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Reports to: CTC coordinator
Medical stock management
- Plans and submits orders for drugs, medical devices, equipment, consumables.
- Tracks orders and takes delivery of articles, checks them and puts them away.
- Updates all in/out movements on each article stock card.
- Checks expiry dates and storage conditions (humidity, temperature, etc.).
- Monitors weekly consumption.
- Carries out a physical inventory at the end of every week.
- Re-evaluates, together with the coordinator, the buffer stock in light of the outbreak’s evolution.
- Informs the coordinator in the event of a problem (e.g. risk of shortage, delivery errors, transport problems) and ensures management of these problems.
Supply for treatment sectors
- Prepares orders for each sector, for 24 hours.
- Supervises supply (orders/deliveries/consumption) of peripheral ORP when applicable.
Supervision of staff responsible for preparing ORS a Citation a. This is the pharmacist’s task if the preparation of ORS is centralised. If ORS is prepared at unit level by auxiliary nurses, the preparation is supervised by the corresponding unit’s nurses.
- Trains staff responsible for preparing ORS.
- Ensures that support materials describing how to prepare ORS are available.
- Supervises preparation of ORS (dilution, hygiene, production flow).
Other tasks
- Sorts and discards medical waste into the appropriate containers.
- Participates in certain team meetings.
- Attends certain in-service training courses.
Notas
- (a)This is the pharmacist’s task if the preparation of ORS is centralised. If ORS is prepared at unit level by auxiliary nurses, the preparation is supervised by the corresponding unit’s nurses.