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GOALS

The Western Visayas State University Medical Center aims to have an innovative, state of the art facility that caters the needs of any operative procedure in order to provide an amiable time from pre-operation to post operation duration. Its team is all professionals with excellent work ethics in providing the best management to patients’ care.

OBJECTIVES

The Operating Room Unit aims:

• To have high technology equipment as possible to attain the best cure the department may give.
• To have well sterile amenity for the safety of the patient being cured.
• To have the best specialized work forced that deals their jobs, not only professionally, but with sincerity.

FUNCTIONS

The Operating Room Unit has the following functions:

• Each team member must be licensed RNs, MDs and etc.
• The assigned RN must help the surgeon directly by controlling bleeding, exposing the wound or suturing, or scrub nurses who handle dressings, instruments and other items.
• Both RN first assistants and scrub nurses work within the sterile field – the area that must be keep sterile to prevent infection.
• The circulating nurse, however works, outside the sterile field and has many different duties.
• Basic expectations for all perioperative nurses include the understanding of the principles of surgical aseptic techniques during an operation to prevent infection.
• In surgery, the perioperative nurse should know what tools to use and how to handle them correctly.
• Each member must also know how to operate specialized equipment used in the operating room and how to position a patient to prevent complications, such us skin breakdown.
• Perioperative nurses are called on to assess patient physical, emotional and spiritual needs.