PRIMARY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- The staff nurse reports to the OT In charge.
- Help to Prepare surgery schedule
- Do the all works as per NABH protocol
- Ensure the availability of emergency medicines in OT
- Prepare expiry list of all stock medicine inside the OT
OT Arrangement - Cataract, Lasik and Retina
- Autoclave unloading
- Machine arranging
- IOL verification and check the availability
- Retinal injection – Verify the medicine and Maintain the stock of the same
Check oxygen, nitrous and all gases suction and all other supportive equipments to be ready
- Maintain necessary medicines
- Check the availability of surgery instruments on day before
- Help to arrange instruments and dresses for Lasik procedure
Circulation
- Preparation of surgical instruments, linen, aesthetic articles, drugs and necessary sutures.
- Maintain consumption register
Welcome the patient while entering to OT
Ensure fitness of patient before surgery- Ensure lab test is done before surgery
- Assist the anesthesia doctor
- Confirm patient name, MR number and eye
- Check grade, dilatation and any other complications (cataract)
- Change the dress obey the OT protocol
- Give peripheral block if needed
Assist the surgery
- Scrub the hands as per NABH rule
- Ensure all instruments and other equipments are ready( cataract , lasik retina and other surgeries )
- Confirm the eye , type of surgery ( Cataract – SICS/ PHACO/MICS ) (Lasik OT – LASIK/ PRK) (Retina – AVASTIN / IVTA or other injection
- Drape the patient
- Assist the doctor (cataract, Lasik , retina , and other surgery )
- Collection, preserving and labelling of specimen with appropriate preservatives and sending the same to lab
OT Cleaning
Necessary cleaning to be done get ready for next case using disinfectant- Clean all machines and equipments
- fumigation to be done daily and whenever it is required by using proper drugs
- sending the swabs for culture and sensitive ones in week and whenever it is necessary ( water
culture and AC )
Check the availability of surgery instruments on day before
- Check surgery patient appointments (cataract, Lasik, Retina)
Central sterilisation department
- Instruments washing, drying , packing
- Linen packing
- Cotton ,eye pad and gauze making and packing
- do autoclave
- Auto clave the OP instruments and ward instruments to Kannur branch
- Sent the items to Perinthalmanna for ETO sterilisation
- Receive the consumables from pharmacy and verify with request form, and store them appropriately
- Stock checking & maintenance of OT items
- Check and receive with all reports, records and all other pre-operative check list.
- Coordinate with Lasik in charge
- Prepare consumption form at the time of surgery
- Maintain necessary medicine stock in OT
- Ensure recovery criteria of every patient before shift from OT to ward
- Any other responsibility assigned by the management is to be carried out
