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Job Title
OR SERVICE ASSISTANT II
Location
Stuart
Facility
CC Martin Health North
Department
MMC Operating Rooms-Cleveland Clinic Martin Health
Job Code
000554
Shift
Days
Schedule
6:30am-2:30am
Job Summary
Join Cleveland Clinic’s Martin North Hospital where research and surgery are advanced, technology is leading-edge, patient care is world-class, and caregivers are family. This downtown Stuart hospital provides top-quality patient care to the communities in and around Martin County on the beautiful Indian River. The caregivers at Martin North Hospital have made it not only an excellent medical facility, but also a home away from home.
As an Operating Room Service Assistant, your primary duties include, but are not limited to:
- Assisting in transporting patients and setting up operating rooms.
- Maintaining and operating special equipment.
- Coordinating equipment and supplies.
- Monitoring and tracking the loaning/lending of supplies and equipment.
- Providing limited assistance to surgeons, such as holding limbs/retractors, suctioning and sponging wounds.
The ideal candidate is someone who:
- Demonstrates a strong work ethic.
- Has excellent critical thinking skills and decisive judgement.
- Thrives in a team environment.
- Is detail-oriented and organized.
Cleveland Clinic provides what matters most: career growth, delivering world-class care to our patients, continuous learning, exceptional benefits and working for an organization that offers many long-term career paths. Join us and experience a culture where opportunities to advance and the support to get there go hand-in-hand.
Job Details
Responsibilities:
- Maintains surgical instrument sets and equipment and ensures proper sterile conditions.
- Cleans used instruments after surgery. (Process may require assembly and maintenance of some instruments for proper cleaning and sterilization).
- Ensures proper sterile conditions, orders supplies, stocks, and maintains storage areas in the Operating Room for service.
- Assists in transporting patients and room turnover.
- Assists RN in maintaining a safe environment for the patient.
- Interfaces daily with physicians, staff, vendor sales representatives, sterile processing, and storeroom as a necessary part of routine activities.
- Ensures proper storage and utilization of service equipment.
- Ensures service specific supply expiration dates are checked monthly.
- Coordinates and documents equipment repairs and loaner returns.
- Works as a liaison to educate staff in the proper use and functioning of equipment.
- Scrubs in as needed to hold limbs/retractors.
- Scrubs in as needed for suctioning or sponging of wound.
- When scrubbed in, will maintain surgical sterility throughout procedure.
- After procedure, will assist in transferring of patient from surgical table to stretcher or bed.
- Other duties as assigned.
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Education:
- High School Diploma or GED equivalent
Certifications:
- Basic Life Support (BLS) through American Heart Association (AHA) required.
- Sterile processing certification or Operating Room Technician (ORT) certification preferred.
Competencies (Complexity of Work):
Work Experience:
- Position requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
- Understanding of surgical work flow, surgical terminology, and physician preferences.
- Must be able to work in a stressful environment.
Physical Requirements:
- Requires full range of body motion to include handling and lifting patients, manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination.
- Requires standing and walking for extensive periods of time.
- Frequently lifts and carries items weighing up to 25 pounds ad ability to push, pull, and navigate supply carts weighing up to 200 pounds.
- Requires corrected vision and hearing to normal range.
Personal Protective Equipment:
- Follows Standard Precautions using personal protective equipment as required for procedures.
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