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Anesthesia Technician
- SSM Health (Oklahoma City, OK)
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It's more than a career, it's a calling
OK-SSM Health St. Anthony Hospital - Oklahoma City
Worker Type:
Regular
Job Highlights:
•Schedule: Full-Time | Weekend Shift
•Starting Pay: 15.80+/hr. (Offers are based on years of experience and equity for this role.)
•Location: Oklahoma City, OK
Job Summary:
Performs a number of duties in assisting the professional staff in setting-up, calibrating, disinfection and operating anesthesia equipment. Orders, obtains, stocks and distributes anesthesia supplies to carts.
Job Responsibilities and Requirements:
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
+ Checks, cleans and maintains anesthesia machine monitors including changing oxygen cylinders, refilling anesthesia gases, changing CO2 absorbent and ensuring equipment is in good working order.
+ Assists in set-ups of anesthesia equipment as needed.
+ Orders, obtains and stocks sterile solution surgical supplies to specified storage cabinets, including automated dispensing systems/cabinets.
+ Orders and maintains inventories of supplies in anesthesia and related areas. Ensures anesthesia carts are appropriately stocked.
+ Ensures malfunctioning equipment is serviced and proper infection control and regulatory guidelines are followed.
+ Assists in operating room turn-over by disinfecting anesthesia work surfaces, monitor cables and connecting a clean anesthesia circuit to the anesthesia machine.
+ Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
+ Performs other duties as assigned.
EDUCATION
+ High School diploma/GED or 10 years of work experience
EXPERIENCE
+ No experience required
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
+ Constant standing and walking.
+ Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
+ Frequent reaching and gripping.
+ Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
+ Occasional bending, stooping, climbing, kneeling, squatting, twisting and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
+ Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
+ Occasional use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
+ Occasional use of smell to detect/recognize odors.
+ Rare crawling, sitting and keyboard use/data entry.
REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS
State of Work Location: Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Wisconsin
+ Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
Work Shift:
Weekend Shift (United States of America)
Job Type:
Employee
Department:
4403000040 Surgery
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
32
Benefits:
SSM Health values our exceptional employees by offering a comprehensive benefits package to fit their needs.
+ **Paid Parental Leave** **:** we offer eligible team members one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE).
+ **Flexible Payment Options:** our voluntary benefit offered through DailyPay offers eligible hourly team members instant access to their earned, unpaid base pay (fees may apply) before payday.
+ **Upfront Tuition Coverage** : we provide upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members.
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