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    The handling/scrub nurse has several responsibilities before, during, and after surgery. Before surgery, they ensure the operating room is clean and sterile, prepare the necessary instruments and equipment, and perform instrument and sponge counts. During surgery, they maintain sterility, ensure patient safety, pass instruments to the surgeon as needed, and monitor counts. After surgery, they undertake final instrument and sponge counts with the circulating nurse, clear equipment, help apply dressings, and prepare the patient for recovery.

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    The handling/scrub nurse has several responsibilities before, during, and after surgery. Before surgery, they ensure the operating room is clean and sterile, prepare the necessary instruments and equipment, and perform instrument and sponge counts. During surgery, they maintain sterility, ensure patient safety, pass instruments to the surgeon as needed, and monitor counts. After surgery, they undertake final instrument and sponge counts with the circulating nurse, clear equipment, help apply dressings, and prepare the patient for recovery.

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    The handling/scrub nurse has several responsibilities before, during, and after surgery. Before surgery, they ensure the operating room is clean and sterile, prepare the necessary instruments and equipment, and perform instrument and sponge counts. During surgery, they maintain sterility, ensure patient safety, pass instruments to the surgeon as needed, and monitor counts. After surgery, they undertake final instrument and sponge counts with the circulating nurse, clear equipment, help apply dressings, and prepare the patient for recovery.

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    The handling/scrub nurse has several responsibilities before, during, and after surgery. Before surgery, they ensure the operating room is clean and sterile, prepare the necessary instruments and equipment, and perform instrument and sponge counts. During surgery, they maintain sterility, ensure patient safety, pass instruments to the surgeon as needed, and monitor counts. After surgery, they undertake final instrument and sponge counts with the circulating nurse, clear equipment, help apply dressings, and prepare the patient for recovery.

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    HANDLING/ SCRUB NURSE

    Duties and Responsibilities of Handling/ Scrub Nurse

    Duties of Handling/Scrub Nurse

    Before an operation
    Ensures that the circulating nurse has checked the equipment
    Ensures that the theater has been cleaned before the trolley is set
    Prepares the instruments and equipment needed in the operation
    Uses sterile technique for scrubbing, gowning and gloving
    Receives sterile equipment via circulating nurse using sterile technique
    Performs initial sponges, instruments and needle count, checks with circulating nurse
    When surgeon arrives after scrubbing
    Perform assisted gowning and gloving to the surgeon and assistant surgeon as soon as they
    enter the operation suite
    Assemble the drapes according to use. Start with towel, towel clips, draw sheet and then lap
    sheet. Then, assist in draping the patient aseptically according to routine procedure
    Place blade on the knife handle using needle holder, assemble suction tip and suction tube
    Bring mayo stand and back table near the draped patient after draping is completed
    Secure suction tube and cautery cord with towel clips or Allis
    Prepares sutures and needles according to use.

    During an operation
    Maintain sterility throughout the procedure
    Awareness of the patient’s safety
    Adhere to the policy regarding sponge/ instruments count/ surgical needles
    Arrange the instrument on the mayo table and on the back table
    Before the Incision Begins
    Provide 2 sponges on the operative site prior to incision
    Passes the 1st knife for the skin to the surgeon with blade facing downward and a hemostat to
    the assistant surgeon
    Hand the retractor to the assistant surgeon
    Watch the field/ procedure and anticipate the surgeon’s needs
    Pass the instrument in a decisive and positive manner
    Watch out for hand signals to ask for instruments and keep instrument as clean as possible by
    wiping instrument with moist sponge
    Always remove charred tissue from the cautery tip
    Notify circulating nurse if you need additional instruments as clear as possible
    Keep 2 sponges on the field
    Save and care for tissue specimen according to the hospital policy
    Remove excess instrument from the sterile field
    Adhere and maintain sterile technique and watch for any breaks

    End of Operation
    Undertake count of sponges and instruments with circulating nurse
    Informs the surgeon of count result
    Clears away instrument and equipment

    After operation:
    Helps to apply dressing
    Removes and siposes of drapes
    De-gown
    Prepares the patient for recovery room
    Completes documentation
    Hand patient over to recover room.

    Responsibilities of Handling/ Scrub Nurse


    Scrub nurse. Scrub nurses do a surgical scrub and go into the surgery with the surgical patient
    and doctors. They set up the operating room for the patient, ensure all the tools are sterile and
    ready to go, hand tools to the doctor during the surgery, and perform other duties inside the
    surgical room.

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