Jobs at Lagoon Hospitals

Job Description

• This role is responsible is to provide direct clinical assistance to aneasthetics, safe operational anaesthetic and ancillary equipment in the operating theatre and maintaining a high standard of patient care.

Summary of Responsibilities

• Stocking & preparation of anaesthetic rooms ensuring all rooms and equipment trolleys are stocked in accordance with stocking list for each theatre
• Checking and preparation of anaesthetic machines, intravenous drugs and ancillary equipment including cleaning, disinfection and sterilization of equipment
• Preparation, application and establishment of patients monitoring equipment
• Provide professional, clinical and technical assistance to the anaesthetist during all anaesthetic procedures and other times
• Receiving patients from theatre reception, checking verbally the full names and hospital number with wrist band and ensure the adequate operative consent has been signed consistent with the operation list
• Transferring patients to the operating room and to post-operative care units after procedures
• Assisting with safe positioning of patients
• When required, provide assistance outside the operating theatre in other units like the Intensive Care Unit, Emergency Department, CT Scanning Suite, MRI Unit, or other areas of the hospitals
• Participate in your departmental quality improvement project
• Carry out other duties as assigned.

Key Result Areas/ Performance Goals:

• Anaesthetic Rooms to be kept to a high degree of cleanliness
• Sterilization of all anaesthetic equipment
• Incidence reporting and adequate documentation
• Triage
• Use of SOPS / adherence to quality standards.

Job Qualifications

• Anaesthetic Technician Certificate
• 1 year post qualification experience is desirable

Core Competencies:

• Basic Life Support skills
• I CARE attitude
• Team Player
• Attention to details
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.

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Summary of Responsibilities

• This role is responsible for assisting clients and patients sustain and maintain their health and wellbeing
• Observing and recording the conditions of patients
• Performing procedures such as monitoring of vital signs with necessarily follow up, wound dressings, IV placement and providing other assistance needed
• Checking and administering medications and injections
• Ongoing accurate assessment of each patient while monitoring their response to treatment
• Admission and discharge of patients
• Documenting and maintaining adequate patient records
• Maintaining a clean and safe environment always.
• Comply with the use of Standard Operating Procedures and policies / adherence to quality standards
• Participate in your departmental quality improvement project.

Key Result Areas / Performance Goals

• Adequate documentation
• Incidence reporting
• Triage
• Use of SOPS / adherence to quality standards.

Job Qualifications

• RN, RM / B.Sc. Nursing Science
• Valid nursing practicing license.
• 0 to 5 years work experience.

Core Competencies:

• Basic Life Support skills
• I CARE
• Attention to details.
• Good interpersonal and communication Skills
• Ability to handle stress and crisis situations.