Ophthalmic Opportunities
Consultant opportunity
I'm the education manager of The Pacific Eye Institute in Suva, Fiji. The Pacific Eye Institute is an initiative of The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ offering training courses tailored to the Pacific region's eye health needs. Post-graduate nursing students from throughout the South Pacific are trained to provide eye care in Pacific conditions. Students gain a solid academic basis for their practice and undertake considerable supervised practical experience in refraction, diagnosis and treatment of ocular disease, and operating theatre work. We often use consultants to provide supervision and mentoring to our students.
A scheduled consultant has just informed us that they will, be unable to attend the dates they were scheduled for. This means we have opportunity for a skilled OT nurse to provide our post-graduate nursing students supervision in OT preparation, equipment checking, instrument packing and sterilization, pre-op preparations, intra-op care, scrubbing and assisting the surgeons, post-op care and cleaning of instruments and storage.
As a consultant you would be remunerated as well as provided with a round trip airfare to Suva, Fiji. You would also receive lodging, travel and overseas living insurance.
We are looking for a consultant for any 3 week or longer period from 17 August 2009 to 27 November 2009. If you are interested in this position please do not hesitate to contact me at your convenience for more information.
Matt Pearce
http://www.pacificeyeinstitute.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
Opportunity at Orbis
Use your talents to participate in ORBIS’s mission to reduce blindness in developing countries worldwide.
The ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital (FEH) is a unique mobile teaching and operating facility on board a DC-10 jet aircraft that travels to developing countries worldwide to share the gift of sight. Our Flying Eye Hospital staff travel up to 45 weeks per year and anywhere from a few weeks to 3 months at a time.
OPHTHALMIC STAFF NURSE
The Ophthalmic Staff Nurses on the ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital (FEH) deliver quality nursing care to patients in the operating, sub-sterile, and recovery rooms on the Flying Eye Hospital and in local hospitals and train local health professionals in developing countries in current ophthalmic surgical procedures, protocols and patient care.
For more information about ORBIS and this employment opportunity, please visit our website: www.orbis.org. To apply, email your C.V. and cover letter to
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