Pre Admissions Nurse
Core
Coordinate and deliver pre-operative care, ensuring patients are clinically prepared, informed, and ready for surgery while supporting efficient theatre operations.
Role type
Pre-operative nurse (IC)
Builds
Surgical theatre operations
Domain
Healthcare / Anaesthetics and Recovery
Deliverable
physical/clinical work
Required skills
Pre-operative assessment, patient triage, consent verification, medication administration, vital signs monitoring, patient education, surgical site preparation, patient flow coordination
Preferred skills
Anaesthetic and/or Recovery experience, call availability
Technologies
None stated
Responsibilities
Admitting patients on the day of their procedure, completing pre-operative assessments and health checks, confirming medical history and medications, ensuring consent forms are complete, taking observations, preparing patients for surgery, providing information and reassurance to patients and families, liaising with surgeons and theatre staff, coordinating patient flow
Seniority
Mid-level, hands-on IC