Associate Perioperative Support Technician
Company: Dartmouth Health
Location: Lebanon
Posted on: May 8, 2024
Job Description:
Overview$2500 Bonus Available 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.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, and learns to perform point of care
laboratory testing.
- Performs other duties as required or
assigned.Qualifications
- 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.Required Licensure/Certifications- Must
obtain BLS Certification within four (4) weeks of hire date - Must
be registered with the New Hampshire Board of Registration for
Medical Technicians within four (4) weeks of hireDon't meet every
single requirement?Studies have shown that women and people of
color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every
single qualification. At Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and
Clinics, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and
authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your
past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in
the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be
just the right candidate for this or other roles.
- Area of Interest: Allied Health;
- FTE/Hours per pay period: 1.00 - 1.00 - 40 hrs/week;
- Shift: Day;
- Job ID: 18987;Dartmouth Health is an Affirmative Action and
Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive
consideration for employment without regard to race, color,
religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national
origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated
against on the basis of disability.
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Keywords: Dartmouth Health, New England , Associate Perioperative Support Technician, Professions , Lebanon, Northeast
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