Registered Staff Nurse (OT)

Qualification : Bsc (Nursing) / GNM

Experience : 1 to 5 Years of experience in OT is mandatory

The Responsibilities of the Staff Nurse in OT include the following:

As a Scrub Nurse:

· Responsible for operation room where she has been posted.

· Collects the requirements before starting the surgery.

· Coordinates with Circulating Nurse and technician regarding the

· Working condition of the equipment’s.

· Maintains sterile field throughout the surgery.

· Maintains the counts of Instruments, Sponges, Gauzes, and Needles.

· Declares and document the same.

· Responsible for packing and sterilization.

· Counter check with the Circulating Nurse regarding the specimen/

· Patient materials used for surgery.

· Ensure that the Operation Room is cleaned and carbonized.

As a Circulating Nurse:

· Receiving the patient from ward with all necessary documents.

· Coordinate with scrub nurse to assemble the requirements.

· Coordinate with OT Technician to ensure the working condition of the equipment’s.

· Assist the Scrub Nurse while laying her sterile trolley.

· Keep counts of Instruments/Sponges/Gauzes/Needles throughout the surgery.

· Responsible to declare the counts to the surgeons.

· Responsible for documenting the same.

· Stay in the OT assigned throughout the procedure.

· Help the OT Technician at the time of shifting the patient.

· Prepare patient material request for the items, which has been used for the surgery.

· Responsible for entering the specimen request in the HIS system and getting the Order No. and get the counter sign from the lab staff.

· Help the Scrub Nurse in packing.

· Supervise waste disposal and OT cleaning.

· Responsible to get the patient from the ward to the Operation Theatre.

As a recovery nurse

· Keep the bed ready to receive Post Operative Patients.

· Check all suction apparatus, vacuum lines, 02 line(Central Supply)

· Check the working condition of monitors.

· Receive the patient from the theatre with case sheet, reports etc pertaining to the patient.

· Ensure that anesthesiology chart, operation notes and post-operative orders are duly written by doctors.

· Fix the monitor, mask if desired.

· Follow the post-operative orders given by the concerned doctors.

· Check for the vitals and enter them in post-operative chart.

· Check the airway.

· Enter the receiving time, shifting time, surgeon’s name, surgical procedure done in the shifting book which is maintained in the recovery room.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Paid sick time
• Provident Fund

Schedule:

• Rotational shift

Supplemental pay types:

• Yearly bonus

Work Location: In person