Staff Nurse - OT

Apollo Spectra Hospitals; New Delhi; On-site; INR 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Apollo Spectra Hospitals in Delhi seeks an experienced OT nurse to provide comprehensive nursing care during surgeries and support to surgeons. The role includes prepping the operating room, ensuring aseptic technique, and coordinating with anaesthetists and staff.

The candidate should have OT experience, ability to handle pre- and post-operative planning, and provide patient and family support throughout the surgical process.

Qualifications

• Experience in operating theatre (OT) and surgical suites.

Responsibilities

• Provide nursing care for patients undergoing surgery and assist surgeons in major or minor operations.
• Maintain standards of nursing care in pre-operative and post-operative planning, implementation and patient care.
• Prepare the operating room for all emergency and scheduled procedures.
• Maintain aseptic techniques during surgical scrubs, setting instruments, gowning and gloving.
• Give psychological support to patient and family.
• Notify anaesthetist/surgeons about admission and surgery details.
• Receive patient 30 minutes prior to surgery and ensure all check lists accompany patient.
• Transfer patient to operating theatre and monitor post-operative recovery.
• Prepare operating theatre with required equipment and staff for procedures.
• Ensure presence of necessary staff such as circulating or scrub nurse.
• Care for and maintain instruments; assist as circulatory or scrub nurse.
• Arrange trolley with instruments and assist surgeons.
• Check counts of swabs, needles and instruments before closing surgery.
• Instrument washing and packing; recheck counts in recovery.

Skills

OT experience

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• Provide nursing care for patient undergoing surgery and assist surgeons in major or minor operations.
• Maintain standards of nursing care in pre-operative and post-operative planning, implementation and patient care.
• Prepare the operating room for all emergency and scheduled procedures.
• Keep principles of aseptic techniques in performing surgical scrub, setting instruments, gowning, gloving as needed for the procedure.
• Give psychological support to the patient and family.
• Ensure the anaesthetist/surgeons informed about the admission and surgery details of the patient.
• Receive the patient 30mts prior to the surgery.
• Ensure all check list, patient concern, investigation duly accompany with the patient.
• Receive patients and take them into the operating theatre, undertake post-operative monitoring, in the recovery room and ensure proper transfer of patients to the surgery ward.
• Prepare the operating theatre for specific operations (equipment, table, etc.).
• Ensure the presence of the necessary staff to assist the surgeon, such as circulating nurse or scrub nurse.
• Proper care and maintenance of instrument.
• Assist as a circulatory or scrub nurse.
• To arrange the trolley with all the necessary instruments for surgery.
• To assist the surgeons.
• To check the counts of swabs, needles, instruments etc. before closing the surgery.
• Instrument washing and packing.
• The circulatory nurse to recheck whether the counts are correct or not.
• Ensure the specimen was sent properly.
• To help in shifting the patient to recovery room.

Preferred candidate profile

Having Experience in OT