SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH.
i. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH TECHNICIAN.
Job Summary
Public Health Technician is a serial cadre salaried member of the health team for Primary Health Care. He/she is employed by the formal Health System and is expected to spend 70% of his/her working time in the community and 30% in the clinic. He/she is supervised by a Community Health Officer.
Job Title: Health Technician
Location of the Job: LGA, PHC Department/Community.
Personal Qualification: He/she must be
i. Healthy
ii. Able to communicate and work well with people in the community.
iii. Able to guide, supervise and give good leadership to Volunteer Village Health Workers/Traditional Birth Attendants
iv. Be willing to live and work in the community.
v. Mature, approachable, friendly and honest.
vi. Knowledgeable and skilful.
vii. Have initiative and tolerance.
viii. Punctual to duty
ix. Portray the ethnic and etiquette of Health practices.
ENTRY QUALIFICATION
1. Academically qualified Health Assistant who has been on the grade for a minimum of 2 years.
2. A candidate who possesses five (5) passes in English, Mathematics, Biology or Health Science, and any other two (2) subjects in WAEC or NECO at not more than two (2) sittings.
3. Nomination and support by the LGSs/other organizations.
Duration of the course: 2 academic sessions (4 semesters)
Certificate awarded: Diploma for Health Technician.
Summary of functions
Carry out 70% of his/her Primary Health Care functions in the community and 30% at the clinic.
Community-Based Functions
1. Carry out community mobilization for health action.
2. Participate with other Health Workers and the community to carry out community diagnosis and continuous health needs assessment of the community.
3. Supervise Volunteer Village Health Workers(VVHWs)/ Traditional Birth Attendants(TBAs) and together visit prenatal and postnatal mothers to initiate and continue ease.
4. Carry out Health Education on environmental sanitation and prevalent Health problems such as Malnutrition, Diarrhea, and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) in the community.
5. Develop a monthly plan with the approval of the supervising officers.
6. Visit homes and monitor pregnant women.
7. Participate in the training of VVHWs/TBAs.
8. Collect and collate health data for monitoring and evaluation of PHC activities in the community.
9. Work with the supervisory officer and community members to plan solutions for identified health needs.
10. Identified learning needs of VVHWs/TBAs information from community-based data to serve as evidence for intervention.
Clinic Based Functions
1. Register new clients.
2. Weigh clients and record weights accurately.
3. Carry out health talks on different health-related topics as scheduled.
4. Dress uncomplicated wounds according to established procedures.
5. Sterilize equipment according to established procedures.
6. Participate in collating data for monitoring and evaluation of PHC activity in the clinic.
7. Update the clinic master card after community-based functions.
8. Perform any other duties assigned to him/her by the supervising officer.
ABBREVIATIONS
LGAs: Local Government Areas
NPI: National Programme on Immunization
ORS: Oral Dehydration Solution/Salt.
ORT: Oral Dehydration Therapy
PHC: Primary Health Care
SSS: Salt Sugar Solution
SCBE: Supervised Community-Based Experience
SCE: Supervised Clinic Experience
TBAs: Traditional Birth Attendants
VVHWs: Volunteer Village Health Workers
WHO: World Health Organization.
ii. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH ASSISTANT
The Health Assistant is a member of the health team who is trained to work both in the preventive and curative health care setting with some phases of social work in the homes and community. He/she will be employed by Government and private individuals to assist in the rendering of health services to those needing such care.
AIMS
To produce a level of manpower who will render assistance and support as auxiliary staff to qualified medical, nursing and health care practitioners.
OBJECTIVES
1. To render Health Care to those needing it in the hospitals, health care, private centres, private clinics, homes, industries and community.
2. To assist in the maintenance of the aesthetic and cleanliness of the environment where they work.
3. To assist in mobilizing the community for health actions.
4. To assist in rendering health care services in various units, e.g. Laboratory, x-ray, Physiotherapy, Clinics, Hospital Wards, Eye clinic, Pharmacy department,nt etc.
Job Title: Health Assistant.
Location of Job: Government Hospitals, Private clinics, Private Individuals, Industries, Local Government, Teaching Hospitals, Health Centers etc.
Duration of course: 4 semesters (two academic sessions)
Certificate awarded: Certificate for Health Assistant
Mode of Training: The programme is full-time.
