Senior Staff Nurse
SeniorPrincipal
Your tasks
- Obtain and record health and medical history, perform physical examination on patient prior to surgery.
- Perform preoperative evaluation.
- Provide direct patient care before, during, and after procedures requiring surgery.
- Make professional decisions for surgical care based upon a comprehensive health assessment.
- Maintain professional standards of health care before, during, and after a surgery.
- Prepare and evaluate the safety of operating equipment, supplies and drugs used intra-operatively.
- Assist surgeons intra-operatively when scrubbed up.
- Assist in circulating for surgeries when not scrubbed up.
- Ensure correct patient, correct site, correct surgery, and correct swab count in all surgeries.
- Ensure correct documentation is done.
- Assist in cleaning, packing and sterilization of instruments accordingly to the TSSU standard.
- Ensuring consent for surgical procedure is signed.
- Maintaining the cleanliness of the OT.
- Ensure that billing of consumables used during intra-operatively are all correct.
- To support in any other task as instructed by the Nurse Manager or Medical Director