Demonstrates proper telephone etiquette. Verifies understanding of information received. Responds appropriately to customer requests
Schedules surgical cases and PAT appointments accurately.
Communicates schedule conflicts with all MD/office staff involved.
Prepares and delivers daily surgery schedule.
Responsible for turnover of rooms when on call. Demonstrates understanding and indications of cleaning solutions and required contact time.
Prepares stretchers / beds for postoperative transport.
Assists in transferring / positioning patients under direct supervision. Holds limbs for surgical prep under direct supervision of the RN when aseptic technique is not required.
Obtains necessary equipment and positioning supplies needed for cases and Assures all scheduled cases have complete case carts.
Checks, cleans and restocks surgical suites, sterile rooms and ancillary rooms. Returns equipment and supplies to appropriate location.
Checks and restocks blanket warmers and fluid warmers. Monitors and records temperatures for all refrigerators and fluid warmers in the department and reports problems.
Handles laboratory specimens correctly. Transports blood and other products from the lab to the OR suites.
Terminally disinfects ultrasound probe.
Responsible for on-call coverage.
High School Diploma or G.E.D required.
EXPERIENCE: None required
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
