NURSE

Description

Job Summary: A nursing professional responsible for managing and executing activities in the surgical block and outpatient department, ensuring quality, safety, and regulatory compliance, while coordinating nursing teams and clinical care processes. Key Highlights: 1. Management and execution of nursing activities in the surgical block and outpatient department 2. Planning, coordination, and supervision of the nursing team 3. Ensuring safe and high-quality patient care Works in the management and execution of nursing activities across various departments of the institution, including the surgical block and outpatient department, ensuring quality of care, patient safety, and compliance with clinical protocols and regulatory standards. This professional is responsible for planning, coordinating, and performing nursing procedures; providing direct patient care; supervising nursing teams; and collaborating with physicians and other healthcare professionals. Works in an integrated manner across departments to promote continuity of care, efficient use of resources, and continuous improvement of clinical care processes. Plans, coordinates, and supervises the nursing team in the surgical block and outpatient department, including scheduling, training, performance monitoring, and interdepartmental integration. Provides nursing care to patients throughout all phases of care (pre-, intra-, and post-procedure), ensuring safe and high-quality care for both surgical procedures and outpatient visits, including transfers to HEMG and UPA. Manages supplies, equipment, medical gases, sterilization, storage, and replenishment, ensuring availability, proper preservation, and quality—including osmosis testing and sterilization via Sterlink. Maintains records in systems, spreadsheets, and institutional documents, including pre-audit of medical records, loss control, surgery tracking, delays, and cancellations. Ensures adherence to protocols, safety standards, safe surgery processes, institutional workflows, and counter-referrals; reports and evaluates adverse events; and initiates alerts and RNCs as required. Reports issues related to equipment, instruments, and supplies, requesting maintenance and replenishment of consumables. Participates in meetings, trainings, and continuous improvement initiatives, supporting CME, laboratories, corneal transplants, and interdepartmental workflows to ensure operational efficiency and team development. Complies with internal company policies, processes, and guidelines, including the Code of Conduct and established Quality Standards. Maintains confidentiality of internal information whenever necessary, as well as information inherent to each role, ensuring data, document, and organizational procedure confidentiality. Supports other departmental and institutional activities as needed, contributing to the achievement of organizational objectives.