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HOURS: 4 days a week, 10 hours per day / Friday - Monday, 7AM - 5:30PM

GENERAL PURPOSE OF JOB:
To provide general clerical, equipment and patient care support to patient care units.

ESSENTIALS DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; employees will perform other reasonably related business duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor and/or hospital administration as required.

• Maintains utmost level of confidentiality at all times.
• Adheres to hospital policies and procedures.
  Demonstrates personal actions that are ethical and adhere to corporate compliance and integrity guidelines.
• Clerical duties: respond to communication devices such as phone/vocera/call bells, able to complete basic entries and communication orders into the electronic medical record.
• Room/Patient care equipment management: stocks supplies, checks for expiration dates, orders supplies, cleans equipment, cleans toys.
• Infectious material exposure: transports blood borne pathogen or other patient specimens, picks up blood from blood bank and delivers to the unit; sprays surgical instruments with enzymatic cleanser and prepares/transports them for processing, packages or moves infectious waste containers for disposal; may provide in rooms support for patients on airborne precautions.
• Patients at risk for self-harm or harm to others: performs room safety check, performs non-clinical patient assistant role
• Provide comfort care: direct patient contact/social interaction

Additional Duties:

• Work closely with the Special Projects Assistant
• Assist with payroll tasks for Operating Room staff
• Oversee and verify surgical procedure charges for accuracy
• Support various administrative tasks related to OR operations
• Assist with scheduling of same-day surgeries
• Transport patients as needed throughout the department
• Take specimens to the lab accurately and promptly
• Answer phones and manage incoming communication
• Sit with patients in the holding room, offering support as needed
• Assist with learning and eventually helping manage our emergency call-back system, which is used to page surgical teams back to campus for emergency surgeries

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSURE, REGISTRATION:

• American Heart Association Basic Life Support (CPR) continuously maintained.
• May onboard with AHA or Red Cross CPR and then transition to AHA upon first renewal.