Associate Perioperative Support Technician - OSC

Dartmouth Health • Lebanon, NH

107d

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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.

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.
• Learns to perform point of care laboratory testing.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Ambulatory Health Care Services
• Education Level: High school or GED