Ei Phyo Aung

• 15 years of extensive perioperative nursing experience, including specialised Scrub/Scout experience in cardiothoracic surgery and a broad range of multidisciplinary surgical procedures.
• Exhibited comprehensive knowledge of complex surgical procedures, instrumentation, equipment, implants, and specialized cardiothoracic surgical requirements, enhancing surgical team effectiveness.
• Demonstrates strong clinical judgement, prioritization, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, particularly when managing complex, time-critical, and changing clinical situations.
• Anticipates the needs of the surgical team and ensures appropriate instruments, equipment, supplies, and resources are available to support safe and efficient patient care.
• Ensured high standards of patient safety, infection prevention and control, aseptic technique, surgical counts, and sterile field management throughout procedures, promoting optimal patient outcomes.
• Works collaboratively with surgeons, anesthetic teams, nursing staff, allied health professionals, and other members of the multidisciplinary team to achieve safe and effective patient outcomes.
• Demonstrates flexibility and adaptability when working across different surgical specialties, procedures, teams, equipment, and theater environments.
• Provides clinical support, guidance, and mentorship to less experienced nursing staff and contributes to a positive learning and professional development environment.
• Demonstrates effective leadership, communication, teamwork, and professionalism while working in complex and high-pressure perioperative settings.
• Facilitated quality improvement, risk management, evidence-based practice, and continuous improvement of patient care and theatre operations, driving excellence in clinical practice.

• 14 years of extensive perioperative nursing experience, including specialised Scrub/Scout experience in cardiothoracic surgery and a broad range of multidisciplinary surgical procedures.
• Extensive experience across 39 operating theatres, supporting both elective and emergency procedures within complex and high-pressure clinical environments.
• Experienced in a broad range of complex cardiac, cardiothoracic, and vascular procedures, including coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), valve surgery, aortic surgery, thoracic procedures, TAVI (Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation), and TEVAR (Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair).
• Experienced in heart and lung transplantation, supporting complex transplant procedures and working closely with cardiac and thoracic surgeons, anaesthetists, perfusionists, transplant teams, and multidisciplinary staff.
• Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of specialized cardiac, cardiothoracic, vascular, and transplant instruments, equipment, implants, prosthetic valves, grafts, stents, sutures, and surgical consumables.

Charge Nurse & Clinical Leadership Experience

• Experienced in Charge Nurse responsibilities, coordinating daily operating theatre activities and ensuring safe and efficient allocation of staff, resources, and operating rooms.
• Coordinates multidisciplinary teams and facilitates effective communication between surgeons, anaesthetists, nursing staff, perfusionists, allied health professionals, and other departments.
• Assesses patient acuity, surgical complexity, staff skill mix, and theater requirements when allocating staff and prioritizing operating lists.
• Delegates responsibilities according to individual staff members’ knowledge, skills, experience, and scope of practice, while ensuring appropriate support is available for complex cases.
• Provides clinical leadership and support during complex, emergency, and time-critical procedures, including cardiothoracic, transplant, TAVI, and TEVAR cases.
• Monitors theatre workflow, identifies potential clinical and operational issues, and implements appropriate strategies to maintain patient safety, theatre efficiency, and continuity of care.
• Supports and mentors nursing staff, students, and less experienced team members through clinical guidance, education, role modelling, and feedback.
• Monitors compliance with infection prevention and control, surgical safety, documentation, equipment checks, and organisational policies and procedures.
• Demonstrates strong clinical judgment, prioritization, delegation, problem-solving, and decision-making skills within senior clinical and perioperative leadership roles.
• Contributes to quality improvement, risk management, staff development, evidence-based practice, and continuous improvement of perioperative services.
• Promotes effective teamwork, professional communication, accountability, and a positive workplace culture within complex and high-acuity operating theatre environments.
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