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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.

Melissa Buxton

Nurse

Crossing the swamp: How we get healthcare to the people in remote South Sudan

Sometimes MSF staff have to go the extra mile to reach patients, even if it’s through a vast swamp. British nurse Melissa shares her story...

19 Mar 2019 / 9 minute read

Sundas Parvez

Nurse

Pakistan: The miracle babies

Sundas meets a mother of quadruplets...

08 Mar 2019 / 2 minute read

Marcela Mendonca

Nurse

Vlog: How to know if someone has malaria

Argentinian nurse Marcela shares her tips on how to spot the warning signs that a patient has malaria

27 Feb 2019 / 1 minute read

Marcela Mendonca

Nurse

Vlog: How to pack for four months in Sierra Leone

What would you pack for your first humanitarian assignment? Argentinian nurse Marcela shares this video

13 Feb 2019 / 1 minute read

Marcela Mendonca

Nurse

Vlog: Five things I love about working in Sierra Leone

Marcela, a nurse from Argentina, shares her favourite things about working on assignment in Sierra Leone

12 Feb 2019 / 1 minute read

Marcela Mendonca

Nurse

Vlog: A day with MSF in Sierra Leone

Argentinian nurse Marcela shares a video about a day in the life of her medical team at Kabala District Hospital

04 Feb 2019 / 1 minute read

Khurshid Ahmad consulting with a patient in Pakistan

Khurshid Ahmed

Nurse

Pakistan: A new way of treating hepatitis C

In Machar Colony, a slum area of Karachi, an Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) team have been treating patients for Hepatitis C using a new line of drugs to combat the virus.

01 Feb 2019 / 4 minute read

Vera Schmitz

Nurse

When people flee to seek refuge

As she returns to her own home after a posting in Iraq, Vera Schmitz, a Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) nurse reflects...

31 Jan 2019 / 4 minute read

Josie Gilday

Nurse

Innovation: A day in the life of a humanitarian nursing team – We did it!

For eight weeks, Josie has been in Bangladesh working on an innovative new research project that hopes to use data to learn more about humanitarian nursing - so MSF can save more lives in future.

31 Jan 2019 / 6 minute read

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 / 7 minute read

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 / 6 minute read

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 / 7 minute read