Operation Theatre Nurse

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Job Summary:

Job Duties:

Area: Operation Theater

• To ensure change rooms are clean with enough supply of scrub suits/ caps/ masks for the day.
• Take inventory of the OT where you are posted for the day.
• Check equipments for their functional status and ensure all the items required for the surgery to follow whether it is ready including items for anesthesia, perfusion and for surgery instruments, dressing materials, suture materials (kept ready by the night staff) and arrange it on trolleys as required.
• To inspect the OT equipment lights, Scrub room, dressing trolleys, scrubs stand solution, etc.
• Circulating Nurse will help the scrub nurse to get the instruments trolley ready for the case. Give promptly all the required items. After each case accompany the patient to the recovery room or to the ICCU and endorse the patient to the assigned staff.
• The surgical kit pre/ post-op should be checked.
• The billing sheet to be completed to avoid confusion for overcharging/ not charging.
• The instruments should be washed cleaned of all dried blood, and then dispatched to the CSSD.
• Dispose all the sharps in separate hard container and send it for incineration.
• All linens/ materials to be disposed off in appropriate color-coded liners as decided by the hospital infection control policy.
• Prepare CSSD requisition for the following day and send by 2 pm.
• Keep OT always neat and tidy and ready for next use at any given time.
• Taking care of the entire fine, costly instruments.
• Maintain records in the system and Log Books.
• Any unusual incident happens pertaining to patient /OT personnel must report to senior staff on duty/supervision and fill the form for necessary action to be taken.

Pre-OP Hold:

• Check the pre-op hold area for the following trolleys, suction, Central gases, Vacuum and Record papers.
• Call for the patients as per the OT list schedule, at least half hour prior to the scheduled time.
• Special enquiry about the arrangement of blood and the availability.
• Complete all your records. Report at once if any discrepancies noticed.