Patient Care Tech - Operating Room - Rotating

VCU Health•Richmond, VA

7d•Onsite

About The Position

The Patient Care Technician - OR provides direct, age-specific care to a patient or group of patients based on medical orders and the plan of care under the direction of the RN or licensed independent practitioner. This role involves providing safe and direct care to patients in their assigned unit, monitoring their conditions, and updating the healthcare team. The technician assists with patient transfers and positioning in the OR, and ensures the assigned clinical location is safe, clean, and stocked. They contribute to efficient patient care by preparing supplies and equipment, transporting items, and opening sterile supplies. The role also includes completing daily safety checklists, contributing to the patient experience by observing safety goals and reporting patient responses, attending mandatory training, and ensuring patient safety in all job functions. Establishing and maintaining courteous and effective rapport with patients, visitors, co-workers, and the healthcare team is essential. Additional duties may include donning sterile gown and gloves, holding extremities, passing sutures, assisting with breakdown of the sterile field, and operating laser and other specialty equipment under the direction of the RN.

Requirements

High School Degree or equivalent
AHA BLS HCP Certification or equivalent
Certification/Completion of one of the following: Certified Nursing Assistant, Medical Assistant, Emergency Medical Technician, Military Corpsmen/Medic, Nursing Aide Training Program
Experience within a healthcare environment
OR Completion of foundations/ clinical nursing course and one clinical rotation.
Ability to provide safe, compassionate care
Accountability for completion of assigned tasks
Ability to wear personal protective equipment as needed
Cultural Responsiveness: Demonstrates a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through continuous development, modeling inclusive behaviors, and proactively managing bias
Perform shift work
Maneuver weight of patients
Hear alarms/telephone/tape recorder
Reach above shoulder
Repetitive arm/hand movements
Finger Dexterity
Strong Recall
Reasoning
Problem Solving
Hearing
Speak Clearly
Write Legibly
Reading
Logical Thinking

Nice To Haves

Certified Nursing Assistant
Procedural or Operating Room experience as a nursing assistant or aide experience

Responsibilities

Provide safe and direct care to patients in their assigned unit making age-appropriate adjustments as needed.
Monitor patients’ conditions and provide updates to the health care team.
Provide direct and indirect care to patients with and without medical/surgical complications to meet their comfort, personal hygiene, and safety needs.
Assist with the transfer of patient in the OR under the direction of anesthesia and/or nursing staff.
Assist in positioning and prep of the patient under the direction of a Registered Nurse.
Provide care in accordance with nursing and medical plans of care and deliver per VCUHS Nursing and Hospital policy and procedure.
Ensure assigned clinical location is maintained as a safe, clean, stocked environment to facilitate meeting patient needs and unit/healthcare team functioning.
Maintain supplies, educational material, equipment, sterilization of supplies, instruments, and the environment to promote quality, safe patient care outcomes (as applicable).
Contribute to efficient patient care to include, but not limited to, preparing all necessary supplies, suture, and equipment for cases based on surgeon preference cards, transporting dirty case carts/instrumentation to Sterile Processing or HLD as applicable, and opening sterile supplies for cases.
Complete daily safety checklists for the assigned areas to include, but not limited to, all emergency resuscitation/code carts, emergency supply carts, and scope cabinets.
Contribute to the patient experience by accurately identifying the patient, by observing safety goals and reporting to a licensed independent practitioner, manager and/or Registered Nurses regarding the patient’s physical and mental responses to the plan of care or any incident posing harm or threat to a patient.
Attend all mandatory in-services and trainings and adhere to online training requirements.
Ensure patient safety in the performance of job functions and through participation in hospital, department, or unit patient safety initiatives.
Establish and maintain courteous and effective rapport with patients, visitors, co-workers, and other members of health care team; demonstrate sensitivity and awareness to needs of patients, visitors and co-workers and respond promptly to verbal and/or written instructions.
Don sterile gown and gloves to hold an extremity during a procedure.
Pass sutures during wound closure.
Hold retractors during the procedure under the direction of the surgical technologist, the attending surgeon and or the RN.
Assist with breakdown of the sterile field to include management of reusable instruments according to policy under the direction of the surgical tech and/or RN.
Operate laser and other designated specialty equipment under the direction of the RN.