, through data collection, verification, and validation. The software should be electronically capable of collecting and reporting data and any other relevant data for the purpose of monitoring and tracking the impact and effectiveness of AHF operations at the State level across the country.
  • To establish a system that has the capacity to inter-operate / integrate / interface with the National Data Repository, ORI, Track Positives.

Vendor / Consultant Responsibilities.

  • Study, analyse and understand the current AHF EMR and the M&E needs.
  • Create a local test server / environment using the current EMR using the source code provided by AHF.
  • Add all pending and new deliverables as shared by AHF (see roman (i) and (ii) below)
  • Add any other key functional and non-functional requirements required for an effective, efficient, reliable, available, and secured EMR.
  • the system should be dynamic to allow our other programs benefit from it i.e., Not country specific.
  • Execution should be based on all corporate guidelines and AHF requirements.
  • Periodic reports detailing the delivery of each milestone as is stipulated in the Terms of Reference (TOR).
  • Ensure a seamless interoperability between AHF EMR and the National Data Repository for the Country.
  • Build capacity of AHF staff to manage of do some trouble shooting when needed.

AHF Responsibilities

  • Orientate the developer / programmer on the current EMR system that require modifications.
  • Provide all expected clarifications as given in the scope of work.
  • Provide a platform for the EMR Hosting after full testing of the system functionalities.
  • Provide source code for the current AHF EMR System.

AHF EMR DELIVERABLES

Ongoing/Pending deliverables.

  • EMR should be able to work offline when there is no Internet network.
  • Pharmacy Prescribe should be able to save all drugs dispensed once instead of multiple savings.
  • Add the date of the last viral load on the patient dashboard.
  • ART regimen and next appointment date are not correctly updated on the patient information dashboard for some clients. Need to check for all other patients.
  • Add date the drug dispensed on pharmacy prescription dashboard for each visit.
  • Ensure that age is not static. It must change as the client grows older. It should be linked with the calendar.
  • Rearranging indicators on Excel reports in a particular order. (See attachment Excel workbook sheet 1 for the order.)
  • When generating a report, only the most recent ARV regimen should show on the column for recent drugs in the Excel report.
  • Add date of last CD4 on the patient dashboard.
  • Pending pharmacy prescription, Pharmacy inventory, and Pharmacy Inventory master not working.
  • Create restriction to access the AHF EMR modules based on the roles and responsibilities of staff.

New deliverables

  • EMR should indicate 3 colour codes for the patient’s viral load results on the patient dashboard (20 and below should show green, above 20 but less than 1000 should show yellow while equal to or greater than 1000 should show red)
  • EMR should indicate with a colour code brown for patients with Most recent CD4 less than 200.
  • EMR should indicate the due date of patient’s viral load on the patient dashboard by flagging on the dashboard.
  • Batch Upload into the EMR for Viral load result using Excel sheet.
  • Add TB-LAM and CrAg to EMR laboratory module (add to the list lab test in lab request, sample collection, result entry, and view lab result)
  • Add a field to input blood pressure data on the EMR (located in the triage section of the EMR).
  • EMR should indicate in the report section the patient’s DSD status, TPT status, and Cervical cancer screening status. This data should be the most recent.
  • The system should flag or indicate patients who are about to be lost to follow-up or already Lost to follow up (Lost to follow-up is when a patient has missed an appointment for 3 months after the appointment date).
  • The system should also flag or indicate patients who are dead or transferred out. And provide a drop down for the causes of death.
  • EMR should have an appointment/tracking module that will track and generate data for missed appointments, lost to follow-up, transfer out, and death. (See attachment Excel workbook sheet 2 for the format).
  • Measure time in motion and client satisfaction survey
  • Health worker productivity reports e.g., cadre, function, departments, duties undertaken / performed etc.
  • Ensure that all information on the patient information dashboard shows correctly.
  • Add details of occupation “other” not specified to Excel report.
  • Add Viral Load Sample collection date to Excel report.
  • Add TBLam result to Excel report.
  • Add DNA PCR result to Excel report.
  • Add CrAg result to Excel report.
  • Add GeneXpert result to Excel report.
  • Add type of family planning to Excel report.
  • Develop an extraction plug to upload data into the NDR and ensure a seamless interoperability between AHF EMR and the NDR.

