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What is First aid (Module 1 lesson 1)

Background Knowledge

I promised that all Nigeria Nurses will automatically become competent first responder through the knowledge of practical first aid. During our training in school of nursing, we all did first aid and we all passed it yet we can’t say we can handle real life situation. I think we should start by understand what first aid is.

WHAT IS FIRST AID

According to the definition that we all know from foundation of nursing textbook, First aid is immediate treatment given to an individual in the event of accident or sudden illness prior to the arrival of the health team or the transportation of victim to the hospital. This definition is okay for theory but not complete for practical First aid. Let’s see a more comprehensive definition of practical first aid;

First aid is the immediate Assistance that is given to an ill or injured person, using the facilities or materials available, until professional help arrives or the victim is transported to a good health facility. It is concerned not only with physical injury or illness but also with other initial care, including psycho-social support for people suffering emotional distress from experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event.

Note the slight difference in the two definitions.

• Instead of treatment you are giving assistance.

• Accident is a sudden occurrence and most time we are physical unprepared, we depend entirely on our mental preparation. First aid is immediate but temporal treatment so the victim must be transported to a health facility as soon as possible.
• We do not go about with medical supply and equipment, in the event of accident we give first aid using the facilities around. E.g You can use a nylon bag as glove, a piece of clean cloth or handkerchief as guaze/pad to give pressure on bleeding site, pieces of woods as splint, belts as rope etc.
• As a first aider you are not only treating physical injury but you are giving psychological care. Most times it is equally as important as the physical treatment. Some days ago at an accident scene involving two keke, I saw a beautiful girl crying. She had superficial bruises, I quick rushed to her and to my utmost surprise she wasn’t crying due to the pain but that she will no longer look beautiful and she doesn’t want to live again. I spent quality time convincing her that soon the injury will heal and she wouldn’t have a scar on her face. I gave her psychological first aid
• Our Nigerian system doesn’t have an emergency protocol in place- no emergency (ambulance) services in place, so don’t expect any health team to arrive. As soon as you initiate first aid get an onlooker that wants to help to arrange transport immediately

Now we know what first aid is. Our next topic is the legal issues in First aid. Visit our blog daily

Please do ask your questions

Nurses and RTA

You are on your way to work on mufti and suddenly there was a road traffic accident in front of you. What will you do as a nurse?

I know many nurses have witnessed this kind of situation before and you will be surprised at their response.More than 90% will stand with the crowd as an onlooker watching non medical personal take charge of the situation and rendering destructive intervention. There was this case at Nnewi, a city in anambra state, that my friend Jay jay witnessed as student nurse. The victim was a then NEPA staff and was electrocuted, the passerby rushed  and surrounded the victim. Everybody was giving order, you know how it is at accident scene in Nigeria, at the end they concluded that the best treatment for electrocution was to give the victim liquid milk and someone rushed off to a nearby store and got a milk. Before my friend could summon courage to stop them, they have administered the milk. The victim started choking and before anyone could say tom the victim died. Tell me who killed that victim, Is it the non medical passerby acting out of ignorance but a willing to take up responsibility or my friend that was too afraid and doubtful? I need your sincere answers


Nurses are trained to be first responders in emergency situations especially in this country that our emergency system is dead-let me not use the word dead cos it never existed. We were all taught first aid in our first year in nursing school. We saw question like what is first aid? who is a first aider? But like most things we were taught in school, we were not given real life scenario. We were not told that we are automatically first aiders as nurses. We are starting proper first aid courses for nurses. We want nurses all over Nigeria to be competent first responders. Don't miss out!!! Visit our Blog daily  

RED CROSS JOB OPPORTUNITY- Primary Health Care (PHC) Doctor / Nurse

No family postings

Bilingual French and English

Your task

Based on the needs of specific target groups , support to one or more existing health facilities, or through an independent ICRC clinic, the Primary Health Care (PHC) Doctor / Nurse ensures the organization and management of Health activities for patients and/or a population in accordance with the context, ICRC protocols and universal hygiene standards, by providing quality and continuity of care.

Ensure supervision and training of a team.

Protection of the medical mission among the basic components of the programme (collection of allegations of disrespect for the medical mission, reporting, follow-up...).

Functions and responsibilities

Health activities

• Assessment of the health situation in a community
• Support and supervision of local health-care facilities
• Training of national staff
• Management and treatment of Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases
• Set-up and implementation of immunization programmes
• Detection and treatment of acute malnutrition
• Response to health emergencies
• Clinical management for victims of rape
• Implementation and supervision of various aspects of the reproductive health package
• If necessary prescribe relevant treatment based on ICRC and national guidelines and protocols
• Ensure quality medical follow-up and if necessary refer to other health facilities
• Apply hygiene standards in all health activities

Pharmacy and medical equipment management

• Prepare orders for medical supplies
• Identify new needs, in terms of drugs and medical equipment, in line with pathologies treated in his/her health practice

Organization and team management

• Organize and work in collaboration with other departments
• Supervize, motivate and train a multidisciplinary health team, in particular staff carrying out medical activities (formal and informal training)
• Propose protocols and guideline for medical activities if they do not exist (after validation by the technical referent)
• Ensure respect for implementation of ICRC and national protocols and guidelines in order to ensure continuity of care

Monitoring, analysis and reporting

• Regular follow-up of the activities, including order of medical items (drugs and material)training, supervision, monitoring and reporting
• Monitoring of the health activities, analysing them in the context, with a public health approach, and make proposals for further development, if necessary

