Role & responsibilities

1. Preoperative patient preparation

- Receive the patient from the ward or preoperative holding area using the prescribed handover checklist.
- Verify patient identity, planned procedure, operative site, consent documentation, and surgical-site marking as applicable.
- Check allergies, fasting status, relevant investigations, and preoperative assessment records.
- Ensure prescribed preoperative medications and preparation are completed.
- Provide reassurance, privacy, dignity, and protected transfer to the operating table.

1. Maintenance of asepsis and infection control

- Perform surgical hand antisepsis and follow correct gowning and gloving procedures.
- Maintain the sterile field and identify potential contamination immediately.
- Ensure instruments, drapes, and supplies are appropriately sterilized and handled.
- Follow OT cleaning, disinfection, biomedical waste segregation, and PPE protocols.
- Minimize unnecessary OT traffic and follow infection-prevention policies.

1. Scrub nurse responsibilities

- Prepare the sterile instrument trolley and arrange instruments, sutures, needles, swabs, and other supplies.
- Check instrument integrity and availability before the procedure.
- Assist with sterile draping and maintain the sterile field.
- Pass the correct instruments and supplies to the surgeon during surgery.
- Perform and reconcile surgical counts with the circulating nurse according to protocol.
- Handle specimens safely and coordinate their transfer in accordance with the team's instructions.

1. Circulating nurse responsibilities

- Prepare the operating room for the scheduled procedure.




- Check the availability and functioning of the operating table, surgical lights, suction, electrosurgical equipment, and other required devices.
- Coordinate supplies and assist the sterile team without compromising asepsis.
- Participate in patient verification, surgical safety checks, and the team time-out.
- Document important events, procedure times, counts, and nursing care.
- Coordinate specimen labeling, safe transport, waste disposal, and room turnover.
- Postoperative and recovery-room responsibilities

1. Post-anaesthesia care

- Receive the patient from the operating room team with a structured handover.
- Assess airway patency, breathing, circulation, consciousness, pain, and vital signs.
- Monitor oxygen saturation and administer oxygen as prescribed.
- Observe for bleeding, nausea, vomiting, hypothermia, and other postoperative complications.
- Monitor IV fluids, drains, dressings, and prescribed infusions.
- Escalate deterioration promptly and document the patient's response to treatment.

1. Patient transfer and handover

- Ensure the patient is stable for transfer according to the responsible clinician's assessment and recovery criteria.
- Communicate the procedure performed, anaesthesia, allergies, medications, blood loss,



drains, and pending investigations.
- Ensure appropriate monitoring and personnel accompany the patient during transfer.
- Complete recovery records and communicate postoperative instructions to the receiving nurse.

1. Equipment and material management
2. OT equipment and instrument management

- Check instruments, equipment, and emergency trolleys before scheduled procedures.
- Ensure equipment is functional and report faults to the appropriate department.
- Handle instruments safely and coordinate decontamination and sterilization with the Central Sterile Services Department (CSSD).
- Maintain adequate stocks of sutures, dressings, sterile supplies, implants, and consumables.
- Check expiry dates, packaging integrity, and sterility indicators according to policy.

1. Emergency preparedness

- Assist during cardiac arrest, haemorrhage, anaphylaxis, and other surgical emergencies.
- Ensure resuscitation equipment and emergency drugs are available as assigned.
- Activate the hospital emergency response and support the surgical and anaesthesia teams.
- Participate in emergency drills and competency-based training.

Preferred candidate profile

- GNM, B.Sc. Nursing, or Post Basic B.Sc. Nursing from a recognized institution.
- Valid registration
- Relevant experience in an Operation Theatre (OT) department is preferred
- Compassionate, disciplined, attentive to detail, adaptable, and capable of working under pressure.
- Willingness to work rotational shifts, nights, weekends, and emergency duties as required.

📌 Walk-in || Staff Nurse - Operation Theatre Department (Noida)
🏢 Medanta
📍 Noida