Overview

Job Summary:

 Demonstrates through behavior Decatur Morgan Hospital’s mission, vision and values.  Additionally, the unit clerk/scrub technician under the direct supervision of the licensed nurse performs various duties to assist in care of patients.  These duties include, but are not limited to, transcribing physician orders, answering and dispatching patient calls, answering the telephone and transferring calls to the appropriate personnel, maintaining supply inventories, office equipment, and overall order and organization of the nurses station, performing first scrub procedures in the Delivery OR and assistant roles at a vaginal delivery.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities and Essential Functions:

1.  Prepares sterile field with instruments, supplies, etc., needed for procedures and able to pass to surgeon intraoperatively.

2.    Maintain principles of technique, infection control, and patient safety.

3.    Ability to understand and retain instructions easily and quickly.

4.    Prepare for surgical cases daily by pulling cases, stocking rooms, and opening sterile field. 

5.    Ability to identify all instruments and sets used for surgical cases.

6.   Work with efficiency and speed.

7.   Knowledgeable of sterilizer equipment and documentation.

8.   Ability to scrub all types of cases and take call for emergency cases.

9.   Follows instructions, adaptable to change, accountable.

Qualifications

Minimum Knowledge, Skills, Experience Required:

• Uses common sense and special medical skills to care for the sick
• Understands technical information from supervisors, charts, reference books, manuals and labels
• Uses eyes, ears, hands and fingers with skill
• Acts quickly in an emergency, rendering appropriate life-saving measures
• Communicates with people
• Change from one duty to another frequently
• Follow and/or give precise instructions
• Records and interprets information accurately

Reasoning, Mathematical and Language Development are indicative of the general level of development required to do this job.  Some, but not necessarily all, areas mentioned in this section will be included in this job.

 Reasoning Development:                               

Apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagrammatic form.  Deal with problems involving several variables in or from standardized situations.

Mathematical Development:

Add and subtract two digit numbers.  Multiply and divide 10’s, and 100’s by 2,3,4,5.  Perform the four basic arithmetic operations with coins and as part of a dollar.  Perform operations with units such as cup, pint, and quart; inch, foot, and yard; or ounce and pound.

Reading:

Read and understands instructions, safety rules, etc.

Speaking:

Speak with poise, vice-control, and confidence, using correct English and well-modulated voice.

RELATIONSHIPS TO DATA, PEOPLE AND THINGS:

 Data:                          

Compiling: Gathering, collecting and classifying information about data, people or things.  Reporting and/or carrying out a prescribed action in relation to information is frequently involved.

People:

Speaking, hearing, talking with people to convey or exchange information.  Includes giving directions to staff, patients, families and/or visitors.

 Things:                                      

Manual dexterity: Use of body members or special devices to work, and perform functions pertinent to accomplishment of job assignment.

Education:  High school graduate or GED. 

Certification: Current BLS required

Experience:  Previous experience in clerical or receptionist position helpful. Previous experience in scrub role helpful. Hospital experience and knowledge of medical terminology preferred, but not required.