Periop Patient Care Asst

As our Patient Care Assistant Periop at CHI St. Joseph you will be responsible for opening sterile supplies, assisting with patient positioning, coordinating and assisting with the set up and cleanup of the operating rooms as well as assisting team members in the delivery of patients to and from the operating room.

CHI St. Joseph Health – College Station/Bryan TX Since 1936 CHI St. Joseph Health has been caring for the communities in Bryan College Station Brenham Hearne Navasota Caldwell Madisonville and Bellville. With the area’s only Level II Trauma Center the first Joint Commission certified Primary Stroke Center and the first accredited Chest Pain Center in the Brazos Valley; CHI St. Joseph Health is a leader in critical care and the largest provider of cardiovascular care in the region. As an integrated healthcare system CHI St. Joseph Health includes a comprehensive network of over 100 employed providers including primary care physicians specialists and advanced practice clinicians. The network includes more than 20 ambulatory clinics featuring primary care a freestanding Emergency Room Express Clinics and imaging and diagnostic services.

• Reviews the OR schedule daily, tracking and monitoring the necessary pick‐up and delivery of patients to and from the operating rooms as needed to ensure timely surgical starts
• Opens and assists the team with supplies, instrument sets, suture selection and meeting benchmark turnovers
• Assists the surgical suite in patient positioning, surgical preps, clipping and aids in the retrieving of x‐rays, equipment set up and tracking and removing instruments to and from the operating room suites
• Rounds within their assigned surgical rooms to ensure that all turnovers are met and Supports the necessary patient movement and flow
• Assists Registered Nurses, Surgical Scrubs and the Surgeons while preventing the disruption of the surgical case by retrieving supplies, relaying messages and managing the ancillary support of the surgical team
• Anticipates the needs of the surgical team members and provides the necessary support and knowledge of surgical supplies, instruments and sutures
• Sets up and tears down laparoscopic equipment, ensuring that printers, cameras and tubing is properly processed and arranged
•  Ensures that used surgical instruments are cleaned, replaced and properly returned to the decontamination department within SPD
• Assists in the pre‐operative patient preparation once the patient has arrived in the operating room/includes placing grounding pad on patient and ensuring that the device is properly connected
• Obtains the necessary skin preparation solutions and prepares the prep stand as needed

Required Education and Experience

• High School Diploma/GED
• One (1) year of related health care experience
• American Heart Association BLS certification

Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Training

• Ability to understand and develop processes that assist and aid the surgical team
  
• Good knowledge of operating room etiquette/processes/medical terminology
  
• Demonstrate competency in the opening and storing of sterile surgical supplies/sterile field