Job Details **Operating Room Attendant, Full Time, Days**

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**Department**: Operating Room - 621000

**Position Type:** Regular

**Shift:** Day Shift

**Hours Per Week:** Full time 40 hours per week

**FT/PT/PD:** Regular

**Location:** New England Baptist Hospital, 125 Parker Hill Ave, Boston, MA 02120

Principal Duties and Essential Functions:

Operating Room Responsibilities

* Responsible for checking the OR bed or positioning devices for proper attachments

* Demonstrate a working knowledge of all tables and positioning devices and attachments

* Clean all positioning equipment and bed attachments prior to putting away

* Demonstrate initiative to put away extra equipment when not in use

* Adhere to standard and resistant organism precautions

* Wear personal protective attire appropriate for task being performed (i.e., gown, goggles, gloves)

* Observe for and attend to blood or body fluid spills

* Work effectively with other staff as a member of the surgical team

* Respond to intercom calls in a timely manner

* Assume responsibility for prompt room turnover times

* Complies with on-call responsibilities

* Responds within 60 minutes when on-call (unless another time frame is established by the Nursing Coordinator).

* Assists staff in the PACU or other Surgical Services unit(s), as necessary

Patient Prep

* Delivers appropriate positioning equipment to each room

* Assists in positioning of patients for surgical procedures

* Holds extremities for skin prep

* Delivers PACU stretchers/patient beds to room upon request from primary/associate nurse

* Assists in transferring the patients from the OR table to the PACU or patient's bed and assists in transferring patients to PACU when necessary

Room Turnover

* Responsible for room turnovers between cases

* Clean room according to guidelines

* Dispose of soiled linen and replace with clean laundry bag

* Dispose of trash and re-line buckets with plastic liners

* Mops floor with a clean mop and disinfectant solution after every case

* Empties suction canisters into safety station in dirty utility room

* Manages the emptying, cleaning, and dispersion of fluid management system

* Replaces clean suction canisters and tubing at each suction regulator in the OR

* Cleans and re-makes OR bed and/or stretcher

* Restocks room as necessary

Education

* High School Graduate or Equivalent

* American Heart Association Heartsaver or BLS Certification

**Additional REQUIRED Qualifications/Skills*:***

* Ability to assist with lifting heavy patients and equipment

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