Future Plans

  • In addition to the Excel report generation, EMR should generate reports in XML format.  See the format attached in the mail.
  • EMR should be able to take the fingerprint of clients which will also appear in the XML report as stated above.

Implementation strategy for data collection, verification, validation, and processing requirements that will guarantee the most intuitive search experience and quick reporting from the Clinics level in AHF Nigeria.

System / EMR Administration Module

The module should be used to manage the entire EMR by including the following features: –

  • User Management, Roles, and roles assignment
  • General systems settings, access controls, audit trails
  • EMR configurations, States, sites, departments, Units of Measures, Email logs etc
  • Workflow management in all departments/clinics
  • Tracking module / Audit trails

Reports

The EMR generates reports as required by the end users in all departments.

General Requirements

The Consultant is expected to do the following in addition to the specific AHF deliverables: –

  1. Provide a detailed report/documentation detailing the features, modules, and functions of the EMR software platform.
  2. Ensure the software platform serves as an electronic back-up to the present manual method of data collection, processing, analysis, and reporting. Make recommendations for backup / restore plan.
  3. Remotely assessing the Clinic address through google map/earth search thereby authenticating the integrity of the Clinic existence and data.
  4. Assess the current AHF manual and automated data collection structure, verification, and validation for ease of accessibility, quality of results, user-friendliness, ease of maintenance/update, information retrieval, etc.
  5. Monitor software platform traffic and provide periodic reports.
  6. Provide other suitable add-ons such as notification and messenger and fingerprint.
  7. Assure security and confidentiality of all the resources / content that goes to the software platform and provide storage of all digital assets from AHF including photos, fingerprint, and multimedia content amongst others etc.
  8. Make recommendations for software, hardware, and other back-end requirements needed for software platform physical infrastructure to run it, such as computer servers, online data storage subscription and portal setup with Internet link.
  9. Training of AHF NIGERIA staff based on the platform and Clinic Officers, Server Administrators, State System Administrator, Super Users and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), etc. on the platform maintenance, content update, and online media monitoring.

Delivery Terms

Duration

The assignment is urgent, and the vendor need to clarify the time (duration) required to deliver on the consultation.

Proposal / Quote Submission

Interested and qualified consultants are invited to submit their proposal(s) comprising of the following: –

  • An understanding of the consultancy requirements
  • Methodology and work-plan for performing the assignment.
  • Project delivery plan
  • Team composition and tasks assignment
  • Detailed reference list indicating the scope and magnitude of similar assignments.
  • Relevant services undertaken in the past three (3) years.
  • Registration and other relevant statutory documents
  • Warranty / support and maintenance period after the implementation

Additional Requirements will be communicated at the later stages of the contract negotiations

How to apply

Interested candidates should submit their application to the following email address globalhr.africa@aidshealth.org.

AIDS Healthcare Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at Green Concern for Development.

Green Concern for Development (GREENCODE) is a registered Nigeria NGO (non-profit) organisation working on social justice and humanitarian response in both the southern and northern regions of Nigeria. GREENCOE is one of the outstanding and credible national NGO in Nigeria working on both development and humanitarian response programmes. Recently accredited by OCHA for applying for funding on the GSM and MYHRP- Project Model.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Location: Borno
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

  • Green Concern for Development (GREENCODE) in partnership with Blindenmission International (CBM) Is implementing FSL/WASH/GBV/MHPSS programming in order to strengthen resilience within conflict affected communities in Borno State
  • In view of this, the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer under the supervision of the National Coordinator, shall be responsible for the overall collection, summarizing, compiling, dissemination, storing and timely reporting of all forms data generated from the Project components with key focus on submission of timely, qualitative and quantitative reports to the Program Management Team, donors and relevant stakeholders.

Major Responsibilities

Monitoring Evaluation Accountability & Learning:

  • Track the project performances against project indicators
  • Create and manage databases to ensure the traceability of the project beneficiaries and assistance provided
  • Conduct a baseline/end line survey at the start and end of the project.
  • Lead in beneficiary identification, selection and registration.
  • Regularly conduct on-site monitoring and post-distribution surveys
  • Carryout rapid need (including market) assessments for the project activity
  • Regularly collect and analyze market price data
  • Review, clean and analyze all project data, including but not limited to: beneficiary registration, baseline study, onsite monitoring, post-activity monitoring, price data, and final evaluation.
  • Work with project officers for data collection for GREENCODE implementing projects
  • Provide feedback to the National Coordinator and project team on project strategies and activities;
  • Assist in coordinating across the available components of the Project to ensure effective implementation of M&E/MIS;
  • Assist the project personnel with M&E tools and supporting them in their use.
  • Preparation of monthly report
  • And performed any other task as assigned.

