Nurse

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Yann Libessart/MSF

Fieldset

An Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) nurse’s work is diverse. Our nurses have found themselves operating therapeutic feeding centres, running in/outpatient clinics, implementing vaccination campaigns and organising mother-child health programmes.

They may take on managerial roles, heading departments in hospitals or health centres and training and supervising other nursing staff. Standing at the forefront of primary healthcare in our projects, MSF nurses are highly responsive, adaptable and compassionate people, committed to their work and helping those in need.

Read the blog posts below to find out more about life as an MSF nurse, or click here to find out more about applying to join the team.

A nurse treats a five-month-old for pneumonia at the MSF hospital in Kutupalong

Josie Gilday

Nurse

Innovation: A day in the life of a humanitarian nursing team – More observations

Any decision is only as good as the information it’s based on. British nurse Josie and her team are running an innovative new project to gather information on how nurses work in humanitarian emergencies – to ultimately help MSF save more lives.

17 Jan 2019

Josie Gilday

Nurse

Innovation: A day in the life of a humanitarian nursing team – The roll-out

After a successful pilot, Josie and the team are ready to launch their research project, using smartphones to track the work of Médecins sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) nurses caring for children in Bangladesh …

03 Jan 2019

Courtney Bercan

Nurse

Memorial

Courtney Bercan, a nurse from Vancouver, Canada, worked with Médecins sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on a search-and-rescue boat in the Mediterranean in 2016, the Dignity I. In December 2018, MSF was forced to stop operations of its last rescue boat in the Mediterranean, the Aquarius, due to political pressure from several European countries. This news triggered harrowing memories for Courtney.

19 Dec 2018

Josie Gilday

Nurse

Innovation: A day in the life of a humanitarian nursing team – The things you learn during a pilot

What does a humanitarian nurse do in an “average” day? And how can finding out benefit our patients? Josie blogs from an innovative project that’s aiming to answer those questions…

18 Dec 2018

Josie Gilday

Nurse

Innovation: A day in the life of a humanitarian nursing team – The Pilot Project

Around the world, Médecins sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) nurses are caring for people whose lives have been impacted by conflict, epidemics or disasters. Josie is part of a project using smartphones to help us understand more about humanitarian nursing and ultimately save lives. In this fourth part of her blog, she begins piloting the project in Bangladesh.

06 Dec 2018

Josie Gilday

Nurse

Innovation: A day in the life of a humanitarian nursing team – Arriving in Bangladesh

Josie is an experienced MSF nurse embarking on an innovative new project that aims to understand the vital role of nurses in humanitarian emergencies, using data to ultimately save lives. In this third part of her blog, she arrives in Bangladesh to test a newly developed app.

14 Nov 2018

Josie Gilday

Nurse

Innovation: A day in the life of a humanitarian nursing team – Developing data collection tools

Do you remember everything you did today? How long did each task take? How many times did you repeat them? What if the answers to these questions could help change how MSF delivers medical care in an emergency? Nurse Josie Gilday blogs…

05 Nov 2018

Hanne

Nurse

Nursing in the world's largest refugee camp

900,000 refugees are currently living in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Medical needs are running high. Hanne joins the Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) team trying to meet them.

29 Oct 2018

Harriet Zych

Nurse

A neonatal experience in Gambela, Ethiopia

Just one month ago, Harriet began her first posting with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF). She is working at a busy hospital in Ethiopia, where she is working to ensure that very young babies have the best possible start in life. She blogs about her own first 28 days…

29 Oct 2018

Josie Gilday

Nurse

Innovation: A day in the life of a humanitarian nursing team - the start

Nurses are key members of the Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders MSF team, providing vital medical care to patients in emergencies around the world. But staffing guidelines for nurses are largely based on experience and expert opinion rather than evidence. Josie blogs from the start of a new project that’s aiming to change that…

29 Oct 2018

Vera Schmitz

Nurse

Iraq: Life after the war

A year after the end of the Iraq war, MSF is still providing desperately needed health care to people who were forced to flee the violence. Vera blogs...

26 Oct 2018

Heidi Anguria

Nurse

Rohingya crisis: Vaccinate, raise awareness, vaccinate

After working for Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in South Sudan and the Mediterranean, German nurse Heidi Anguria is now in Bangladesh. In her third blog from inside Kutupalong refugee camp, home to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya, she shares her experiences of working on large-scale vaccination campaigns.

27 Sep 2018