Selection requirements

• Ideal age: 30 to 50
• Preparedness to accept no family postings (i.e. no spouse, partner, children or dependents) for the first two assignments (minimum 12 months each)
• Excellent command of English AND French, Spanish an asset
• Registered nurse (Psychiatric nurses and nurse-midwives must have extensive experience in general medical and surgical care. Nurses with qualifications in maternal and child-health care must have some experience working with adults.)
• Medical doctor: university degree in Medicine
• Valid medical or nursing license to practice in your own country
• Public health diploma, an asset
• At least five years' post-graduate experience out of 3 as expatriate (both nurse and medical doctor)
• Driving licence (for manual transmission vehicles) and regular practice
• Fully conversant with IT tools

Your profile

• Organization skills, self-disciplined, flexibility
• Ability to work with a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural team
• Good communication skills, ability to listen, diplomatic
• Humanitarian commitment
• Able to cope with stress
• Preparedness to work under pressure in a potentially dangerous environment

Please note that owing to the ICRC's working procedures and principles, in particular the principle of neutrality, we cannot assign personnel to a country of which they are a national.

How to apply

 To send your applications to a position in the field, follow thoroughly the steps mentioned below. Only complete applications will be considered.

1. Download this application form using the SAVE AS option and RENAME it in your name
2. Fill in each field of the application form
3. In 1 email, attach ONLY these 3 documents related to the position you are applying to:

• Your CV
• Your cover letter
• Your application form

     4.  In the subject line of your email write in this order

Reference – Position – Last name First name(example: Ref. 16 - delegate - DOE John)

     5.  Send this email to gva_rec_services@icrc.org

No other documents required at this stage of the process.

Health-care positions specifics: you must also include in the email a copy of a recent certificate of registration from their national health authorities.

Hiring process timeline: if you do not receive a reply within two months, then please assume your application has not been shortlisted. As we receive a very large number of applications, only applicants invited to an interview may request an explanation as to why they were not ultimately chosen.

Request for information: Please note that no unsolicited application or enquiry will be considered; all unsolicited CVs or messages will be deleted without being read. For additional information please look at our webpage www.icrc.org/jobs and take the next opportunity to meet our HR staff at a promotional event.

Terrorists Attacks France,kills 128 dead and leaves many wounded

Terrorists Attacks France,kills 128 dead and leaves many wounded

On friday 13/11/2015 in French capital Paris

Eighty people were reported killed after gunmen burst into the Bataclan concert hall and took hostages before security forces stormed the hall.
People were shot dead at restaurants and bars at five other sites in Paris. At least 180 people were injured.
These are the deadliest attacks in Europe since the 2004 Madrid bombings.
French President Francois Hollande, visibly shaken, called Friday night's almost simultaneous attacks "a horror" and vowed to wage a "merciless" fight against terrorism.

The attack on the 1,500-seat Bataclan hall was by far the deadliest of Friday night's attacks. Gunmen opened fire on concert-goers watching US rock group Eagles of Death Metal. The event had been sold out.
"At first we thought it was part of the show but we quickly understood," Pierre Janaszak, a radio presenter, told Agence France Presse.

"They didn't stop firing. There was blood everywhere, corpses everywhere. We heard screaming. Everyone was trying to flee."
He said the gunmen took 20 hostages, and he heard one of them tell their captives: "It's the fault of Hollande, it's the fault of your president, he should not have intervened in Syria".
Within an hour, security forces had stormed the concert hall and all four attackers there were dead. Three had blown themselves up and a fourth was shot dead by police.

Meanwhile, not far from the Place de la Republique and the Place de la Bastille, three busy restaurants and a bar were targeted by gunmen armed with Kalashnikovs.
Around 40 people were killed as customers were singled out at venues including a pizza restaurant and a Cambodian restaurant, Le Petit Cambodge.
"We heard the sound of guns, 30-second bursts. It was endless. We thought it was fireworks," Pierre Montfort, a resident living close to Le Petit Cambodge said.

The other target was the Stade de France, on the northern fringe of Paris, where President Hollande and 80,000 other spectators were watching a friendly international between France and Germany, with a TV audience of millions more.
The president was whisked to safety after the first of at least two explosions just outside the venue to convene an emergency cabinet meeting. Three attackers were reportedly killed there.
As the extent of the bloodshed became clear, Mr Hollande went on national TV to announce a state of emergency for the first time in France since 2005. The decree enables the authorities to close public places and impose curfews and restrictions on the movement of traffic and people.
Paris residents have been asked to stay indoors and about 1,500 military personnel are being deployed across the city.
All schools, museums, libraries, gyms, swimming pools and markets will be shut on Saturday as well as Disneyland Paris. All sporting fixtures in the affected area of Paris have also been cancelled, AFP reports.
Police believe all of the gunmen are dead - seven killed themselves with explosives vests and one was shot dead by the security forces - but it is unclear if any accomplices are still on the run.
US President Barack Obama spoke of "an outrageous attempt to terrorise innocent civilians".
UK PM David Cameron said he was shocked and pledged to do "whatever we can to help".
The Vatican called it "an attack on peace for all humanity" and said "a decisive, supportive response" was needed "on the part of all of us as we counter the spread of homicidal hatred in all its forms".

What happened in Paris on Friday night is exactly what Europe's security services have long feared, and tried to foil. Simultaneous, rolling attacks, with automatic weapons and suicide bombers in the heart of a major European city, targeting multiple, crowded public locations.
The tactics have been used before, in Mumbai and elsewhere. But how they've come to Europe is one of many questions that will have to be answered.
Were the attackers French citizens? If so, how they were radicalised, armed and organised - was it in France, in Syria, and by whom? Why weren't they detected? Is France, after two major attacks this year, uniquely vulnerable or does the carnage in Paris mean all of Europe faces new threats to our public places and events? And if a Syrian link is proven, will France recoil from that conflict or will it redouble its commitment to the fight against radical groups there?