Registered Nurse - OT

Job Description

• Assess and identify patients' needs and implement and monitor the patient's medical plan and treatment. They will work with a team of physicians and other health care specialists or allied health in various settings.

• Perform systematic patient assessment, re-assessment and collect pertinent data about the patient’s health or situation.

• Understand and analyse the assessment information and data.

• Determine actual and potential nursing diagnoses, problems, and issues.

• Define the predicted and expected outcomes of the patient’s planned care.

• Create and evaluate patient care plans with the interprofessional team, in collaboration with the patient and patient's bystanders.

• Record vital signs, recognize, address and escalate all abnormalities.

• Maintain and update technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice.

• Employ strategies to promote patients’ health and a safe environment.

• Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory examinations.

• Perform essential life support as per regulatory requirements and scope such as but not limited to Basic Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Neonatal Resuscitation etc.

• Prepare patients for medical examination and treatment.

• Administer medications and monitor patients for any side effects and reactions.

• Administer treatments such as IV fluids or blood products and monitor patients for any reactions.

• Provide wound care management.

• Assist in medical procedures invasive or non-invasive as needed.

• Facilitate the process of safe patient`s admission, transfer and discharge.

• During the surgical procedure, OT Nurses can take the role of:                                                                                                                      

• Circulating Nurse, with the following additional duties:                                                                                                                                                            Assists in positioning, responding to comfort / safety of patient.             

• To assist the Surgeon and Anesthetist in operation theatre.

• Provides for accurate care and handling of specimens.

• Observes and enforces strict standards of asepsis.

• Observes checks and monitors all equipment used during surgery to confirm they are running smoothly.

• Handles patient documentation.

• Inventories all items both pre- and post-surgery.