Job DescriptionJob DescriptionFunctions as Scrub Assistant. Sets up tables and prepares room for obstetric procedures. Ensures sufficient sterile supplies and instruments on the Unit. Performs transport duties.Job Responsibility
- * General Responsibilities:
- Functions as a Scrub Assistant under the Supervision of an RN.
- Sets-up operating room tray, arranging instruments, sponges, sutures, and dressings.
- Assists surgical team during surgery by passing instruments, sponges, and dressings.
- Participates as a member of the nursing team.Assists RN's in the orientation of new staff to scrub position.
- Reports pertinent events during the course of the shift's activity (i.e., equipment, supplies.)
- Performs as an interdepartmental messenger, as needed
- Answers phones and transports patients by wheelchair and stretcher.
- Delivery Room Assignments:
- Appropriately utilizes aseptic techniques.Identifies and observes breaks in aseptic technique and reports to RN.Surgically scrubs for OBS and GYN procedures.
- Sets-up tables and prepares room for OBS procedures in LDR's and delivery rooms.
- Prepares patient for delivery in LDR's.
- Cleans instruments and equipment to be returned to CSR for sterilizing(As needed, wraps and label instruments before sterilization.) Check all sterile equipment for expiration dates.
- Ensures sufficient sterile supplies and instruments on the unit to meet the needs of the shift
- Transports stillborn to the morgue, as required.
- Strips patients' beds and prepares beds, stretchers and delivery tables for new admissions.Make beds stretchers and delivery tables, as needed by shift.
- * Patient Care Assignments:
- Receives patient report and assignment from RN in charge.
- Makes rounds on assigned post partum patients.
- Ensures patient's environment is safe and clean.
- Answers call lights for post partum patients, as necessary.
- Offers oral hygiene to patients, clears overbed tables and prepares patients for meals.
- Takes temperatures, as directed.
- Prepares patient for transport, when needed.
- For bed bound patients; bed pan, turn and position when necessary.
- Make rounds to assure all patients are clean and dry.
- Place utensils and supplies in bedside stands, as needed.(i.e., discharged patients and transfers.)
- For new admissions; orients patient, assists patient to undress, obtains specimens, and takes temperature, pulse, resp, weight and height.
- Assists with examinations and procedures, as necessary.
- Administers enemas, perform abdominal and perineal shave, as directed.
- Assists with output measurements.
- Assists patients with personal hygiene; administers pericare.
- Provides baby care, as needed.
- Identifies and observes changes in patient status and reports to RN.
- Performs point of care blood glucose testing.
- Provides customer service for patients' families and visitors.
- * Environmental Responsibilities:
- Stocks labor and Delivery area daily, as directed.
- Supplies admitting rooms with OB Admission Packs and other needed supplies (monitor paper, belts,speculums, etc.).
- Makes unoccupied beds and stretchers and assures that there is a pillow for each bed.
- Maintains non-patient areas in neat and orderly condition.
- Assures rolling equipment is clean.
- Reports missing or damaged equipment.Report shortages to RNs.
- Defrosts and cleans refrigerators.
- Cleans closet, drawers and equipment.
- Cleans infant transporter after each patient use.
- Performs related duties, as required.
*ADA Essential FunctionsJob Qualification
- High School Diploma or equivalent, required. Associate's Degree in Operating Room Technology, preferred.
- Completion of an accredited Operating Room Technician Training Program, required.
- Successful completion from a nationally accredited educational program for surgical technologist, and holds and maintains a certified surgical technologist (CST) credential administered by the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (NBSTSA), required.*a person may be employed or contracted with to practice surgical technology during the 12-month period immediately following successful completion of a surgical technology program, but may not continue to be employed beyond that period without documentation that the employee holds and maintains a certified surgical technologist credential required.
- Must be and remain in good standing with NYS regulations, required.
*Additional Salary DetailThe salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).