Job Description

Functions 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 Functions

Job 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 Detail

The 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).