General Nurse – Theatre at Scion Hospital

Key responsibilities

• Prepare and maintain operating theatres, ensuring cleanliness, functionality and availability of surgical equipment, instruments and consumables.
• Undertake preoperative patient preparation, including patient identification, procedure verification, positioning and completion of surgical safety checklists.
• Perform scrub and circulating nursing duties, assist surgical and anaesthetic teams and maintain strict aseptic techniques throughout surgical procedures.
• Monitor patients during the perioperative period, conduct surgical instrument, needle and swab counts, and facilitate safe patient transfer and handover to recovery.
• Ensure appropriate handling, decontamination, sterilisation, storage and maintenance of surgical instruments and theatre equipment in collaboration with CSSD.
• Maintain accurate theatre documentation, surgical records and specimen handling processes while monitoring stock levels and availability of theatre supplies.
• Support theatre scheduling, turnaround time management and efficient utilisation of resources while upholding patient safety, infection prevention standards and participating in clinical audits and quality improvement initiatives.