The Team

Main Theatres at the Royal Hobart Hospital is a dynamic perioperative service comprising 14 operating theatres and supporting a broad range of surgical specialties including Cardiothoracic, Vascular, Plastics, Burns, Urology, General Surgery, Upper GI, Ear, nose, throat, Ophthalmic, Gynaecology, Obstetrics, Neurosurgery, Orthopaedics and Trauma. The service delivers complex elective and emergency surgical care, including highly specialised and tertiary-level procedures.

The Role

The primary purpose of the Instrument/Circulating Theatre Nurse is:

• to strengthen health outcomes through the provision of safe quality, clinically appropriate nursing care in partnership with patient/clients, their families and other health professionals.

• an integral part of the multidisciplinary perioperative team. The primary focus of the theatre nurse is to provide safe quality evidence-based care for patients during the intraoperative phase of the surgical journey.

• Participate as a scrubbed member of the team to prepare, handle,



check and record instruments and sundries in accordance with theatre protocols, maintain aseptic technique and comply with infection prevention and control protocols at all times.

• Participate as a circulating member of the team, ensuring that the sterile field is maintained, and assisting the instrument nurse in their duties.

• to practice in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) professional standards, Australian College of Operation Room Nurses (ACORN) Standards for Perioperative Nursing and applicable standards of the AS/NZS 4187.

• Participate and contribute to a learning environment, through continuing education and professional development.

Note: - Please refer to the Statement of Duties for all the selection criteria of this position to address in your application.

Why Tasmania

The Department of Health Tasmania oversees various hospitals across the state, including the Royal Hobart Hospital, Launc

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