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Neonatal Nurses | VSO Skip to main content Fighting poverty through volunteering Search form Search Donate Other ways to support us Menu Search You are herePartner with usIrish Aid Neonatal Nurses Join VSO Ireland in the fight versus poverty and develop life-long professional skills VSO Ireland is the leading international minutiae organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty. Working in 24 countries virtually the world, our unique role is to place single-minded volunteers with thoughtfully selected organisations where their skills can have the greatest impact. As a VSO volunteer, you’ll live and work in some of the world’s poorest communities. By sharing your expert skills and experience, you’ll help generate new ideas and ways of doing things, helping the communities you work in lift themselves out of poverty. We’re not well-nigh delivering quick fixes, but instead focus on long-lasting, sustainable change, that will impact generations to come. We’re moreover the very first organisation in Ireland to be found fully compliant with Comhlámh’s Code of Good Practice, so you can rest unpreventable that VSO Ireland is single-minded to spanking-new volunteering standards. Your New Role: We’re looking for experienced Neonatal Nurses to volunteer on our Irish Aid funded maternal and neonatal healthcare programme over the next three years. This is based in Karamoja, one of the poorest regions in Uganda where lack of trained medical staff and vital resources midpoint giving lineage is often fatal for young mothers. As a VSO volunteer, you’ll share your expertise with local nurses and midwives, helping them develop vital skills and save increasingly mothers’ and babies’ lives. Typical tasks might include: Providing on-the-job training to health workers in delivering essential newborn superintendency and detecting danger signs without lineage Supporting health workers in data collection, reporting and wringer Working with health centres and Community Based Organisations to ensure newborn superintendency is part of their overall strategy Providing translating to hospital management on policy matters and how to modernize programmes Providing guest lectures when needed and where possible in the School of Nursing and Midwifery These roles are for one year, and embark at various times throughout the next three years. I’ve had the opportunity to get involved in a variety of projects, supervising students on their clinical placements, classroom based teaching and conducting a clinical inspect on the outcomes of newborns. - Jacqueline McAuley who volunteered as a midwife trainer in Ethiopia Benefits of Volunteering with VSO Ireland: Learn well-nigh illnesses and treatments we don’t have in Ireland Develop training, leadership, collaboration and management skills Make a difference to lives of local women and children in Uganda Make life-long friends and memories as you interreact with other volunteers and local staff What VSO Ireland Provides: We believe volunteering should be a cost-neutral wits and so imbricate the forfeit of the following: Flights Accommodation Medical insurance Visa and documentation Pre-departure and in-country training All volunteers receive a monthly wage to imbricate vital living expenses, as well as a Home Country FundedWage(equivalent to £4 a day in your Irish wall account). What You’ll Need: Our platonic candidates will be qualified nurses or midwives with previous mentoring wits and expertise in maternal and newborn health. You should be open-minded, flexible and ready to work with limited resources. Applications from both working and retired health professionals are welcomed. What You Need to Do Now: You can wield for the Neonatal Nurse role here. If you’re interested in learning increasingly well-nigh rhadamanthine a nurse volunteer with VSO Ireland, we’d love to hear from you. Please undeniability 01 640 1060 or email volunteer@vso.ie with a little information well-nigh your background. You can moreover read this quick guide to volunteering as a nurse or midwife with VSO Ireland. We moreover hold monthly Meet VSO information evenings where you can ask staff and returned volunteers questions well-nigh volunteering overseas. See www.vso.ie/meetvso for details. Find out increasingly well-nigh this role Complete the form below, and we'll be in touch to discuss this role. Name * Email write * Phone I am an Irish resider * I am an Irish resider I am happy to be contacted by VSO well-nigh this role * I am happy to be contacted by VSO well-nigh this role Leave this field zippo Read More: A quick guide to volunteering as a nurse or midwife Are you a nurse or midwife thinking well-nigh volunteering overseas? In this quick giude, we run through what volunteering often squint like for health professionals, and the benefits to be gained. Reflecting on my volunteer placement in Ethiopia Stephanie Galvin talks through her volunteer wits in Jinka Hospital, Ethiopia where she shared her skills with staff in the paediatrics department. Q&A with Neonatal Nurse Rachel Before setting off for Uganda, we unprotected up with Rachel to find out how she was feeling well-nigh her placement and what made her take the plunge in the first place... 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