PERSONAL QUALITY
1. He/she must be skilful/knowledgeable.
2. Have a good interpersonal relationship
3. Hardworking and dedicated to duty.
4. Honest, approachable and reliable
5. Have initiative and be observant
6. Punctual to duty
7. Responsible and mature
8. Portray the ethics and etiquette of Health practice.
ENTRY QUALIFICATION
1. Senior Secondary School Certificate with five passes at not more than two sittings.
2. Existing workers (e.g. ward orderlies, ward maids, dispensary attendants) in health facilities with five years of working experience in addition to a Senior Secondary School Certificate.
Indexing procedures
Colleges/schools shall verify their students’ entry qualification(s) from the appropriate Examination Board not later than six months after admission and present the students for indexing by the Council using the approved form (Appendix III) and paying the prescribed fees.
CERTIFICATE OFFERED
At the end of the course, the successful student shall be given a national/college certificate for Health Assistants, As well as a practising license that hasn’t passed the prescribed national exam from the regulating council.
FUNCTIONS
1. Performs duties assigned to him/her by the supervising officer.
2. Register new patients/simple record keeping/simple statistics.
3. Prepare admission bed/carry out admission procedures.
4. Maintain the cleanliness and aesthetic value of the patients’ environment.
5. Drug pre-packing and assisting in the pharmacy department.
6. Carry out observation, e.g. TRP, BP, intake and output chartin,g, etc.
7. Weigh patients and record weights accurately.
8. Carry out health talks on different health-related topics as necessary.
9. Estimate haemoglobin according to established procedure/specimen collection in the laboratory.
10. Test urine for sugar and albumen at the home level.
11. Give first aid care during an emergency, e.g. arrest haemorrhage, recognize signs of shock and treat.
12. Attend to cases of fracture/assisting during the application of P.O.P.
13. Provide family planning counseling.
14 . Attend to patients’ general needs, e.g. feeding helpless patients, offering urinals and bed pans, washing hair, treating pressure areas, bed baths, etc.
15. Assist in dressing uncomplicated wounds according to procedure.
16 . Maintenance of hospital equipment/sterilising equipment.
17. Assist in the x-ray department, dental unit, physiotherapy unit, laboratory, etc.
iii. DEPARTMENT OF NURSING TECHNICIANS.
Job Summary
The Nursing Technician course is a college-coined program to train candidates who aspire to travel the lane of a nursing career, not minding the beginning. It is a rigorous academic program loaded with a high workload, both theoretical and practical,l with a very strong curriculum for the cadre of health workers in training gathered from various levels of health education. He/she is employed by the formal Health System ( majorly, the private health sector) and is expected to spend 100% of his/her working time in the clinic. He/she is directly supervised by a licensed Nurse or Medical Doctor.
Job Title: Nursing Assistant
Location of the Job: Private Health centers, Clinic, Nursing Home caregiver.
Personal Qualification: He/she must be
i. Healthy and smart
ii. Able to communicate and work well with people in a healthy environment.
iii. Able to give support during delivery and even take delivery
iv. Be willing to live and work in the provided accommodation.
v. Mature, approachable, friendly and honest.
vi. Knowledgeable and skilful.
vii. Have initiative and tolerance.
viii. Punctual to duty
ix. Portray the ethnic and etiquette of Health practices.
ENTRY QUALIFICATION
1. Academically qualified Health Assistant who has been on the grade for a minimum of 2 years.
2. A candidate who possesses five (5) passes in English, Mathematics, Biology or Health Science, and any other two (2) subjects in WAEC or NECO at not more than two (2) sittings.
3. A candidate who possesses a certificate in Auxiliary Nursing training with two years experience.
Indexing procedures
Colleges/schools shall verify their students’ entry qualification(s) from the appropriate Examination Board not later than six months after admission and present the students for indexing by the Council using the approved form (Appendix III) and paying the prescribed fees.
Duration of the course: 3 academic sessions (6 semesters)
Certificate awarded: Diploma for Nursing Technician and License to practice as a Public Health Technician haven’t passed the prescribed National/Board examination.
Summary of Clinic-Based Functions.
1. Register new clients.
2. Weigh clients and record weights accurately.
3. Carry out health talks on different health-related topics as scheduled.
4. Dress uncomplicated wounds according to established procedures.
5. Sterilize equipment according to established procedures.
6. Participate in collating data for monitoring and evaluation of PHC activity in the clinic.
7. Update the clinic master card after community-based functions.
Perform any other duties assigned to him/her by the supervising officer.