Registered Nurse - OT Opthalmology

Job Description

• Consult and coordinates with health care team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care plans. 
• Conducts pre and post – operative education as necessary. 
• Serves as the communication liaison to family and members of the operating team. 
• Ensures that operating on correct patient and the correct procedure id being performed. 
• Responds to life-saving situations based upon nursing standards and protocol. 
• Records all care information concisely, accurately, and completely, in a timely manner, in the appropriate format and on the appropriate forms. 
• Initiate corrective action whenever equipment shows adverse malfunction. 
• Perform other position –related duties as assigned depending on assignment setting.
• Set up the theatre by assembling of equipment’s and supplies based on patient surgical need, surgeon’s preference, and policies of the hospital. 
• Demonstrates knowledge of aseptic technique. 
• Scrub for surgery according to international standards and hospital hand washing policy. 
• Set up the back table and mayo trolley by maintain sterile field including sponge, needles and instrument counts and maintains a clean and orderly operative field for the surgeon to work on. 
• Assist the surgical team in gowning and gloving. 
• Prepare the surgical site with antiseptic solution. 
• Drape the patient with the help of the surgeon. 
• Enable setting up of necessary equipment.
• Execute time out policy with team members. 
• Correctly identifies patient, procedure, and surgical site. 
• Maintain sterility throughout the surgery. 
• Coordinate with the circulating nurse for the initial and final counting of sponges, sutures, needles, and instruments before closure. If there is a missing item, notifies the surgeon and nursing in-charge immediately. 
• Maintain instruments by proper handling, washing, disinfecting. Checking and packing in the designed sets for CSSD.