OR Assistant

Brown Medicine•Cranston, RI

4d•$22 - $23•Onsite

About The Position

Under general supervision and according to established policies and procedures, the OR Assistant performs a variety of non-medical duties in support of Surgical Services. Duties include transporting patients to and from the Operating Room, moving supplies and materials, assisting with preoperative scrubs and patient positioning, cleaning and preparing surgical equipment, preparing materials for sterilization, maintaining operating rooms, and assembling charge form packets. Employees are expected to model Brown University Health’s values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence, and demonstrate the core Success Factors of instilling trust, valuing differences, focusing on patients and the community, and collaborating.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED preferred.
Ability to recognize changes in a patient’s condition and report them to nursing personnel.
Ability to perform simple numerical calculations to calculate and requisition supplies.
Knowledge of aseptic techniques for cleaning rooms, equipment, and materials.
Knowledge and skills to provide care with consideration of aging processes, human development stages, and cultural patterns.
Ability to read, write, and understand English.
One to three months of on-the-job training and experience.

Responsibilities

Transports patients to and from the surgical suite.
Reviews preoperative patient charts to ensure forms are signed and tests are completed, and reports discrepancies to appropriate nursing personnel.
Helps prepare surgical rooms by checking that basic supplies are available, including blankets, solutions, and syringes.
Cleans furniture and equipment between cases and obtains supplies and equipment needed for specific procedures.
Assists with preparing patients for surgery and preoperative scrubs; lifts, moves, positions, supports, and holds patients as needed, including for spinal anesthesia injections.
Inventories, requisitions, receives, and stocks supplies in established areas, including sterile linen, instruments, and scrub clothes.
Picks up supplies and materials for Surgical Services from hospital areas, including pharmaceuticals, blood, plasma, and routine departmental supplies.
Delivers cultures and surgical specimens to designated hospital areas for analysis.
Cleans and maintains the Operating Room, including washing equipment and stretchers, sorting and stocking supplies, cleaning rooms, and changing light bulbs.
Cleans, dries, packages, and seals materials for sterilization; washes, assembles, and wraps basin sets, and occasionally operates steam/water pressure sterilizers.
Assembles patient record packs of charge slips appropriate to specific surgical procedures for completion by others.