Auxiliary nurse (CTC)

Reports to: CTC coordinator (or healthcare supervisor depending on the organisation)

• Accompanies patients to the relevant treatment sector (oral or IV rehydration) once their treatment has been prescribed.
• Settles the patient (chair or bed, blanket, cup, etc.).
• Explains to the patient where the latrines, showers, hand-washing points are.
• Prepares and distributes ORS, ensures that ORS is always available for patients, that cups of ORS are always filled, checks that ORS is drunk.
• Alerts the nurse in the event of a problem.
• Distributes meals to patients and attendants; checks that patients are eating.
• Ensures patient hygiene (changes soiled clothes or blankets, etc.).
• Collects and transports dirty laundry (patients’/attendants’ clothes and hospital linen) to the laundry.
• Collects clean clothes and returns them to the patients/attendants.

Patient discharge a Citation a. Depending on the work set up, these tasks are carried out by nurses or competent health promotors specifically trained to communicate with patients.

• Gives ORS for maintenance therapy at home.
• Gives instructions on how to prepare ORS, the administration of treatment at home (ORS, zinc sulfate if indicated), to return to the CTC if symptoms reappear.
• Gives ORS for maintenance therapy at home.

Other tasks

• Sorts and discards medical waste in his/her unit into the appropriate containers.
• Participates in certain team meetings.
• Attends certain in-service training courses.