Registered Nurse - OT

Overview

• Be responsible for providing and coordinating patient care, educating patients and the public about various health conditions, and providing advice and emotional support to patients and their family members.
• 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, Paediatric 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 all perioperative processes safely.
• Dons & adheres to operating room attire according to policy and procedure.
• Use of appropriate personal protective equipment and safety systems.
• Prepares room and assembles instruments & equipment based on patient’s surgical needs.
• Demonstrate knowledge of aseptic technique.
• Correctly identifies patient and surgical site.
• Checks thoroughly the pre-operative checklist of patient: including completion of required diagnostic & laboratory procedures
• Monitors patients’ vital signs in the pre-operative area and post-operative recovery room
• Positions patient with the use of positional aids, maintaining circulatory, respiratory, neuromuscular homeostasis while maintaining privacy and providing maximum exposure to the operative procedure
• Demonstrates skill in performing the duties of scrub nurse and circulating nurse
• Provides safety to patient, to self & the whole surgical team by adopting safety protocols like ‘Time Out’
• Counts Surgical items audibly, and views items concurrently with another individual when counting, and recognizes that one of the individuals performing the count should be the RN circulator.
• Recognizes that, when possible, surgical counts during a procedure should be performed by the same two individuals.
• Verifies correct recording of the surgical counts of soft goods, sharps, miscellaneous items, and items placed in the wound in a location that is visible to the surgical team (eg, the white count board).
• Implements correct practices for the prevention of infection, practicing strict aseptic technique & maintenance of sterile field.
• Assist the surgeon and anaesthetist during the operation and ensure appropriate handling of the specimen obtained during surgery.
• Organize patient transportation from the OT to the recovery room and carry-out and/or supervise all the postoperative activities to prepare the OT for the next scheduled operation or emergency.
• Implement the hygiene, sterilization, asepsis and disinfection protocols and procedures at all times, before, during and after operations, to ensure the safety conditions of patients and staff.
• Participate in care and maintenance of endoscopes, electrosurgical unit and other specialized equipment, ensuring an agreed standard of decontamination at all times including accurate records of traceability of all equipment.
• Accurately maintain count of all surgical instruments, swabs and needles used during the surgery and ensure that the surgical instruments are send to CSSD for cleaning and disinfection as per the policy of the hospital.
• Demonstrate skill in surgical hand wash and appropriate knowledge of the infection control practices pertaining to operating theatre.
• Competent in monitoring of patients post anaesthesia.
• Ensure that patients recovering from anaesthesia receive optimum care and is able to demonstrate complete knowledge in the usage of Aldrete scoring.
• Maintains confidentiality of patient’s records and updates all relevant patient documentation / medical records as per hospital policy and procedure.
• Demonstrates competence in Cardio – Pulmonary Resuscitation technique
• Responsible for checking of crash carts and emergency equipment’s as per hospital policy.
• Responsible for appropriate storage and maintaining inventory of medications including high alert medications and narcotics as per hospital policy.
• Demonstrates an economical approach to the utilization of equipment’s and supplies while assisting the charge nurse to maintain an appropriate ward stock.
• Takes responsibility for the unit in the absence of the Charge Nurse as assigned
• Demonstrates strict adherence to all hospital policies and procedures
• Performs any other assigned responsibilities as identified by the Charge Nurse / Supervisor / Nursing Administrator.