Or Assistant, Part-Time, Rotating

Job Description
Schedule:
Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday 3pm-11:
30pm, and Saturday 7am-3:
30pm;
32hours per week, rotating position withOR call requirements.
The OR Assistant reflects the mission, vision, and values of NM, adheres to the organization’s Code of Ethics and Corporate Compliance Program, and complies with all relevant policies, procedures, guidelines and all other regulatory and accreditation standards.
As a member of the surgical team, this role provides support services to the surgical patient, and OR team. The ORA is responsible for transporting patients post-operatively from the recovery room to Same Day Surgery and direct from the OR to nursing units as assigned. The ORA is responsible for additional functions including assisting in general cleaning, movement of equipment, specimen and blood products transport and assisting with patient care. This position promotes efficiency in the operating room for our surgical patients and the OR team.
Responsibilities:
Surgical Specimens &
Blood Products:
Transports specimens from OR to universal tube system and tubes to appropriate location
Logs each surgical pathology specimen into pathology log book recording time transported and initials
Responsible for specimen service requests sent by means of specimen pager in Feinberg OR
Responds to specimen pick-up requests immediately
Faxitron specimens are picked up from the OR and walked to radiology immediately for processing
Performs daily specimen reconciliation with pathology staff and reports for quality management
Receives blood products via universal tube system and direct from blood bank and places in blood refrigerator and delivers to OR suite as directed adhering to our reconciliation communication process
Picks up and returns blood refrigerator to and from blood bank as directed
Walks all surgical pathology tissue specimens direct from OR to path lab
Logs in book and performs handoff.
CSS Responsibilities:
Transports soiled case carts to soiled lift and sends to CSS for re-sterilization
Operates clean case cart lift and removes clean case carts and instruments and delivers to appropriate OR suites.
Surgical Patient &
Belongings Transport:
Transports surgical patients
Assists in OR with patient lifting, positioning, and transfer as directed by nursing staff
Delivers SDS patient belongings to correct patient in recovery room and to nursing units as necessary.
Equipment/Supplies:
Transports lasers, microscopes, and other OR equipment from storage areas, down multiple corridors to the appropriate OR suite and returns to equipment storage when no longer needed
Obtains supplies from warehouse pod cart and delivers to OR rooms
Consistently and frequently refills warmers with blankets and irrigation solutions to maintain supply
Replenishes scrub brushes, masks, and goggles as needed to maintain supply
Exchanges empty O2 tanks to full tanks as necessary on all patient stretchers and beds when below 1-PSI
Moves clean total joint/bariatric/clinitron and specialty beds from various locations and places outside of OR suites intra-operatively as directed and notifies control desk coordinator when task completed
Twists, stoops and bends to clean surgical stretchers as needed and thoroughly clean M-W-F
Operates copier and copies 4am surgical schedules as per 4am schedule list
Cleans each patient stretcher as necessary
Performs intra-op linen change on each stretcher outside of operating rooms
Docks Neptune suction machine after each use
Picks-up and returns supplies from other departments as needed
Identifies, isolates, communicates, and documents broken equipment for repair being specific as to identify the malfunction
Inventories/reports/replenishes forms when form levels are low in POD
Places equipment inside and outside of OR suite for next day first cases
Assists in readiness and assembly of surgical supplies and room setup.
Communications:
Demonstrates clear and logical thinking skills
Ability to make good sound patient first decisions
Requires basic reading and writing skills for understanding and documentation purposes
Take and receive directions from CDC and nursing staffs in delivery and promotion of quality services
Demonstrates daily flexibility to perform tasks when interacting with control desk and nursing staffs
Maintains communication link with CDC by communicating completion of assigned tasks, delays, changes, and other pertinent information for relay to OR team
ORA must respond to Expediter "
ORA"
light in timely manner
The ORA will interact and communicate with the ORSC or charge nurse of the POD who will dispense pod specific duties as summarized in this document
Daily breaks and lunches will be assigned based on workflow with input form the ORSC and communicated to the shift RC/manager
The nursing charge person or ORSC will be identified to the ORA by means of the pod grease board and to the department RC on a daily basis
The ORA documents their name and pager number on POD grease board daily.
Pager Responsibilities:
ORA staff must respond immediately when paged
ORA staff pager number and name must be recorded on the grease board in pod area daily by ORA staff.
Other Duties/Responsibilities:
Demonstrates pro-active approach to achieve work completion
Ability to get along with other team members and charge staffs
Assists in the surgical patients pre-operative skin prep
Precepts new employees in the performance of job responsibilities
Adheres to universal tube system standards when operating system and utilizes downtime procedure as necessary
Must be able to walk and stand for entire shift;
ORA supports other podsto promote quality services and productivity
ORA staff assists and initiates between case cleaning when necessary
Maintains a clean and orderly work environment
Upon completion of all rooms in assigned pod, the ORA is to report their availability to the shift RC/manager for re-assignment
ORA records and time stamps all activity performed onto ORA log/trip sheet for each shift worked
This position requires the ORA staff to be on-call
Performs other duties as assigned.
AA/EOE.