Essential functions
Primary Nurse activities 95 percent of time
- Prepare for next day’s cases by gathering supplies, instruments and equipment.
- Wipe flat surfaces in OR the morning of surgery.
- Perform required autoclave tests and check for proper temperature and pressure. Keep daily logs of autoclave performance.
- Prepare OR with supplies and equipment required for the procedure.
- Assist with transport of the patient to the operating room.
- Assist with positioning of patient for the procedure.
- Monitor for breaks in sterile technique.
- Assist with surgical prep per protocol.
- Perform sponge and needle counts as appropriate.
- Assist entire team throughout procedure to ensure desired outcome.
- Ensure universal precautions are maintained.
- Order supplies for workroom as needed.
- Update physician preference cards.
Other duties as assigned by Supervisor or Director of Nursing
The above specified tasks may not be the only duties assigned. Employees will be required to carry out any other job-related instructions requested by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodations.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
- Current CPR certification
Supervisory Responsibilities
- Not required for this position
Activity and knowledge requirements Work environment
- Normal exposure to weather and temperature extremes.
- Normal amount of overtime or extended work hours required.
Physical effort
- Normal physical mobility, which includes movement from place to place.
- Normal physical agility, which includes ability to maneuver body while in place.
- Ability to stand/walk for up to 8 hours per day.
- Normal physical strength to handle routine office materials and tools.
- Above average physical strength to handle 50-100 pounds, taking frequency into consideration.
- Ability to assist patients in turning, rising from recliners and stretchers; assist patients in and out of wheel chairs; push wheel chairs.
- Normal dexterity of hands and fingers.
- Normal coordination, including eye-hand, hand-foot.
- Above average endurance.
Knowledge requirements
- High School Graduate or GED
- Completion of recognized Surgical Technologist training program.
- One year operating room scrub experience required.
- Experience in Orthopaedic and outpatient surgery preferred.
- Must have strong team orientation.
Mental effort
- Normal concentration/intensity.
- Normal memory, taking into consideration the amount and type of information.
- Above average complexity of decision making.
- Normal time pressure of decision making.
Communication
- Normal verbal communication.
- Normal written communication.
- Normal nonverbal communication.
Sensory abilities
- Normal ability to see, distinguish colors and hear.
- Normal sense of touch.
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