Position Requirements

  • Have a Degree/HND in Social Science, Art, Humanity, or related field with minimum of 1year experience in a project management, stakeholders’ relations and administration-related role.
  • Have excellent computer skills including with Excel, Microsoft office.
  • Have strong interpersonal skills (communication, give effective feedback and be a team player)
  • Be able to manage stress effectively, juggle competing priorities, balance various programmatic, logistics and team needs.
  • Have the ability to manage work plans including ability to work under pressure.
  • Be committed to the NGO’s mission, values and policies.
  • At least 3 years experience in Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning, preferably in the NGO or INNGO sector
  • Thorough technical knowledge and experience in MEAL.

Application Closing Date

13th May, 2024.

Note

  • Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
  • The position is valid for the duration stated, we don’t pay relocation allowance or provide house for field staff. Only applicant that adhere to the full instruction in this advert will be attended to.
  • Applicants must be resident in Maiduguri or its environs and ready to travel to field locations.
  • Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis.
  • Equal opportunities are given to all applicants.

How to apply

Interested and qualified candidates should apply by sending their Application and requesting for competency form, fill and submit the competency form to the following e-mail address: jobs@greencodeng.organd copy:greencodedata@gmail.com using the Job Title as the subject of the email.

Grants Manager – Nigeria at the Alliance for International Medical Action

About Alliance for International Medical Action

The Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA) is an independent humanitarian medical NGO that was created in 2009 by professionals of humanitarian medicine. ALIMA’s mission is to provide medical care in emergency situations or medical catastrophes.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Grants Manager – Nigeria

Location: Abuja
Hierarchical Manager:
Nigeria Head of Mission
Functional Manager :
Regional Grants Coordinator – Desk 3
Contract Term:
CDD under French law
Contract lenght
: 6 months
Position to be filled :
ASAP

Protection of Beneficiaries and Members of the Community

  • Level 3: As part of his or her duties, the incumbent will be required to visit programs and be in contact with children and/or vulnerable adults.
  • Therefore, a criminal record check or presentation of a certificate of good character will be required.
  • In situations where it is not possible to provide a criminal record or a certificate of good morals and morals, a sworn statement will be requested.

Mission

  • Under the supervision of the Head of Mission, the Grants Manager is responsible for implementing the funding strategy in line with ALIMA’s country action plan.
  • More specifically, they are responsible for mobilizing funding that will allow the implementation of projects.
  • They maintain regular relations with donors, and conduct an active search for funding.
  • They are the guarantor of the drafting of project proposals and reports to donors. They support the monitoring of contractual donor indicators, in collaboration with the Project Coordinators and the Medical Coordinator.

Tasks and Responsibilities
Definition and Monitoring of the Country Development Strategy:

  • The Grants Manager carries out an analysis of donor strategy and the availability of funding for the country concerned, in order to maintain a high level of information and understanding of the issues.
  • They identify funding needs for the mission in collaboration with the coordination team and propose a relevant funding strategy for the mission.
  • They assess the issues and propose the adaptation of the strategy according to the operational action plan of the country. During the mission, the Grants Manager monitors the financing strategy and adapts it according to changing needs.
  • In conjunction with the Head of Mission and the Regional Grants Coordinator at headquarters, they support the design and implementation of a strategy for acquiring grants and mobilizing resources

Maintenance of the relationship with donors:

  • In conjunction with the Head of Mission, they ensure representation with donors and negotiate funding for ALIMA projects.
  • They maintain relations with the donors who finance the projects to ensure regular quality communication.
  • They coordinate the visit of donors to projects when the security situation allows it, with the support of the Head of Mission.

