Anesthesiology, Blood Pressure, Cleaning Equipment, Communication Skills, Detail Oriented, Emergency Response, Equipment Maintenance/Repair, Establish Priorities, High School Diploma, Hospital, Housekeeping/Cleaning, Laboratory Testing, Materials Management, Nursing, Nursing Management, Patient Administration, Patient Safety, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Recycling, Registered Nurse (RN), Risk Management, Sanitation, Sterilization, Surgical Procedures, Writing Skills
Overview
$5,000 Signing Bonus
Orients and completes the necessary competencies to perform a variety of essential environmental and material management functions that ensure patient safety, reduce the risk of hospital-acquired infections (HAC's), and create safe, clean and sterile work environments for the operating room staff.
Responsibilities
- Masters environmental cleaning processes for all Perioperative areas including procedural and non-procedural spaces, restricted and semi-restricted spaces and all equipment contained therein.
- Performs a variety of specific sterilization duties within the Main Operating Rooms (MOR) and other surgical areas and orients to prepare tables for various specialty procedures.
- Removes clean, unneeded equipment from OR and ensures trash and contaminated linens and instruments are properly handled and sent to appropriate destination.
- Handles blood, tissue, bodily fluids, recyclables and other materials safely.
- Learns to perform "terminal cleaning", an intensive cleaning process, ensuring that MOR spaces are free of infectious materials that cause hospital-acquired infections (HAC's).
- Performs rapid room turnovers using standards of OR sanitation and/or terminal cleaning and prepares OR after room turnover.
- Cleans and maintains other areas of OR on a regularly scheduled basis.
- Ensures that all cleaning equipment is sterile, safe, and properly maintained.
- Reports all faulty equipment to supervisor.
- May be responsible to master floor cleaning and refinishing.
- Shadows Periop Support Techs (PST) in preparing special infusion devices (FMS and Level 1) for trauma and emergent procedures.
- Orients to clean and maintain equipment needed for specialty procedures.
- Learns to maintain nursing specialty carts, nursing sets, all OR and anesthesia supply areas, and suture carts.
- Orients to maintaining and assembling disposable blood pressure monitoring equipment.
- Ensures availability of gas tanks and regulators for safe transfer of patients.
- Maintains supply of personal protective equipment.
- Orients to ensuring proper handling of sharps containers, and soiled linen and trash.
- Under the supervision of a Registered Nurse or Anesthesia provider, learns to position patients for the administration of regional anesthesia and/or surgical procedures, orients to participating in the transfer of patients to stretchers, beds, and/or operating room tables, and learns to perform point of care laboratory testing.
- Performs other duties as required or assigned.
Qualifications
- High school diploma (or GED) strongly preferred.
- Ability to anticipate, prioritize, and coordinate work in a high stress environment (which involves responding to emergency situations and tight schedules) required.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and demonstrates reliability and strong attention to detail.
Required Licensure/Certifications
- NH Medical Technician OR Temporary Medical Technician within 30 days of hire.
- BLS within 30 days of hire.
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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center