Endoscopy Nurse - Operating Theatre

* Daily activities:
- Don fresh OT attire according to the OT protocol
- Prepare the endoscopy room, ensuring cleaning and disinfection is done appropriately.
- Monitor temperature, relative humidity and positive pressure of the endoscopy room, sterile storage room
- Prepare and manage devices and equipment necessary for the endoscopy procedure
- Know and understand the endoscopy procedure to be performed and prepare accordingly.
- Practice proper surgical hand scrub, gowning and gloving procedures
- Practice strict aseptic techniques
- Assist GEH doctor during endoscopy procedure.
- Perform swab, needles and instrument checks
- Assist in positioning of the patient
- Assist the anaesthesiologist in an emergency situation
- Ensure time out is done and the surgical safety checklist is completed
- Control, test equipment after use (e.g. endoscopes)
- Contain and disinfect endoscope and accessories in closed containers before sending them to CSSD for reprocessing
- Clean, disinfect and prepare the endoscopy room after the procedure, in readiness for the next procedure
- Perform reprocessing of used endoscopes in the absence of CSSD duty staff
- Complete charging before the patient leaves OT
- Perform effective handover to the recovery room
- Manage the post-operative patient in the absence of the recovery room nurse
- Work on day duty and ensure night/ week-end on-call
* Medication/Consummables/Implants
- Perform safe medication administration according to the 7 R's
- Manage consummables and implants used
- Ensure medical equipment and scopes are in good working order.
- Ensure integrity of the sterile items.
- Check inventory and monitor for expiry dates of sterile items
* Nursing procedures/skills
- Checking of the patient as per Surgical Safety Checklist
- Ensure patient safety
- Ensure safe patient's transfer
- Respect of patient privacy
* Specific procedures/skills
- Patient positioning
- Surgical site preparation
- Anticipation of GEH doctor's needs
- Management of soiled fiberscopes
- Manual and mechanical cleaning of endoscopy fiberscopes
- Know the high-level disinfection process
- Good practices applied in storage of endoscopes
- OR cleaning
- Store cleaning
- Adhere and make sure that good behavior is respected in OT and CSSD