Business Development & Grants Prospection:

  • The Grants Manager, in support of the Head of Mission, conducts an active search for funding and identifies new donors to approach in order to ensure good knowledge of ALIMA and the projects implemented by its staff.
  • They actively monitor the thematic priorities of donors and funding mechanisms in the country.
  • They carry out donor mapping and intelligence gathering, and regularly informs the country coordination on this subject.
  • They develop project presentations and brochures to ensure institutional communication throughout the year

Supports to operational planning in line with donor and funding priorities:

  • The Grants Manager supports the Project Coordinators and the coordination team in the design of interventions in line with the donors’ strategy.
  • They ensure that the interventions are aligned with the thematic and operational priorities of the donors, and that the submissions respect the formats required by the latter.

Production of concepts notes and project proposals:

  • In order to obtain funding, the Grants Manager is responsible for submitting concept notes and project proposals within the deadlines imposed by the donors. They ensure the writing of project documents to respond to opportunities with donors.
  • They guarantee the quality and conformity of the documents produced.

Disseminates key information on donor procedures, funding contracts and supports Project Coordinators in monitoring contractual requirements:

  • The Grants Manager is responsible for updating the coordination team on donor guidelines. They continually inform the teams of the evolution of donor procedures and requirements.
  • In addition, the Grants Manager supports the Project Coordinators in monitoring the contractual requirements of donors.
  • The Grants Manager monitors operational developments, including budgetary, in order to propose contractual modifications if necessary.

Data tracking to meet reporting requirements:

  • The Grants Manager develops and incorporates solid elements of monitoring and follow-up in the reports in the project monitoring tools and therefore participates, with the Data Manager and the Medical Coordinator, in the control and compilation of operational data.
  • They ensure the updating of data monitoring tools in connection with financing contracts, and anticipate the deadlines of reports in order to ensure the completeness of the data and a quality analysis.

Ensures the production of accurate and analytical narrative reports within the defined deadlines:

  • The Grants Manager is responsible for preparing interim and final reports for donors, according to the reporting formats and rules imposed.
  • They are directly responsible for drafting documents, based on precise, quantitative and qualitative information and capitalized on during the year.
  • They establish regular liaison with the coordinators and project managers and, for the preparation of reports, make the link between the commitments with the donor and the reality of the projects and the land. They ensure compliance with deadlines and are responsible for the quality of reports.

Ensures the contractual management of financing contracts:

  • The Grants Manager is responsible for monitoring financing contracts with donors.
  • They are in direct contact with the national representatives of the lessor for contractual management issues.
  • They make sure to know and respect the procedures of the lessor and that these are known to the rest of the team. For this, they have a common contract monitoring tool that they help update.

Ensures the application of standards in the prevention of abuse:

  • The Donor Relations Manager must participate in training and awareness sessions.
  • They apply the standards relating to the prevention of abuse in all the tasks they undertake (ex: adding the thematic in reports, project proposals, clause on the prevention of abuse, etc).
  • They contribute to creating and maintaining a fulfilling and protective environment.

Experience and Skills

  • You have a Medical Diploma in Health, Master’s Degree in Public Health or Epidemiology related to the position (development studies, public health, international relations, project management, etc.).
  • You have Professional experience in reporting, design and/or project management of at least one year, as well as field experience and Good command of project management tools (project cycle, logical framework, project proposal, reporting, etc.).
  • You have Autonomy, capacity for initiative, ability to work in a team and to communicate

Language:

  • A strong command of both spoken and written English is essential for this position

Conditions

  • Contract Term : CDD under French law
  • Contract lenght : 6 months
  • Position to be filled : ASAP
  • Based in Abuja (With occasional field visits)
  • Salary : According to ALIMA salary scale (level 10) + valuation of experience + Perdiem

ALIMA pays for:

  • Travel costs between the expatriate’s country of origin and the mission location
  • Accommodation costs
  • Medical cover from the first day of the contract to a month after the date of departure from the mission country for the employee and his/her family
  • Evacuation of the employee

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Note

  • To apply, please send your CV and Cover Letter online.
  • Applications are processed in the order of arrival.
  • ALIMA reserves the right to close the offer before the term initially indicated if an application is accepted. Only complete applications (CV + Letter of Motivation in PDF format) will be considered.
  • Female candidates are strongly encouraged.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:

Click here to apply

Which One To Consider Between School Of Nursing VS Nursing In Universities

Meaning Of RN, RM, BSN (Bsc. Nursing)

Students often ask which one they should go for between BSc nursing through a university degree and registered nurse – through a school or college of nursing (SON).

Let’s explain it in terms of opportunities in the future.

