Operation Theatre Staff Nurse

Greeting from Motherhood Hospital Bengaluru, Indiranagar

Looking for Operation Theater Incharge

Responsible for the smooth functioning of OT

Ä  Adherence to Nursing clinical standards.

- Ensures professional handover and takeover of shift.

- Understands patient & consultant requirements and plans resource deployment to meet the need.

- Responsible for the OT routine, equipment and patients.

- Reviews the doctors notes and the drug chart and acts as required

- Prepares nursing care plans and renders effective bedside nursing care

- Ensures medication safety and patient safety protocols are practiced.

- Adheres to all safety measures involved in patient care and self-protection.

- Manpower deployment - prepares duty roster; assigns nursing and anesthesia technician as per requirements.

- Ensures efficient staffing, material, and equipment availability.

- Assigns duty ensuring mix of experience and skill, senior and junior, per shift

- Ensures nurses are competent and can handle tasks assigned to them.

- Ensures nurses follow the protocols without exception.

- OT Scheduling: plans following day - checks the booking register a day before surgery, notes and actions special requirements, co-ordinates with the surgeon & anesthetist; plans manpower, equipment and ensures OT is fully prepared for the specific surgery.

- Responsible for ensuring additional requirement of resource, blood procurement, equipment is made available.

- Checks to ensure medications, consumables, instruments and equipments are available for the surgery.

- Ensures all equipment are fully functional; conducts random checks of surgical and    

laparoscopic instruments ensuring they are functional.  

- Competently handles all equipment used in patient care; ensures team is competent in usage; ensures equipment is serviceable and readily available.

- Tracks re-scheduling when cancellation/ delay.

- Ensures that aseptic technique is maintained strictly in OT.

- Ensures strict Infection control adherence – monitors all activities.

- Provide nursing services to the surgical procedure.

- Strictly follows WHO surgical safety process in OT – count of instruments, consumables.

- Ensures documentation for all completed surgeries is updated and accurate.

- Maintains emergency stock of medications and consumables in OT.

- Co-ordinates with OT technician, biomedical team and housekeeping staff.

  - Ensures that the postoperative patients are handled carefully in the recovery room and transferred according to the protocol.

- Monitors Histopathology sample dispatch as per standards.

- Responsible for material management and cost control – documentation, Indenting, receiving stock, storage and usage. Ensures no wastage and misuse.

- Responsible for narcotic management – storage & documentation of usage.

- Aware of NABH & Nursing excellence standards and ensures implementation.

- Build and maintain cordial relationship with surgeons and anesthetists.

- Is the critical communication & coordination channel between OT team, patient & clinician.

- Maintains all records, reports and registers as per organizational standard; ensures data collection accuracy, ensures documentation is complete and correct, maintains record of surgery register, tracks Nursing Quality Indicators and reports accurately.  

- Ensures Incidents are immediately escalated to NS.

- Handles emergencies competently & calmly; provides guidance & decisions in a timely manner

- Upholds patient rights and maintains confidentiality of patient information: medical and personal; avoids any violation by ensuring no discussion of patient identifiable information in non-secure areas.

- Coordinates closely with Admissions to plan resource deployment based on occupancy; when expected to be full, to escalate if resources are required.

- Coordinates and works closely with LDR, NICU & Ward.

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- Inspires and leads team effectively.

- Creates and maintains cordial relationships within the team and with other departments.

- Ensure Induction and training of team as per protocol.

- Prepares effective training modules, coaching to enhance team skills on the job.

- Conduct appraisals fairly and objectively; encourages and helps develop team skills.

- Develops competent 2nd line.

Ensures retention of team

KNC Registration is mandatory

Only female candidates can apply

Regards,

HR