Operating Room Assistant-Atrium Health Pineville PT
Operating Room Assistant-Atrium Health Pineville PT
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Job Description
Job Summary
Assists the surgical team by performing direct and indirect patient care duties.
Essential Functions
- Makes recommendations for increasing and decreasing PAR levels and deletion of items.
- Ensures that supplies are handled stored and maintained in a secure environment.
- Performs daily and terminal cleaning of OR supply areas ORs and all lounges including male and female locker rooms and restrooms all hallways storage areas and substerile areas at facilities where these duties are not completed by Environmental Services.
- Assists with positioning of patient. Responsible for operation of patient positioning equipment.
- Performs room turnover to include moving patients from operating room table to stretcher or bed as well as trash and linen removal mopping floors and cleaning furniture.
- Stocks supplies to include mask caps shoe covers soap dispensers and scrub brushes.
- Fills blanket and fluid warmers and stocks substerile areas with specimen cups suction attachments and containers.
- Assists with orientation of operating room assistants.
Physical Requirements
Must have the use of both hands and all fingers for gripping speed work and precision during the manipulation of equipment and in the case of the surgery patient. Vision and hearing for distances of up to twenty feet is necessary. Must have depth perception and ability to distinguish basic colors. Requires frequent long or irregular work hours rotating shifts walking on hard surfaces being near moving equipment changes in temperature humidity and exposure to Blood Borne Pathogens. Works inside with occasional intermittent noise and exposure to conditions such as dust fumes and chemicals. Handles equipment and monitoring supplies. Communication skills both oral and written to interact with patients and hospital staff is required. Strenuous physical effort will require walking stretching bending climbing stairs twisting squatting or kneeling in moving/positioning the anesthetized patient by lifting pushing and pulling. Must be able to lift and support the weight of 51 pounds in handling patients and clinical equipment/supplies.
Education Experience and Certifications.
High School Diploma or GED preferred. 1 year of experience as an Operating Room Assistant I required. BLS required per policy guidelineswithin 90 days of hire.
Employment Type
Part-Time
