What are the responsibilities and job description for the Operating Room Assistant position at Omega Hospital?
Responsibilities for operating room assistant
- Monitoring and maintaining standards of professional nursing practice
- Monitoring employee performance against measurable objectives
- Assisting the coordination of unit performance improvement activities
- Daily management of personnel and consumable resources within financial targets
- Ensures safety and support measures in patient transfer ( bedrails raised, patient covered with blanket and warm)
- Wash furniture and make up O.R
- Clean off blood from surfaces
- Anticipates and is attentive to progress of O.R
- Delivery of specimens to labs
- Creates stock lists, obtain and stock O.R
Qualifications for operating room assistant
- Reporting broken stretchers, beds equipment – filling out equipment repair sheet and taking broken stretchers out of circulation
- Carry out standard duties which are within scope
- Performs pre-operative surgical preps
- The ORA is responsible for transporting patients, cleaning O.R.s, maintaining a clean environment, moving equipment, delivery of specimens, second scrubbing PRN, and other duties as assigned
- Checks rooms to ensure proper setup for case
- Performs indirect patient care duties
