Operating Room Attendant

About the role

This role focuses on providing medical and clinical support services to patients. It involves performing Surgical Services duties, including but not limited to, performing procedures like interventional pain management and ensuring a safe environment for patients undergoing invasive procedures or surgery.

Responsibilities

• Assists Environmental Services with room turnover; wiping down and docking Neptune’s, setting up specialized equipment/O.R. tables for next case.
• Transports patients from surgical floors to OR suite or other areas of the hospital, equipment and supplies to and from O.R. and works as a liaison with CPD to ensure delivery of kits and sterile items throughout the surgical case.
• Transports blood products and specimen to and from their respective locations (i.e. Blood Bank, Mammography, Pathology, Cytology).
• Assists in the transfer of a patient from the OR table to the patient's bed under the clinical care team’s guidance.
• Assists team with ensuring the OR table and positioning devices for proper attachments are safely secured and ready to support a patient.
• Assists in positioning of patients for surgical procedures and holds extremities for skin prep.
• Maintains all medical gas tank exchanges in safe manner, monitoring PSI levels on tank gauges, and responding to alarms.
• Responsible for fluid and linen re-stocking and maintenance inside O.R room warmers and fluid carts; labeling with accurate expiration dates and discarding expired fluid.
• Returns unopened case carts, kits, and scopes to Central Processing and may assist Environmental Services with the return of used/dirty case carts to the decontamination area.
• Maintains all biohazard sharps containers; utilizing the soiled utility room to exchange for clean bins when necessary.
• Adheres to JCAHO, CMS, DPH, and HIPAA regulations.
• Maintains collaborative, team relationships with peers and colleagues in order to effectively contribute to the working groups achievement of goals, and to help foster a positive work environment.
• Rotates through procedural units in which they are oriented.
• Assists leadership team with strategic initiatives regarding process improvement efforts, with a focus on safety and efficiency.
• Responds to Vocera calls in a timely manner, and logs in to respective “group” at the start of their shift.
• Complies with on-call requirements and responsibilities, able to clock in for their on-call shift within 45 minutes of being called.
• Demonstrates extensive knowledge and use of specific tables, table accessories, and equipment- and is able to act as a direct resource to the clinical care team providing support with specialized items when needed.
• Completes general maintenance of all linen, trash, and recycling receptacles.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• One (1) year experience working in an operating room or surgical area in a hospital.

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to speak and hear effectively and meet telephone and customer service standards.
• Ability to be flexible with schedule and adhere to the operating room on-call policy.
• Ability to prioritize assignments and tasks at hand.
• Ability to work in a fast paced, highly technical environment.
• Knowledge of different patient positions to assist in Operating Room.
• Knowledge and use of universal precautions, asepsis, and sterile technique.
• Read and write at a level necessary to perform all duties, include accurately maintain written records.
• Basic familiarity with computers and the ability to navigate at a basic level within web-based applications.
• Demonstrates a pro-active customer service orientation.

Pay

The base pay range for this role is $17.00 - $20.77 per hour. Individual offers are determined using a comprehensive approach that considers relevant experience, certifications, education, skills, and internal equity to ensure compensation is fair, consistent, and aligned with our business goals.