Operating Room Assistant

Responsibilities

• Consistently cleans OR areas according to established OR Policy and Procedures.
• Cleans and prepares OR Rooms between procedures, after terminal cleaning and total cleaning.
• Restocks supplies.
• Consistently removes scrubs, used supplies and extra equipment at the end of the day.
• Maintains hallway free for fire and safety precautions.
• Keeps boxes off of the floor and out of the OR restricted areas.
• Participates in the maintenance of a clean and safe environment at all times.
• Regularly assists with the OR.
• Transports patients according to proper techniques of body mechanics to protect patient and personal safety.
• Demonstrates an awareness and understanding of patient needs for comfort and safety.
• Follows through accurately to provide patients with good nursing care.
• Collects, labels, and transports specimens to the proper area at the appropriate time.
• Always checks labels, type of specimen collected, including patient name and gets signatures.
• Maintains scrub sinks, work sinks, restocks masks, brushes and soap containers.
• Cleans scrub sinks.
• Removes dirty brushes.
• Maintains the OR lounge.
• Empties garbage, takes trays back to kitchen.
• Maintains all OR work area and organizes OR scrubs and laundry.
• Cleans and makes stretchers and beds utilizing universal precautions.
• Places special equipment or positioning devices on beds.
• Stocks and cleans work cart for the day and after hours.
• Maintains warming cabinets stocked with linen.
• Orders supplies as needed.
• Stocks warmer with water and saline.
• Routinely damp dust all furniture, carts in hallway, 9X-ray equipment, arthroscopic equipment.
• Consistently is available and able to assist for patient positioning and transfer.
• Assists in positioning patient for the type of surgery being performed.
• Maintains patient safety by applying the principles of body alignment.
• Correctly identifies patient by name, checks patient name band for correct identification, assures proper name and that band is secure on patient's wrist.
• Regularly provides patients with clean linen and makes or straightens beds.
• Assists and supports all members of the health care team as needed in the performance of patient care and safety.
• Orders supplies when necessary from materials, receives items delivered and put in proper location.
• Disposes of needle buckets utilizing universal precautions - temperature and humidity logs, eye wash stations.

Qualifications

• Read and speak conversational English.
• High school diploma and on-the-job training.
• Minimum Experience: six months
• Desired Working Conditions: Manual: Little or no manual skills/motor coord & finger dexterity Occupational: Significant occupational risk Physical Effort: Very Heavy effort. May exert up to 50 lbs. force Physical Environment: Significant exposure to dirt, odors, noise, human waste, etc.