Peri-operative Tech Specialist
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Remove boilerplate, navigation, legal, EEO, etc. Preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse the posting.
Key content:
- Introduction: "Welcome! We’re excited you’re considering an opportunity with us! To apply..." That's application instruction, should be removed.
- "Below, you’ll find other important information about this position." Not needed.
- Description: "This position performs preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative support activities to assist the nursing team caring for surgical/procedural patients which may include total care within scope of practice (stable patient’s vital signs, activities of daily living, promotion of comfort) and the performance of point of care tests. Reports changes in patient’s condition to a RN. Includes assisting personnel in obtaining supplies, instruments, and equipment for surgical/procedural cases."
That's about the role.
- Minimum Qualifications: EDUCATION, CERTIFICATION, AND/OR LICENSURE: High School diploma or equivalent. Obtain certification in Basic Life Support or HeartSaver First Aid within 30 days of hire date. To be completed as established by department: (Administered at Department level) Successful completion of departmental clinical support or PCS orientation.
- Experience PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: Prior patient care experience. CNA or MA experience.
- CORE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: long list.
- PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: list.
- WORKING ENVIRONMENT: description.
- Skills And Abilities: bullet list.
- Additional Job Description: Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Exempt/Non-Exempt Shift: United States of America (Non-Exempt) Company GMH Grant Memorial Hospital Cost Center 72 GMH Operating Room Address 117 Hospital Drive Petersburg West Virginia
- EEO boilerplate: remove.
We need sections: About the role (maybe summary), Responsibilities (core duties), Requirements (minimum qualifications?), Qualifications (preferred?), Skills (skills and abilities), Benefits (none), Pay (none), Schedule (scheduled weekly hours 40, shift info). Also maybe Working Environment could be part of Responsibilities or separate? But we only have allowed headings; we could put Working Environment under Responsibilities or maybe under a generic section? Not allowed. We could incorporate into Responsibilities or maybe under "About the role". The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we can combine.
We need to include Pay and Schedule only if posting actually states them. It states Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Exempt/Non-Exempt Shift: United States of America (Non-Exempt). That's schedule info. So we can include a Schedule section with that.
Pay: not mentioned, so omit.
Benefits: not mentioned, omit.
Thus sections: About the role (summary), Responsibilities (core duties), Requirements (minimum qualifications + maybe physical requirements?), Qualifications (preferred qualifications), Skills (skills and abilities), Schedule (weekly hours, shift). Could also include Working Environment as part of Responsibilities or About.
We need to use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose.
We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep details like specific tasks, physical requirements, etc.
We need to avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We need to remove duplicated lines.
Let's extract substantive content.
About the role: The first paragraph describing role: "This position performs preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative support activities to assist the nursing team caring for surgical/procedural patients which may include total care within scope of practice (stable patient’s vital signs, activities of daily living, promotion of comfort) and the performance of point of care tests. Reports changes in patient’s condition to a RN. Includes assisting personnel in obtaining supplies, instruments, and equipment for surgical/procedural cases."
That's prose; we can put in
.
Responsibilities: The CORE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES list. It's long; we need to convert each sentence into
- . Must preserve all details. We'll need to split by sentences (they are separated by periods). We'll need to ensure we keep all details.
Let's list them:
- Utilizes appropriate aseptic technique to open sterile supplies for patient use or for sterile field; performs shave preps; and holds extremities during surgical or procedural preps.
- Cleans and prepared work area for next patient and shift.
- Transports patients to and from various areas.
- Cleans transport devices.
- Assists with patient transfers and positioning.
- Retrieves/cleans patient care equipment.
- Runs errands as directed in timely manner.
- Reviews stocking lists, preference cards, and supply carts to ensure/acquire supplies, instruments, and equipment are available for patient care use.
- Assists in the maintenance of inventory control system.
- Maintains effective inventory control system including the daily stocking, checks for outdates (includes removal, discard, or reprocessing following established guidelines), and monitoring of level of supplies (i.e., case cart, trauma cart, suture packs) on supply/specialty carts/rooms.
- Places or returns supplies, instrumentation, and equipment to designated storage locations.
- Places unused sterile instrumentation and soft goods back in the appropriate location when being returned from Perioperative Services, HVI, or Children’s Hospital.
- Assists in maintaining a clean, sanitary, and safe work environment in procedural areas and SPD through the maintenance of egress corridors by monitoring halls keeping them free of extra equipment allowing for easy equipment transportation; organization and cleaning of work areas, storerooms, patient bays, computers, and monitors; performance of post-case /post-care cleaning following established policies; performance of terminal and isolation cleaning if necessary including the daily/weekly cleaning of mobile fluid-waste equipment; cleaning/stocking of scrub sinks/housekeeping carts; weekly warmer cleaning with logged documentation; and cleaning of autoclaves as assigned.
- Processes instruments/scopes when requested as the need arises.
- Prepares various cleaning solutions used in the decontamination of instruments, equipment, and rooms.
- Operates processing and cleaning equipment (i.e., washer/sterilizer or immediate use sterilizer known as IUS, and various other cleaning apparatus in OR, Sterile Processing, and other designated areas following established policies.
- Documents in designated log books completion of cleaning tasks.
- Wraps instruments and supplies for sterilization labeling appropriately with color appropriate labels.
- May be assigned the task of preparing/processing OR linen and sterile packs.
- Documents appropriately to foster the work of the department.
- Duties can include the obtainment and recording of patient weight, temperature, pulse, respirations, BP, intakes/outputs, and abdominal girths as directed by the nursing staff.
- Transports specimens and records specimen delivery to lab or in designated log books.
- Add fixative to specimens when needed.
- Provides respiratory support by properly setting up equipment needed for oxygen administration including the changing of tank regulators and checking of tank volumes.
