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Summary:

+ Position Summary:

+ Responsible for serving as an active member of the Perioperative Team. The main responsibility of this job is to assist with all phases of the perioperative procedure to include but not limited to: basic operating block room set-up and turnover, assist anesthesia providers, patient preparation and positioning, stocking of supplies, anesthetic blocks, setting up sterile trays for lines and any other job needed to be completed within Perioperative Services as directed by the Circulating Nurse, Charge Nurse, Coordinator, Anesthesia Technologist Facilitator or Anesthesia provider. Patient care includes care to patients in the following age groups: neonatal birth to 30 days , pediatric 30 days through 12 years , adolescent 13 through 18 years , adult 19 through 64 years and geriatric 65 years and above .

+ Qualified individuals must have the ability with or without reasonable accommodation to perform the following duties:

+ Anesthesia

+ Prepare for hemodynamic monitoring and insertion of invasive hemodynamic monitors.

+ Assist with Anesthesiologist with peripheral nerve blocks within any location of LGH

+ Assists the Anesthesiologist CRNA during cases. Duties include:

+ Performs daily anesthesia machine checks

+ preparing peripheral IV’s

+ IV insertion to be under the direct supervision of the anesthesiologists or CRNA

+ Assist with invasive lines

+ drawing blood samples

+ assisting with blood and fluid replacement

+ preparing medications under the direct supervision of the anesthesiologist CRNA

+ Performs point of care testing and the QA’s associated

+ Prepares fluid warmers

+ Set up rapid transfusion devices

+ Assist with difficult airway management

+ Support anesthesia in non O.R. locations endo, IVU, EP and Cath lab, ER

+ Stocks anesthesia carts

+ Checks anesthesia equipment

+ Orders anesthesia supplies and maintains par levels and adjusts inventory as indicated

+ Performs daily checks of anesthesia equipment and supplies in all Operating Rooms

+ Decontaminates anesthesia TEE equipment

+ Provides support to the Surgical Team: as a team member will perform without hesitation or direction the duties below to maintain the flow of surgery

+ OR room preparation: Correct surgical bed with linens; Retrieve equipment as required; Assist with Opening sterile supplies

+ Patient Preparation intra-op: Assist with prep and patient positioning using proper body mechanics; Assist with placement of OR equipment; Assist scrub team with sterile supplies, Tying the backs of the scrub gowns ; Supply equipment retrieval prior to and during procedures and post procedure

+ Intra-op:

+ Transport specimens as requested

+ Assure bed stretcher is ready for patient at end of surgery

+ Post-op

+ Lifting help from OR bed to stretcher

+ Flat surface cleaning

+ Change out used anesthesia circuit and suction tubing

+ Mop floor

+ Remove trash and deliver to appropriate place

+ Remove equipment and return to appropriate storage

+ Patient transport as required

+ End of shift

+ Re-stock OR’s

+ Return equipment supplies to appropriate areas

+ Report to the next shift status of OR’s

+ Routinely performs necessary housekeeping independently within assigned area of department.

+ Other duties

+ Observes and reports unusual situations, reactions, effects, or conditions to responsible person. Reports equipment that is out of order.

+ Understands and follows universal protocol

+ Understands the parameters of the sterile field and traffic flow for the Operating Room

+ Other duties as deemed necessary by the Department Manager

+ The following duties are considered secondary to the primary duties listed above:

+ Transport patients from the Nursing Units to the Operating Room.

+ Transports patients from the PACU to the Nursing Unit

+ Trouble shoot the Operating Room electrical beds.

+ With guidance from the surgical team connect electrical equipment to the outlets and assist with moving equipment up to the sterile field.

+ Knowledgeable of how to take pieces of equipment out of service

+ Participates in the on-call responsibilities for this position as required.

+ Other duties as assigned.

Responsibilities:

+ Minimum Required Qualifications:

+ A high school diploma or equivalent GED

+ One 1 year of patient care experience or one 1 year of perioperative services experience

+ A health care provider in good standing with Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal and state health insurance programs, i.e. not excluded from participation in Medicare, Medicaid or any other federal or state health insurance program

+ One 1 year of Anesthesia related experience

+ Graduate of Anesthesia Tech program

+ Certified Anesthesia Tech

+ ATTENTION CONCENTRATION - The following level of ability is essential for the jobholder to focus on certain aspects of current experience and reject others:

+ The position requires the ability to attend to a specific stimulus without being distracted by extraneous environmental stimuli. The individual must be able to attend to environmental detail with the ability to separate essential from non-essential or irrelevant stimuli. The attention skills required are generally considered to be automatic - - passive, but focused with an intact capacity for select perception.

+ NEW LEARNING AND MEMORY - The following level of ability is essential for the jobholder to learn and retain material:

+ Job demands are only moderately routine and predictable. Minor changes may occur which require the individual to be able to understand and carry out detailed but uninvolved instructions.

+ PROBLEM SOLVING, REASONING AND CREATIVE THINKING - The following level of ability that is essential for the jobholder to think in order to solve a problem by combining two or more elements from past experience or imaginative thought:

+ The requirement for autonomous problem solving or creativity of thought in the position is minimal. Problems encountered tend to involve a few concrete variables in or from standardized situations. Typically involves adhering to a chart or set procedure.

+ The following are essential requirements of the position in relation to job-worker situations. These items describe how a worker must adapt, adjust, conform or act:

+ Repetitive work: Ability to continuously perform the same type of work for extended periods of time, according to set procedures, sequence or pace.

+ Performing under stressful conditions: Ability to perform under stress when confronted with emergency, critical, unusual, or dangerous situations, or in situations in which working speed and sustained attention are critical aspects of the job. Is subject to danger or risk, or to tension as a regular, consistent part of the job.

+ Communication: Ability to exchange information with others clearly and concisely; to present ideas, facts and technical information.

+ Interpersonal relations: Ability to maintain relationships that facilitate task accomplishment; to cooperate and resolve conflicts; to recognize needs and be sensitive of others.

Credentials:

+ Cert Anesthesia Tchn

Education or Equivalent Experience:

+ H.S. Diploma/GED (Required)

+ Vocational/Trade Diploma

We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.

Live Your Life's Work

We are an Equal Opportunity employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic or sexual violence victim status, citizenship status, military status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.

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