Certified Labor & Delivery Tech - Per Diem - CORPORATE

Job Description

Functions as Scrub Assistant. Sets up tables and prepares room for obstetric procedures. Ensures sufficient sterile supplies and instruments on the Unit. Performs transport duties.

Responsibilities Include:

• General Responsibilities:
• Functions as a Scrub Assistant under the Supervision of an RN.
- Sets-up operating room tray, arranging instruments, sponges, sutures, and dressings.- Assists surgical team during surgery by passing instruments, sponges, and dressings.
• Participates as a member of the nursing team. Assists RN’s in the orientation of new staff to scrub position.
• Reports pertinent events during the course of the shift’s activity (i.e., equipment, supplies.)
• Performs as an interdepartmental messenger, as needed.
• Answers phones and transports patients by wheelchair and stretcher.
• Delivery Room Assignments:
  • Appropriately utilizes aseptic techniques. Identifies and observes breaks in aseptic technique and reports to RN. Surgically scrubs for OBS and GYN procedures.
  • Sets-up tables and prepares room for OBS procedures in LDR’s and delivery rooms.
  • Prepares patient for delivery in LDR’s.
  • Cleans instruments and equipment to be returned to CSR for sterilizing. (As needed, wraps and label instruments before sterilization.) Check all sterile equipment for expiration dates.
  • Ensures sufficient sterile supplies and instruments on the unit to meet the needs of the shift.
  • Transports stillborn to the morgue, as required.
  • Strips patients’ beds and prepares beds, stretchers and delivery tables for new admissions. Make beds stretchers and delivery tables, as needed by shift.
• Patient Care Assignments:
  • Receives patient report and assignment from RN in charge.
  • Makes rounds on assigned post partum patients.
  • Ensures patient’s environment is safe and clean.
  • Answers call lights for post partum patients, as necessary.
  • Offers oral hygiene to patients, clears overbed tables and prepares patients for meals.
  • Takes temperatures, as directed.
  • Prepares patient for transport, when needed.
  • For bed bound patients; bed pan, turn and position when necessary.
  • Make rounds to assure all patients are clean and dry.
  • Place utensils and supplies in bedside stands, as needed. (i.e., discharged patients and transfers.)
  • For new admissions; orients patient, assists patient to undress, obtains specimens, and takes temperature, pulse, resp, weight and height.
  • Assists with examinations and procedures, as necessary.
  • Administers enemas, perform abdominal and perineal shave, as directed.
  • Assists with output measurements.
  • Assists patients with personal hygiene; administers pericare.
  • Provides baby care, as needed.
  • Identifies and observes changes in patient status and reports to RN.
  • Performs point of care blood glucose testing.
  • Provides customer service for patients’ families and visitors.
• Environmental Responsibilities:
• Stocks labor and Delivery area daily, as directed.
• Supplies admitting rooms with OB Admission Packs and other needed supplies (monitor paper, belts, speculums, etc.).
• Makes unoccupied beds and stretchers and assures that there is a pillow for each bed.
• Maintains non-patient areas in neat and orderly condition.
• Assures rolling equipment is clean.
• Reports missing or damaged equipment. Report shortages to RNs.
• Defrosts and cleans refrigerators.
• Cleans closet, drawers and equipment.
• Cleans infant transporter after each patient use.
• Performs related duties, as required.

 

 

 

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent, required. Associate’s Degree in Operating Room Technology, preferred.
• Completion of an accredited Operating Room Technician Training Program, required.
• Successful completion from a nationally accredited educational program for surgical technologist, and holds and maintains a certified surgical technologist (CST) credential administered by the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (NBSTSA), required.

a person may be employed or contracted with to practice surgical technology during the 12-month period immediately following successful completion of a surgical technology program, but may not continue to be employed beyond that period without documentation that the employee holds and maintains a certified surgical technologist credential required.
Must be and remain in good standing with NYS regulations, required.