Speciality Nurse

Job Purpose

Promotes and restores patients' health by completing the nursing process; collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members; providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families; supervising assigned team members.

Essential duties and responsibilities

• To take over and hand over the patient to the floors/ ICU.
• Maintain a clean and sterile OT at all times.
• Check and maintain all records of OT equipment and take necessary actions whenever required
• Plan and schedule all OT supplies/ instruments/ equipment effectively so that they are optimally utilized.
• Maintain the OT records with respect to patients and equipment as per policy
• Plan and schedule manpower for surgeries effectively without wastage of time and manpower.
• Managing and providing supportive staff during critical incidents/ emergency situations.
• Be open to discuss any sentinel events/ near misses for promoting corrective action and ensuring high quality patient care.
• To assist in ensuring OT policies and procedures are followed at all times
• Ensure identification safety for collection of specimens during collection and until the report informed to consultant.
• Participate in consultants rounds and assist by giving relevant information based on nursing assessment/reassessment and observations.
• Carry out routine check at each handover that all equipments are in working order.
• Maintain patients and accompanies safety by taking preventive measures against accidents.
• Accurately records and reports incidents.
• Ensure every error to be recorded.
• Ensure strict infection control protocol and bio-waste guidelines to be followed for 24x7.
• Ensure that daily briefing points and sign off are mandatory for day-to-day update.

Specific Unit Related Nursing Care

• Practice Aseptic Technique.
• Creates and maintains sterile field.
• Maintains Universal precautions.
• Provides equipment and supplies based on patient needs.
• Set ups Operation room for surgery.
• Perform proper specimen handling.
• Perform proper post-procedure duties.
• Receives patient into OT and checks documentation including anesthetic consent.
• Move the patient safely pre and post operatively.
• Provides detailed handover of patient post operatively.
• Ensure the swab count correct and signed off.
• Completes documentation.
• Adherence to IPSG (Sign in /Time Out / Sign out)
• Responsible to carry out Critical Value Protocol
• Any other jobs assigned by superior.

Working conditions

• Should be willing to work in different assigned shifts.
• Stretched working hours
• Great deal with standing walking along with bending lifting
• Professional hazard
• On call duty
• Field duty (Camps, periphery clinics)

Skills Abilities

• Caring and compassionate nature
• Excellent teamwork and people skills
• Observational skills
• Ability to deal with emotionally charged and pressured situations
• Excellent Verbal and written communication skills
• Multi-tasking

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