The posting
· Obtain and record health and medical history, perform physical examination on patient prior to surgery.
• Perform preoperative evaluation.
• Provide direct patient care before, during, and after procedures requiring surgery.
• Make professional decisions for surgical care based upon a comprehensive health assessment.
• Maintain professional standards of health care before, during, and after a surgery.
• Prepare and evaluate the safety of operating equipment, supplies and drugs used intra-operatively.
• Assist surgeons intra-operatively when scrubbed up.
• Assist in circulating for surgeries when not scrubbed up.
• Ensure correct patient, correct site, correct surgery, and correct swab count in all surgeries.
• Ensure correct documentation is done.
• Assist in cleaning, packing and sterilization of instruments accordingly to the TSSU standard.
• Ensuring consent for surgical procedure is signed.
• Maintaining the cleanliness of the OT.
• Ensure that billing of consumables used during intra-operatively are all correct.
• To support in any other task as instructed by the Nurse Manager or Medical Director



