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    Responsibility and Role of Scrub Nurse

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    The scrub nurse has several responsibilities before, during, and after surgery to maintain sterility and assist the surgeons. Before surgery, the scrub nurse ensures the equipment and operating room are clean, prepares the necessary instruments and equipment, and performs counts. During surgery, the scrub nurse passes instruments to the surgeons, maintains sterility, monitors the patient's safety, and manages sponges and instruments. After surgery, the scrub nurse undertakes final counts with the circulating nurse, clears equipment, assists with closing, and hands the patient over to recovery.

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    The scrub nurse has several responsibilities before, during, and after surgery to maintain sterility and assist the surgeons. Before surgery, the scrub nurse ensures the equipment and operating room are clean, prepares the necessary instruments and equipment, and performs counts. During surgery, the scrub nurse passes instruments to the surgeons, maintains sterility, monitors the patient's safety, and manages sponges and instruments. After surgery, the scrub nurse undertakes final counts with the circulating nurse, clears equipment, assists with closing, and hands the patient over to recovery.

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    The scrub nurse has several responsibilities before, during, and after surgery to maintain sterility and assist the surgeons. Before surgery, the scrub nurse ensures the equipment and operating room are clean, prepares the necessary instruments and equipment, and performs counts. During surgery, the scrub nurse passes instruments to the surgeons, maintains sterility, monitors the patient's safety, and manages sponges and instruments. After surgery, the scrub nurse undertakes final counts with the circulating nurse, clears equipment, assists with closing, and hands the patient over to recovery.

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    Responsibility and Role of Scrub Nurse

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    The scrub nurse has several responsibilities before, during, and after surgery to maintain sterility and assist the surgeons. Before surgery, the scrub nurse ensures the equipment and operating room are clean, prepares the necessary instruments and equipment, and performs counts. During surgery, the scrub nurse passes instruments to the surgeons, maintains sterility, monitors the patient's safety, and manages sponges and instruments. After surgery, the scrub nurse undertakes final counts with the circulating nurse, clears equipment, assists with closing, and hands the patient over to recovery.

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    Responsibility and role of 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
     Gives the instrument to the surgeon
     Watch out for hand signals to ask for instruments and keep instrument as clean as
    possible by wiping instrument with moist sponge
     Always remove burned 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
     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

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