Objective 1: Provide Treatment services for acute malnourish Under 5 children and PLW.
- Perform screening & promotion to all U5 children who are visiting RRT services.
- Perform Growth monitoring to all U2 Children who are visiting RRT services.
- Classification of all U5 children in categories of well-nourished and Acute Malnutrition (SAM & MAM).
- Admit all acute malnourished children in OPD SAM/MAM programs.
- Provide nutritional treatment to admitted malnourished children according to approved 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 test for each admitted patient during admission time and decide for provision of treatment services or refer to higher treatment service.
- Perform anthropometric measurement during follow up visit.
- Ensure nutritional follow up of the beneficiaries.
- Prescribe routine medication to admitted patient during admission time according to approved treatment protocol.
- Identify those beneficiaries who do not respond to the treatment and manage their follow up.
- Check vaccinations of patients and refer to appropriate health facilities when required.
- Refer severe acutely malnourished beneficiaries with medical complications to higher health centers (IPD – SAM or Pediatric ward) for advance 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 educations 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’s tools (registration book and card for each beneficiary and etc..)
- Provide health and nutrition educations to the caregivers on breastfeeding, complementary feeding, and hygiene, care of pregnant and lactating women, prevention of illness.
Objective 2: Provide treatment and counselling services on IMNCI to under 5 children as assigned by line manager
- Diagnostic and treatment services should be performed based on the validated guidelines.
- Conduct history taking and perform physical examination of sick children.
- Assess the different signs and symptoms for patient diagnosis
- Prescribe the appropriate medication for the patient.
- Determine if this is an initial or follow up visit for this problem.
- Counsel the caretaker and provide them a necessary messages especially on usage of medicine.
- Facilitate the referral for complicated patients with official document for advance treatment to higher health centers.
- Record all necessary information in the existing reporting tools.
Objective 3: Infant Young Child Feeding (IYCF) counselling:
- Promote breastfeeding skills through spreading of relevant 1000 days of life messages to mothers and caretakers.
- Provide Key IYCF messaged to the mothers and caretakers duding performing of GMP to under 2 years children.
- Organize group sessions on basic/key messages on 1000 days of life to caretakers who are visiting RRT.
- Refer patients to proper services based on needs (having complication).
- Support the conduction of nutrition and health education sessions to clients who are searching RRT services.
- Record all the necessary information on the existing reporting’s tools.
Objective 4: Prepare all the material /Reporting tools and documentation
- Before leaving the office ensure all the material is ready and active (relevant equipment’s, registers, nutritional supplies, medicines…).
- Keep all items in the field very well and after the field visit, clean and prepare the using in coming day.
- Update all reporting tools on daily basis.
- 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 on performing other duties assigned by the organization.
