Registered Theatre Nurse

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• Responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating individual plans of care for patients in the perioperative environment. • Provide timely, skilled and effective assistance as a member of the theatre team, rotating through the roles such as scrub and recovery nurse, where needed. • Provide nursing care that is respectful, ethical and professional at all times. • Demonstrate ability to work competently in theatre and observe key principles like maintaining a sterile environment, aseptic technique, infection control and prevention, anatomy and physiology, proper surgical technique and equipment, health and safety etc. • Maintain effective communication with patient’s families and carers, and members of the theatre team to ensure smooth progress of each theatre list. • Ensure that individual nursing knowledge, skills and practice is up-to-date to perform all required duties effectively. • Demonstrate awareness and compliance with legal and ethical aspects of preoperative nursing. • Must be accessible at all times when rostered to be ‘on call’ for shift work or in case of emergencies. • Assist with coordinating the smooth and safe flow of patients throughout the surgical process. • Support the Theatre Unit Leader with creating theatre lists according to surgeon/hospital priorities, patient emergencies and waiting lists, and ensure appropriate theatre staff are scheduled for surgery. • Coordinate with MBHS departments to ensure the safe transfer of patients to and from the operating theatre room. • Prepare the operating room for patient/procedure. • Prepare all surgical instruments, swabs, gauges and other equipment required for the surgery and maintain sterile field at all times. • Perform the surgical count (instruments, swabs, gauges, sutures, needles etc.) with the theatre circulating nurse according to MBHS standard procedure and report on the same to the surgeon prior to surgery. With all prep, counts and lists, there should be a report that binds it all together as well as inventory. • Ensure all surgical equipment (oxygen tanks, suction machine, laryngoscope, emergency defibrillator etc.) are on, checked and in good working condition prior to surgery.