This Private Clinic is a brand-new state-of-the-art facility utilised by some of the UK's top cosmetic and medical practices. The facilities include: operating theatres, consulting rooms, office space and meeting and seminar rooms, alongside training courses for cosmetic surgeons. The Recovery Nurse is a member of the operating department team undertaking roles in Scrub, Anaesthetic, Circulating and recovery and is designated regularly in charge of an operating theatre.
Scrub Nurse Professional Responsibility
- Provide nursing care for patients within the Operating Department.
- Perform Operating Department duties in alignment with established policies.
- Act as a Scrubbed member of the Theatre team, conducting safety checks on swabs, instruments, and needles, and reporting findings to the surgeon.
- Serve as a circulating member of the Theatre team.
- Assist team members in preparing and cleaning Theatres.
- Contribute to compiling the Theatre register.
- Label and dispatch laboratory specimens to the recovery area.
- Offer assistance to the Anaesthetic and Surgeon as needed.
- Verify, witness, and administer controlled and scheduled drugs.
- Coordinate with Departmental and Ward staff to escort patients to the Operating Department.
- Inform Senior nurse or Theatre manager of proposed changes to the operating lists.
- Supervise junior staff as required.
- Participate in discussions regarding departmental policies and contribute to the development of new procedures with the Theatre Manager. Communicate policy changes to relevant staff.
- Assist in compiling procedure manuals.
- Maintain appropriate stock levels in the Operating Department.
- Report incidents of accidents, complaints, or defects in drugs, supplies, or equipment to the Theatre Manager or senior nurse.
- Participate in trials of new equipment and supplies and assess the serviceability of existing equipment.
- Assist in bacteriological investigations in the Operating Department when necessary.
- Aid medical and para-medical staff from other departments with procedures carried out in the Operating Department as required.
- Assume the duties of the senior nurse in their absence.
- Participate in any patient care duties and contribute to the smooth running of the hospital as directed by the Nursing Services Manager or Hospital Manager.
Admin Responsibilities for the Scrub Position
- Ensuring the maintenance of good relationships, communications and teamwork with all disciplines within the department and other departments of the hospital concerned with Operating Department work.
- Participating in regular meetings of Operating Department staff.
- Self-preparation
- Ensuring correct dress, scrubbing up, gowning and gloving.
- Preparation of theatre prior to commencement of lists to include assembling and function testing of necessary electromedical equipment.
- Preparation of instruments, trolleys and sterile supplies requested for the surgery.
- Maintaining a sterile environment, thus ensuring aseptic technique.
- Performing swab needle and instrument counts with the circulating practitioner as per local policy.
- Ensuring specimens are correctly dealt with by the circulating practitioner.
- Completing documentation as per local policy i.e. care plans/operating registers.
- Procurement of room equipment/instruments for operative procedures.
- Regular updating of surgeons' preference cards.
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