In charge - OT

Motherhood Hospital (Rhea Healthcare); Indore District; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Motherhood Hospital (Rhea Healthcare) in India seeks an OT Nursing Lead to manage the routine operations of the operating theatre, ensuring patient safety and optimal staffing. You will review medical notes, prepare care plans, and supervise anesthesia technicians to ensure high standards of perioperative care.

Responsibilities include coordinating OT scheduling, ensuring equipment functionality, maintaining stock, and documenting surgeries accurately.

Responsibilities

• Manage OT routine, equipment and patient care.
• Review doctors' notes and drug chart; act as required.
• Prepare nursing care plans and provide bedside nursing care effectively.
• Ensure medication safety and patient safety protocols are practiced.
• Deploy manpower; prepare duty rosters; assign nursing and anesthesia technicians as per requirements.
• Ensure efficient staffing, material, and equipment availability.
• Ensure nurses are competent for tasks assigned to them.
• OT Scheduling: plan next-day checks, review booking register, note special requirements; coordinate with surgeon and anaesthetist; plan manpower and equipment.
• Arrange additional resources such as blood, equipment as needed.
• Check medications, consumables, instruments and equipment are available for surgery.
• Ensure all equipment are functional; conduct random checks of surgical and laparoscopic instruments.
• Ensure equipment is serviceable and readily available; supervise usage.
• Ensure documentation for all completed surgeries is updated and accurate.
• Maintain emergency stock of medications and consumables in OT.
• Coordinate with OT technician, biomedical team and housekeeping staff.
• Material management and cost control: indenting, receiving stock, storage and usage; prevent wastage and misuse.
• Narcotic storage documentation of usage.
• Awareness and implementation of NABH Nursing Excellence standards.

Job description

Key Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Manpower deployment prepares duty roster; assigns nursing and anesthesia technician as per requirements.
• Ensures efficient staffing, material, and equipment availability.
• Ensures nurses are competent and can handle tasks assigned to them.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.