PER DIEM Surgical Care Assistant - PACU - Mount Sinai Hospital

Mount Sinai Health System•New York, NY

2h•Onsite

About The Position

The Surgical Care Assistant supports the functioning of the Operating Room, Post Anesthesia Care Unit, and Preoperative Services. The role maintains clinical support and storage areas, keeps surgical supplies and equipment stocked and organized, transports patients, specimens, blood products, and supplies, and assists the scrub person and circulator with room preparation, turnover, cleaning, and patient positioning.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent.

Nice To Haves

Previous experience in a healthcare setting.

Responsibilities

Replenish and organize scrub-area supplies, and maintain clean shelves, counters, and utility carts.
Check and record medication and nourishment refrigerator temperatures daily; check blood bank and drug refrigerators daily; and defrost and thoroughly clean refrigerators weekly.
Replenish blankets, gowns, sheets, and solutions in warmer cabinets, and clean warmer cabinets daily.
Distribute processed instrument sets, equipment, and supplies to appropriate work and storage areas; keep containers and storage areas orderly; clean shelves weekly or as needed; maintain and change gas cylinders; and keep counters and work areas clean.
Monitor par levels and replenish special surgical equipment, instruments, and supplies; ensure each operating room has a Surgicounter on the dock and clean it during room turnover.
Maintain clean and orderly soiled utility rooms and replenish specimen containers, disinfecting solutions, plastic bags, and cleaning supplies.
Dust storage shelves for unsterile linen as needed and distribute, fold, and arrange patient gowns, blankets, sheets, and wrappers across storage areas.
Maintain stock-room, equipment-room, and other storage areas; distribute supplies from General Stores and pharmacy deliveries; secure compressed-gas tanks using approved methods; and maintain preparation supplies for assigned rooms.
Document routine specimens in the marble book and log book when they leave the specialty area.
Take frozen-section specimens immediately to Pathology, stamp the pathology form, and notify the pathologist.
Transport specimens to Radiology for X-ray and then to Pathology for frozen section when required.
Transport pre-operative patients to holding areas or surgical suites, take patients from holding to the assigned operating room, assist with moving and positioning patients and patient safety, provide a recovery-room bed with oxygen for each patient, and move post-operative patients to the appropriate area.
Ensure appropriate patient-transport equipment is available; transport blood and blood products, as directed by a surgical team member, and take blood and other STAT specimens to the appropriate laboratory or send them via the pneumatic system as directed.
Clean stretchers with the appropriate solution and change linen after each patient transport; clean all stretcher parts, including the base and wheels, weekly; keep stretcher equipment complete and in good working order; and report repair needs.
Provide transport equipment such as a stretcher, wheelchair, or bariatric bed according to patient needs and direction from the surgical team.
Help maintain cleanliness in operating rooms and their environment, including operating-room bathrooms; assist the scrub person and circulator with room turnover; clean positioning equipment and return it to storage; and clean operating rooms after procedures according to protocol.
Help the scrub person and circulator gather and set up supplies and equipment; place required furniture and equipment in the operating room; set up suction canisters and tubing; assist as directed with electrocautery, video, laser, and other equipment; and retrieve positioning equipment and assist with patient positioning.