Registered Nurse - OT Opthalmology (Sharjah)

General Duties and responsibility

•    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.

Scrub Duties

•    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.

Circulatory Duties

•    Essure proper supplies, equipment’s and instrumentation’s are available for surgical procedures. 
•    Receive the patient, checks that all documents are complete and checks all parameters as per preoperative checklist. 
•    Validate patient’s name, surgical procedure, and surgeon before shifting to respective theatre. 
•    Position the patient according to surgical procedure. 
•    Assist the scrub nurse in preparing necessary equipment, instruments and consumables. 
•    Executes time out policy with surgical team members. 
•    Together with the scrub nurse, count instruments, gauze, mops, blades and needles and documents in the white board as well as in the preoperative nursing record. 
•    Continuously supervise aseptic technique throughout the procedure. 
•    Accept and consciously applies emergency measures when needed. Demonstrate competence in Cardio-pulmonary Resuscitation Technique. 
•    Stay with the patient during extubation until the patient is shifted to the recovery room. 
•    Complete all the documentation needed. 
•    Demonstrates the following: 
    Document in the patient file.  
    Complete the OT surgical checklist (Time-Out). 
    Assist in theatre cleaning following surgery, including proper disposal of used supplies and sharps, cleaning of equipment’s and setting up theatre for the next surgery. 
    Collect and replaces consumables to Operation Theatre store before and after surgery.

Medication Administration

•    Follows hospital policies on medication administration. 
•    Safe custody and administration of drugs/narcotics as per hospital policy. 
•    Knowledge of medications and their correct administration based on age and weight of the patient and their clinical condition. 
•    Follows the ten medication rights before administering any medication.

Patient and Family Education

•    Communicates appropriate information to patients and their relatives. 
•    Educates the patient and family regarding the disease, medication, diet, pain management, rehabilitation etc. and according to the identified individual need provide educational materials if available.

Maintenance of supplies and equipment

•    Performs competency in point of care testing and ensure quality requirements. 
•    Able to handle equipment’s in the unit like: 
    BP apparatus (welchyllen) 
    Cardiac monitor 
    ECG Machine (Philips) 
    Infusion Pump (Braun) 
    Diagnostic set (Welchyllen) 
    Glucometer (Accu check) 
    Nebulizer 
    Pulse Oxymeter (adult & pediatric) 
    Thermoscan (Braun) 
    Thermometer (Alaris) 
    Baby weighing scale (Health o meter) 
    Breast pump (Medela) 
    Spot vital signs monitor (Welchellyn) 
    Transilluminator (Veinlite pedi) 
    Weighing scale (Seca- 703) 
    Crash trolley 
    Defibrillator 
    Neoblue phototherapy 
    Bilisoft 
•    Ensures all equipment is maintained in good working order, reporting any fault to Nurse Manager/Engineering. 
•    Ensure complete ward requirements, stock verification and inventories. 
•    Prevents wastage and misuse of supplies.