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Periop Patient Care Assistant
As our Periop Patient Care Assistant at The Woodlands Facility, now part of CommonSpirit Health formed between Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health, you’ll help our patients be comfortable as they prepare and are released from the operating room.
Your success in this role comes from your genuine desire to help patients feel better, whether that means treating each patient's individual needs, checking their vitals and supporting our clinical teams. You’re diligent about your tasks, observant of patients’ conditions improving or declining, and accept coaching well. You know we’re all continuously trying to become better care providers, and you’re eager to learn.
The Woodlands Hospital is a 245 bed non-profit facility providing quality health care to patients and communities in and around The Woodlands, Texas. We are part of CommonSpirit Health which operates 139 hospitals and more than 1,000 care sites across 21 states, making our services accessible to nearly 1 in 4 U.S. residents.
If you are committed to social justice, health equity, and prepared to deliver care in new, innovative ways, you belong with us.
Responsible for opening sterile supplies, assisting with patient positioning, coordinating and assisting with the set up and cleanup of the operating rooms as well as assisting team members in the delivery of patients to and from the operating room.
Responsibilities
- Opens and assists the team with supplies, instrument sets, suture selection and meeting benchmark turnovers
- Assists the surgical suite in patient positioning, surgical preps, clipping and aids in the retrieving of x-rays, equipment set up and tracking and removing instruments to and from the operating room suites
- Assists Registered Nurses, Surgical Scrubs and the Surgeons while preventing the disruption of the surgical case by retrieving supplies, relaying messages and managing the ancillary support of the surgical team
- Sets up and tears down laparoscopic equipment, ensuring that printers, cameras and tubing is properly processed and arranged
- Assists in the pre-operative patient preparation
Qualifications
- High School Diploma/GED
- Based on location assignment may also require BLS/ACLS/ and or PALS
Preferred experience:
- One (1) year of related health care experience
- Hospital environmental and safety sanitation
- Hospital patient transport
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Unless directed by a Collective Bargaining Agreement, applications for this position will be considered on a rolling basis. CommonSpirit Health cannot anticipate the date by which a successful candidate may be identified.
Depending on the position offered, CommonSpirit Health offers a generous benefit package, including but not limited to medical, prescription drug, dental, vision plans, life insurance, paid time off (full-time benefit eligible employees may receive a minimum of 14 paid time off days, including holidays annually), tuition reimbursement, retirement plan benefit(s) including, but not limited to, 401(k), 403(b), and other defined benefits offerings, as may be amended from time to time. For more information, please visit https://www.commonspirit.careers/benefits.
