Staff Nurse

Job Purpose:

To provide the quality care Service to the Patients in accordance with the policies and procedures of the organization.

Job responsibilities:

Job Activities:

Daily Job Activities:

• Checking all the consumables and non consumables daily.
• OT Carbolising
• Assessing Cases
• Receiving the baby(giving newborn care from the time of extraction)
• Recording Patients case files after surgery
• Sending medicine needs to Pharmacy for all patients
• Indending Pharmacy consumables, receiving it physically to maintain the OT Stocks.
• Creating Baby ID and admission of the baby
• During the procedures Staff Nurses used to assist surgeon, anaesthetist and Paediatricians.
• Supervising the housekeeping staff by making sure that the OT is cleaned well before making arrangements for the next case.
• Arranging the OT’s after the surgeries
• Washing Instruments used for the surgery and arranging the sets and giving for autoclaving
• Receiving the Scrub suites and folding it according to sizes and replacing it.
• Folding gauzes, ribbon gauzes and cotton balls(which are necessary for surgery) and for all wards and sending the same for sterilization.
• Maintain daily registers like OT main register, D & C register and tubectomy register
• Confirm the patient admission for the posted cases for that day and communicate with other departments for the needful.
• Taking care of the post operative cases in recovery room if patient needs intensive 1:1 care till she stabilizes and is admitted to the ward.
• Oversee the process of segregation in the OT.
• Practice proper infection control in the unit.
• Fumigation to be done for alternate days & routine fumigation to be done every half an hour.

Weekly Job Activities:

• Carbolisation needs to be done on weekly basis, to scrub the OT and fumigation to be done to all OT’s and adjoined departments.
• Getting Cultures of fumigated departments for testing by culturing for growth (of culture)
• To attend Inservice Education Classes every week in the Aerobic room for all staff nurses.
• To check and fill Formaline tablets in all chambers for the laproscopic instrument box and the sterile water in the humidifier.

Job Activities Monthly:

• Monthly reports and records to be maintained, should be checked and submitted to In charge.
• To check all consumables and non consumables in the absence of the In charge.Role & responsibilities

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