School or College of Nursing and Midwifery
In Nigeria, if anyone goes into the school of nursing and midwifery, the person’s future can be predicted as:

You Obtain a Teaching Hospital Admission form

  1. School of Nursing is run by a university teaching hospital (TH) except private. Such teaching hospitals will sell admission forms usually every year to admit a new set of students for the new academic session which is always at the beginning of each year.
  2. After purchasing the form, the students are admitted through entrance exams, physical interviews, and medical tests. This is based on the people who passed both the entrance exams and interviews.
  3. The next thing the student does is to remain a nurse student for the next three academic sessions which are majorly practicals centered and oriented period.
  4. After the completion of the student nursing course and passing external exams known as Hospital Final, the student is awarded a registered nurse (RN) title.
  5. The student nurse who has acquired an RN together with a license can begin to practice as a registered nurse.

15 List of Schools/Colleges of Nursing in Nigeria

  1. University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital School of Nursing
  2. Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja School of Nursing
  3. Kaduna State College of Nursing
  4. Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital School of Nursing
  5. Oyo State College of Nursing, Eleyele Ibadan
  6. Ogun State School of Nursing and Midwifery
  7. University of Benin Teaching Hospital School of Nursing
  8. Benue State School of Nursing
  9. University of Ibadan Teaching Hospital School of Nursing
  10. Ahmadu Bello University teaching Hospital School of Nursing
  11. Kastina State School of Nursing and Midwifery
  12. Adamawa State College of Nursing and Midwifery
  13. University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital
  14. Imo State College of Nursing
  15. Abia State School of Nursing

Let’s quickly delve into University or School of Midwifery
Unfortunately, the RN is not equivalent to BSc Nursing or Degree Nursing. This is the reason why many consider university instead of RN, especially when they are not contented with it. Although, they can use the certificate to work as a staff nurse in any hospital and health center. Therefore:

  1. If you choose to proceed to university after acquiring an RN, you will have to obtain the JAMB Direct Entry form which is necessary, and choose a university of your interest.
  2. If the school offers you admission, that means, you will be admitted to a 200 or 300-level Degree in Nursing; depending on the school policies.
  3. You will spend another 4 or 3 years to complete a BSc. Nursing or Degree in Nursing; after which you’ll be awarded a Registered Midwifery and BSc Nursing or BSN.

Changing From RN to Midwifery (RM)

  1. Another stage after RN at a School of Nursing is called a School of Midwifery. This is administered usually by the same teaching hospital.
  2. If the student prefers this instead of obtaining a JAMB DE form, the student may need to spend another 1 or 2 years after RN for your midwifery course. Then the student will have two certificates altogether – RN and (Registered Midwifery) RM.
  3. The student can also first obtain her Registered Midwifery Certificate, and then apply for Post-Basic Nursing in Schools of Nursing.

Studying Nursing at University Instead Of School Of Nursing

If you must choose a university to study Nursing instead of the School of Nursing/ Midwifery, Below is what your journey will look like:

Obtain Your JAMB Form

  1. The student will have to register for UTME for the admission year, like a Jambite (any other candidate seeking admission) into other courses in different Schools.
  2. The student must score the required mark of his/her proposed school – usually 200 and above, the student then obtains a post-UTME form and takes their post-UTME test where required. Schools like OAU, UI, UNILAG, UNN, BAYERO, ABSU, ABU, IMSU, UNIBEN, UNIZIK, etc conduct post-UTME tests while schools like UNIOSUN, KWASU, etc do not.
  3. If the student eventually gets admitted, the student will be studying the course for 5 years after which the student will be awarded three certificates – RN, RM, and (Bachelor of Nursing) BSN.

Career/Jobs For RNs and BNSCs

Whatever your fate, either with a BSc in Nursing or a School of Nursing/Midwifery
Your academic journey will surely come to an end. Finally, you’ll be done with your nursing degree or midwifery. Then here is the picture of your predicted future. The next is to face the labor market or start work.

It’s now a known fact that has shown that graduates of universities are senior officers above those who completed RN only – or plus RM.

This is to say, that if we have a staff with RN and RM who have been working for a couple of years say ten years or more, she will eventually be a subordinate or junior colleague to a new staff with BSc nursing.

Did I hear you scream? This is how it has always been over the years.

Now, this question is, which would you want to go for?