Job Description

This position is ECB status – requires a minimum number of worked hours per month as needed by the department; limited benefit offerings.

The Surgery Assistant transports patients to operating rooms, assists surgeons and circulating nurses with patient positioning. This role performs environmental tasks including cleaning the operating rooms and equipment; and ensures supplies are stocked.

Minimum Education: None. High School diploma, or GED, preferred.

Licensure, Registration and/or Certification: None.

Work Experience: None.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Knowledge of Microsoft 365 and other applicable software. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal that present clear and concise information. Ability to utilize critical thinking skills. Ability to demonstrate a strong sense of personal accountability. Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple priorities with competing deadlines. Sound ability to maintain professional and courteous and demonstrate flexibility and adaptability in adynamic work environment.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities: Performs independent procedural tasks such as transporting patients while ensuring patient safety. Assists with patient positioning and prep in a manner that demonstrates knowledge and ensures patient safety, skin integrity and sterile technique. Assists the surgical team utilizing knowledge of sterile technique to hold retractors and cameras as directed by the surgeon. Performs environmental activities to maintain a clean and orderly surgical suite. Identifies correct patient to verify specific information utilizing strong interpersonal skills and abilities. Ensures supplies are stocked and sterile. Assists with maintaining a sterile environment.

Decision Making: Independent judgment in making minor decisions where alternatives are limited and standard policies/protocols have been established.

Working Relationships: Works directly with patients and/or customers. Works with internal and/or external customers via telephone or face to face interaction. Works with other healthcare professionals and staff.

Special Job Dimensions: None.

Supplemental Information: This document generally describes the essential functions of the job and the physical demands required to perform the job. This compilation of essential functions and physical demands is not all inclusive nor does it prohibit the assignment of additional duties.

Surgery - Yale Campus

Location:

Tulsa, Oklahoma 74136Under the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Use and Patient Protection Act (OMMA), a safety sensitive position is defined as any job that includes tasks or duties that the employer believes could affect the safety and health of the employee performing the task or others. This position has been identified as a safety sensitive position. This statute allows employers to lawfully refuse to hire applicants for safety-sensitive jobs or to discipline or discharge employees who work in safety-sensitive jobs if they test positive for marijuana, even if they have a valid license to use medical marijuana.