- Maintaining personal contact with patients, relatives and carers, being sensitive to their needs for courtesy, dignity and privacy and ensuring a friendly environment at all times
- As skills develop, managing the theatre area or department in the absence of the theatre Sister/Charge Nurse or Deputy, maintaining safe staffing levels, ensuring that policies are followed up and that the Senior Nurse is informed of any problems or incidents that might arise
- Maintaining timely and accurate records and ensuring that confidentiality is respected
- Storing, checking and administering drugs including the intravenous route in accordance with Trust policy, NMC standards and HPCC
- Prepares and cleans operating room for specific surgery requirements.
- Scrubs and circulates for General, Emergency, Maternity, Gyne, Dental, Bariatric, Colorectal, Urology, and Robotic cases.
Equipment used: Robotic cases - Da Vinci X (Robotic Colorectal, bariatric, gyne), Camera stack systems Olympus, Storz, Stryker, Arthrex (Laparoscopic cases), Harmonic, Diathermy, Ligasure, Calf compression devices, Thunderbeat (Gyne cases), Microscopes, Power tools, Operating table and attachment, Operating lights, Conmed insufflation machine, bladder scanner, Dental drills, Bipolar Hysteroscopy, Resector scope, Flexiscope, OGD machine, Neptune, Hover mat secure fit, Light source & head lamp, TEMS machine, Cell salvage, Myosure, Suction machines, SMM machine, Patient air bed and Air mattress
Computer System used: Bluspier, Cerner, Badgernet