Surgical assistant
Position in the organization:
 Officer reports to:

• Healthcare Manager
• Site Manager
• Team leader

Mission Division Perioperative Care and Emergency Care

• Organizing the entire perioperative care chain in such a way that high-quality, effective, and verifiable care is provided.
• Using the knowledge and skills of the specialty of anesthesiology, provide verifiable high-quality care to:
• patients who need to undergo diagnostic and therapeutic procedures requiring sedation, anesthesia, and pain relief
• patients whose vital functions are threatened
• patients with chronic pain, .
•  Innovation: DPAP considers its mission to be successful only when the methods or therapies developed at the UMC are replicated elsewhere (nationally or internationally). Patient care in the selected areas must be thoroughly assessed according to the criteria of evidence-based medicine.

Purpose of the department:
Providing a high level of patient care by ensuring effective cooperation with all disciplines involved in the department.
Purpose of the position:
The surgical assistant is responsible for performing his or her part of patient care and professional care, ensuring quality, safety, and sterility.
Technical care/Patient care.
Final result:
The surgical assistant is able, based on their own professional responsibility, to support the attending physician and other members of the surgical team in a professional manner in order to monitor and optimize the surgical process. In doing so, the interests of the patient must be taken into account.
Core activities.
1. Instrumentation during elective and acute situations.
- Knows the surgical procedures and, by anticipating, enables the surgeon to perform the procedure.
- Has the right instruments, equipment, and tools at their disposal. Is able to anticipate situations efficiently, resulting in the unimpeded progress of the operation.
- Ensures the sterility of sterile supplies.
- Counts instruments and gauze according to protocol so that they are not left behind in the patient.
- Collect and store preparations and the accompanying forms in accordance with protocol.
-Satisfaction of specialists, managers, and colleagues.
2. Assisting during elective and acute situations.
- Knows the surgical procedures and, by anticipating, enables the surgeon to perform the procedure.
- The specialist's assignment is carried out.
- Ensures sterility and sterile supplies.
- Satisfaction of specialists, managers, and colleagues.
3. Detours during elective and acute situations.
- Knows the surgical procedures and, by anticipating, enables the surgeon to perform the procedure.
- Has the right instruments, equipment, and tools at their disposal. Is able to anticipate situations efficiently, resulting in the unimpeded progress of the operation.
- Apply and operate equipment according to protocol
- Is primarily responsible for the sterility of all sterile supplies.
- Collect and store preparations and the accompanying forms in accordance with protocol.
- Counts instruments and gauze according to protocol to ensure that these are not left behind in the patient and takes independent action if necessary. - Takes care of the administration associated with the surgical process.
- Informs and guides guests in the operating room.
-Satisfaction of specialists, managers, and colleagues.
4. Performing medical procedures under the supervision of the specialist.
-Receives instructions from the practitioner and determines the protocol-based approach, independently applying modifications to the protocol in the event of deviating instructions. . .
5. Responsible for the availability and functioning of instruments, equipment, consumables/implants, and operating room inventory.
- Independently checks attendance and performance. Takes action if necessary.
6. Helps position the patient under general/regional/local anesthesia according to protocol.
- Ensures that the patient does not suffer any injuries as a result of incorrect positioning.
7. Represents the interests of the patient before, during, and after surgery.
- Ensures patient privacy and takes action if the patient's interests are harmed.
8. Jointly responsible for training and education in the department.
- Creating a safe learning environment for training as an operating room assistant and circulating nurse, as well as supervising the student.
- Internship supervision of external disciplines
9. Make decisions independently in the absence of managers.
-Monitors the progress of the operational program and, if necessary, makes independent decisions in the event of stagnation.
- Ensures responsible distribution during unexpected situations.
- Consults with surgeons and other disciplines about the timing and sequence of emergency care.
Patient counseling.
Final result:
The surgical assistant is responsible for assisting patients and/or their companions.
Core activities:
1. Supervising and monitoring the patient under local anesthesia.
- Informing the patient as fully as possible about the pre-, peri-, and postoperative process in the correct manner. - Independently monitoring and acting appropriately in response to changes in the patient's physical condition.
2. Supporting the patient with fears and tensions.
- Anticipating the patient's state of mind. - Providing psychosocial support to the patient during treatment.
3. Supporting parents/caregivers of patients.
 - Informing parents/guardians as fully and accurately as possible about the pre-, peri-, and postoperative process.
Innovation:
Final result:
The surgical assistant has broad general knowledge, is familiar with departmental policy, and is actively involved in quality improvement.
Core activities:
1. Staying informed about new developments.
- Knows the new procedures and acts accordingly.
2. Staying informed about departmental policy and contributing to its implementation/development.
-Actively contributes to work and other departmental meetings.
3. Training/further training.
-Attends training and continuing education courses. Shares newly acquired knowledge with colleagues.
4. Quality improvement.
-Makes suggestions or participates in projects to improve quality in the department.
- Creates protocols for the execution of work.
Play area

•  Independently performing the necessary and prescribed procedural actions.
• Independently supervising and monitoring a patient who is being treated under local anesthesia
• Anticipating and improvising independently in response to changing situations during treatment, resulting in the unimpeded progress of the operation.
• Independently checking the availability and functioning of instruments, equipment, consumables/implants, and operating room inventory.
• Making independent decisions in the absence of managers.
•  Independently introduces new procedures.

Contacts
-Patient: explaining nursing procedures with the aim of providing optimal patient care.
-Fellow surgical assistants: Transfer with the aim of achieving efficient and optimal patient care while preventing complications.
- Medical staff: Assistance with medical procedures with the aim of providing optimal medical treatment and preventing medical complications. Receiving relevant nursing and medical information with the aim of ensuring efficient and optimal patient care and preventing complications through the accurate and complete transfer of information.
- Colleagues from other disciplines (anesthesia, perfusion, recovery, etc.): Transfer/information with the aim of achieving efficient and optimal patient care while preventing complications.
- Facilitating departments (radiology, medical photographer, pathology, etc.) Transfer/information with the aim of achieving efficient and optimal patient care while preventing complications.
- Facilitating departments (non-medical): Information about instruments, equipment, and consumables with the aim of achieving innovation, quality improvement, and budget control. - Company representatives: Information about instruments, equipment, and consumables with the aim of achieving innovation, quality improvement, and budget control.
-Students/interns: Teaching practical skills with the aim of ensuring the training program achieves a good end result. - Colleagues/professional peers: Exchanging information about new developments in the field with the aim of staying up to date.
- Family/caregivers: Providing parents/caregivers with accurate and comprehensive information about the pre-, intra-, and postoperative course of the procedure.
Job Requirements:
Training:
Diploma in surgical assistance NZF.
Experience:
 Skills
Ability to work well in a team
Acting decisively in acute situations.
Able to handle emotionally difficult situations
Be able to make decisions independently in the absence of management.
 Good communication skills
Analyze and solve problems
Can transfer knowledge.
Behavioral criteria:
The performance of the surgical assistant is assessed on the following criteria:
Customer-friendliness
Service-oriented attitude
Sensitivity
Flexibility
Initiative
Accuracy
Stress resistance
Deployment
Ability to improvise
 Team Player