Scrub Assistant- PRN, Days, DMH
About The Position
The Scrub Assistant demonstrates Decatur Morgan Hospital’s mission, vision, and values. Under the direct supervision of a licensed nurse, the role performs duties to assist with patient care, including transcribing physician orders; answering and dispatching patient calls; answering and transferring telephone calls; maintaining supply inventories and office equipment; and keeping the nurses station orderly and organized. The position also performs first-scrub procedures in the Delivery OR and assists with vaginal deliveries. The role prepares sterile fields and surgical cases, maintains infection-control and patient-safety practices, identifies instruments and sets, and is knowledgeable about sterilizer equipment and documentation. The Scrub Assistant must be able to scrub various types of cases and take call for emergency cases.
Requirements
- High school graduate or GED.
- Current BLS certification required.
- Ability to understand and retain instructions easily and quickly.
- Ability to use common sense and medical skills to care for the sick.
- Ability to understand technical information from supervisors, charts, reference books, manuals, and labels.
- Ability to use eyes, ears, hands, and fingers with skill.
- Ability to act quickly in emergencies and render appropriate life-saving measures.
- Ability to communicate with people, change duties frequently, follow and/or give precise instructions, and record and interpret information accurately.
- Ability to apply common-sense understanding to written, oral, or diagrammatic instructions and address problems involving several variables in standardized situations.
- Basic arithmetic skills, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and operations with common monetary and measurement units.
- Ability to read and understand instructions and safety rules.
- Ability to speak clearly and confidently using correct English and a well-modulated voice.
- Ability to gather, collect, classify, and report information and communicate with staff, patients, families, and visitors.
- Manual dexterity to use body members or special devices to perform job duties.
Nice To Haves
- Previous experience in a clerical or receptionist position.
- Previous experience in a scrub role.
- Hospital experience and knowledge of medical terminology.
Responsibilities
- Prepare sterile fields with the instruments and supplies required for procedures and pass instruments to the surgeon during procedures.
- Maintain proper technique, infection control, and patient-safety principles.
- Prepare daily surgical cases by pulling cases, stocking rooms, and opening sterile fields.
- Identify instruments and sets used for surgical cases.
- Work efficiently and quickly.
- Use sterilizer equipment and complete related documentation.
- Scrub various types of cases and take call for emergency cases.
- Follow instructions, adapt to change, and remain accountable.
- Transcribe physician orders.
- Answer and dispatch patient calls, answer telephone calls, and transfer calls to appropriate personnel.
- Maintain supply inventories and office equipment, and keep the nurses station orderly and organized.
- Perform first-scrub procedures in the Delivery OR and assist with vaginal deliveries.
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Education Level
High school or GED
