Job Objective/Purpose
Adhere to Avenue Healthcare’s defined policies, protocols, procedures and standards
Key Responsibilities
Maintaining Theatre list
- Correctly book patients for surgical procedures
- Ensure surgeon / anaesthetist are informed of bookings or changes in time
Receiving Patients
- Checks completeness of theatre checklist and act appropriately
- Carry out a Pre-Operative Assessment
- Appropriately explain the nature of the procedure / operation to the patient
- Ensure all X-rays, Scans, Investigations and Bloods are available
- Obtains correct consent for operations and general anaesthesia for day cases
- Prepares and avails patient in time for operation with all reports for day cases
Operating Room Management
- Accounting for all the pieces of equipment, especially after the operation.
- Getting and opening packs required
- Ensures that the packs remain sterile and that the operating room environment is contamination free
Post-Operation
- Accurately assesses patient after operation, documents clinical observations & findings
- Consults and advises surgeon / anaesthetist immediately if abnormalities are noted
- Effectively hands over the patient to recovery / ward nurse
Drug Administration
- Ensure all required drugs/supplies are available
- Adhere to the 10 rights of drug administration (right patient, medication, dosage, route, time, documentation, client education, assessment, evaluation and client refusal of treatment)
- Ensure all treatment sheets have patients biodata including information on drug allergies.
- Submit all new drug orders to pharmacy promptly and STAT doses given within 30 minutes
- Ensures all the items used by patients are billed accurately
Any other duty as assigned by your immediate supervisor in line with the job description.
Personal Specifications
- A higher diploma in Nursing. Bachelor of Science in Nursing is desirable and added advantage
- Higher Diploma in Perioperative Nursing
- A valid nursing council of Kenya license
- Up to date BLS, ACLS/ATLS certificate
- 2 years’ experience in nursing
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with attention to detail and results oriented
How to apply:
Application documents (CV and Certificates) must be emailed to [email protected] with the job position you are applying for as the subject of the email by 17th March 2023.
