Respiratory Supply Intern | LeBonheur | PRN | Days & Evenings

About the role

We strive to be an employer of choice and establish a reputation for being a talent rich organization where Associates can grow their career caring for others. For over a century, we've served the health care needs of the people of Memphis and the Mid-South.

Responsibilities

• Provides all areas of assigned facility with equipment/supplies necessary for optimal patient care.
• Maintains inventory and delivers appropriate equipment/supplies to necessary departments/areas of the hospital to adequately utilize all resources.
• Models appropriate behavior as exemplified in MLH Mission, Vision and Values.
• Maintains PAR levels to ensure that adequate inventory of sterile and unsterile supplies are readily available.
• Fills inventory supply requisitions and delivers supplies.
• Processes returned items appropriately.
• Understands, applies, and supports departmental/hospital policies, procedures and standards.
• Performs general housekeeping functions.
• Maintains hospital, DNV and other quality control standards with subsequent records of sterilization procedures.
• Ensures safe operation of equipment.
• Maintains equipment and work area.
• Recognizes and reacts appropriately to environmental safety factors.
• Performs quality control checks.

Requirements

• Currently enrolled in a college program
• BASIC LIFE SUPPORT - American Heart Association

Qualifications

• Ability to understand moderately complex written materials, such as patient records.
• Ability to communicate verbally with Associates, Physicians, and other outside professionals.
• Ability to organize multiple tasks and projects while maintaining control of workflow.
• Ability to perform technical skills as required with disassembly/re-assembly of equipment/supplies.
• Ability to understand principles and implement basic procedures of infection control and aseptic technique.
• Ability to work without close supervision and exercise initiative and independent judgment once technical training has been completed.
• Ability to respond appropriately to emergency or critical situations.
• Ability to communicate verbally with patients and families in a professional manner.
• Must be competent to perform all job functions by the end of orientation.

Skills

• Good balance and coordination.
• Physical demands include climbing, pushing, standing, hearing, walking, reaching, grasping, kneeling, stooping, and repetitive motion.
• Exposure to patient body fluids.
• Physical requirements are heavy work - exerting up to 100 lbs. of force occasionally and/or up to 50 lbs. of force frequently.
• Close visual acuity to prepare and analyze data and figures, transcribe, view a computer terminal, or read.

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Schedule

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