Mission:
Virginia Urology will provide access to individualized, quality, and compassionate urological care from a highly specialized and diverse teams while maintaining a fulfilling work environment.
Overall Objective:
The Patient Care Technician in the ASC is primarily responsible for supporting safe, efficient patient care before, during, and after surgical procedures. They will focus on patient preparation, clinical support, and maintaining a safe care environment.
Principal Activities and Expected End Results:
- Assist nurses and anesthesia with safely positioning of patients.
- Assist with cleaning and ensuring the sterility of Operating Rooms, Pre-op bays, and PACU bays in accordance with Pre-Procedure Clean-up, Post Procedure Clean-up, and Terminal Cleaning policy of Virginia Urology Surgery Center.
- Oversee appropriate inventory is stocked and readily available in Operating Rooms, patient care areas and supply rooms.
- Put away equipment after case. (Lasers, microscopes, stirrups, etc.)
- Assist with turning over rooms to ensure timely turnover, such duties include wiping all the equipment and surfaces down in each OR room, bringing in equipment for the following case, removing waste, soiled linen, biohazard waste, and completing terminal cleaning of the Operating Rooms in accordance with the Cleaning Policy of VUSC.
- Assist anesthesia in turning over the anesthesia machine for following case, such as wiping down anesthesia machine, anesthesia cart, computer, keyboard, and connecting new circuit for following case.
- Transports specimens to the Pathology Department and to the 2nd floor lab in accordance with acceptable infections control guidelines and departmental policies and procedures.
- Assist with transferring patients from stretcher to bed, bed to stretcher, and into/out of wheelchair.
- Transports instruments to Central Sterile department for cleaning.
- Shares responsibility for patient safety at all times. Maintains an environment that is free of obstacles and hazards that could result in injuries to personnel and patients.
- Restock warmer in the OR with clean blankets, gowns, saline, and water.
- Report broken equipment to supervisor.
- Replace sharps containers when ¾ full.
- Attends continuing education including but not limited to; Safety, Infection Control, Disaster preparedness, code reviews, fire safety, IVCS and MH, radiation safety and document attendance on continuing education worksheet. These continuing education sessions can be in the form of in-services, online training and testing, handouts, etc.
- Attends monthly staff meetings.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