- Follows all departmental policies and procedures including the reporting of equipment/room repairs to appropriate persons in a timely manner.
- Performs tagging of equipment and putting in Biomed ticket for repair.
- Assists in routine unit operations as directed/needed to ensure smooth communication and functioning of the unit.
- Relays accurate telephone, visitor, patient, and healthcare provider messages to appropriate persons in a timely manner.
- Transports linens, trash, and biohazardous case carts/materials according to established policies wearing PPE and ensuring correct signage is in place prior to transport.
- Assists with room or bay set-up.
- May monitor sterile field set-up when directed by registered nurse.
- Assists team by performing tasks such as answering telephone and minor clerical duties in designated area.
- Transports non-narcotic medications when directed by registered nurse.
- PCS may transport patient with a PCA/Epidural pump.
- Cleans autoclaves in Sterile Processing and Operating Room/Procedural Areas.
- Cleans and organizes Sterile Processing areas as assigned.
- Cleans washers, cart washer, dryers, shelving, and other equipment as assigned in accordance with Manufacturer’s recommendation and departmental policy.
- Processes instruments between cases (wash and sterilize by heat or cold sterilization) as the need arises.
- Maintains orderliness and cleanliness of various equipment and supplies in designated areas.
- Monitors halls keeping them free of extra equipment allowing for easy equipment transportation.
That's a lot. We'll keep them as list items.
Requirements: Minimum Qualifications: EDUCATION, CERTIFICATION, AND/OR LICENSURE: High School diploma or equivalent. Obtain certification in Basic Life Support or HeartSaver First Aid within 30 days of hire date. To be completed as established by department: (Administered at Department level) Successful completion of departmental clinical support or PCS orientation.
Also maybe physical requirements? Could be part of Requirements. We'll include physical requirements as part of Requirements (since they are requirements). We'll list them as list items.
Physical requirements list:
- Must be physically capable of prolonged periods of standing and walking.
- No known history or malignant hyperthermia (may not be waived).
- Must be capable of lifting up to 60 pounds and pushing heavy loaded carts weighing more than 200 pounds.
- Able to transport patients on stretchers, in wheelchairs, or in cribs
- Must be able to discern and distinguish colors for point of care testing and inventory monitoring.
- Must possess visual and hearing acuity along with manual dexterity and technical ability.
- Demonstrates ability to utilize PPE.
We'll keep as
- .
Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications: Prior patient care experience. CNA or MA experience.
Skills: Skills And Abilities list:
- Must understand and practice excellent personal hygiene
- Must be able to operate computer program with training.
- Must have ability to follow directions both written and verbal (i.e., proficient reading and writing English language), and work with people.
- Demonstrates team-building communications and work efforts to assist healthcare providers.
- Demonstrates skills needed to utilize Safe Patient Handling equipment
We'll list as
- .
Schedule: Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Exempt/Non-Exempt Shift: United States of America (Non-Exempt). Also Company etc. But schedule section should contain schedule info: weekly hours 40, shift (Non-Exempt). We'll include that as
maybe.
We also have company info etc but not needed for sections; could be omitted as metadata. The instruction: "do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it." So we could include a short
for company info maybe but not required. Better to drop it as not substantive for role? It's minor metadata; we could drop. The instruction says preserve ALL substantive information; company name maybe not substantive for the role? It's maybe not needed. We'll drop.
Thus output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Schedule.
We'll use
for each heading.
We'll wrap each section's content in appropriate tags: after , we can have
for prose or
- for lists.
For About the role: prose ->
.
For Responsibilities: list ->
- each.
For Requirements: we have two subparts: education/certification (prose) and physical requirements (list). Could combine into one list? Better to have prose for education/certification and list for physical requirements. We'll do:
for education/certification, then
- for physical.
For Qualifications: list ->
- .
For Skills: list ->
- .
For Schedule: prose ->
.
Make sure no extra whitespace? It's fine.
Let's craft.
Check for any duplicated lines:
for prose. We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep details like specific tasks, physical requirements, etc. We need to avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We need to remove duplicated lines. Let's extract substantive content. About the role: The first paragraph describing role: "This position performs preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative support activities to assist the nursing team caring for surgical/procedural patients which may include total care within scope of practice (stable patient’s vital signs, activities of daily living, promotion of comfort) and the performance of point of care tests. Reports changes in patient’s condition to a RN. Includes assisting personnel in obtaining supplies, instruments, and equipment for surgical/procedural cases." That's prose; we can put in
. Responsibilities: The CORE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES list. It's long; we need to convert each sentence into
maybe. We also have company info etc but not needed for sections; could be omitted as metadata. The instruction: "do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it." So we could include a short
for company info maybe but not required. Better to drop it as not substantive for role? It's minor metadata; we could drop. The instruction says preserve ALL substantive information; company name maybe not substantive for the role? It's maybe not needed. We'll drop. Thus output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Schedule. We'll use
for each heading.
We'll wrap each section's content in appropriate tags: after , we can have
for prose or
- for lists.
For About the role: prose ->
. For Responsibilities: list ->
- each.
For Requirements: we have two subparts: education/certification (prose) and physical requirements (list). Could combine into one list? Better to have prose for education/certification and list for physical requirements. We'll do:
for education/certification, then
- for physical.
For Qualifications: list ->
- .
For Skills: list ->
- .
For Schedule: prose ->
. Make sure no extra whitespace? It's fine. Let's craft. Check for any duplicated lines:
- .
For Schedule: prose ->
- .
For Skills: list ->
- for physical.
For Qualifications: list ->
- each.
For Requirements: we have two subparts: education/certification (prose) and physical requirements (list). Could combine into one list? Better to have prose for education/certification and list for physical requirements. We'll do: