Operating Room Attendant - PRN Days

LCMC Health; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

LCMC Health in New Orleans seeks an Operating Room Attendant to ensure safe patient transport to and from surgery, keep equipment sterile and ready, and maintain clean corridors. You will work closely with surgeons, nurses, and staff to support turnover and safety training.

Qualifications include a High School Diploma or GED and BLS certification; two years' experience preferred. This role offers a collaborative team environment and opportunities to contribute to compassionate patient care.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required; prior patient transport experience preferred.
• American Heart Association BLS certification required.

Responsibilities

• Assist transporting patients to and from surgery.
• Ensure movable equipment is stored safely and supplies removed from hallways.
• Report nonfunctional equipment to management.
• Maintain adequate inventory levels.
• Prepare patients for transport to surgery and ensure accuracy of patient identity.

Skills

Patient transport

Equipment handling

Safety procedures

Communication

Inventory awareness

Education

High School Diploma/GED

2 years experience in lieu of diploma

Job description

Your job is more than a job.

As a member of the operating room team, your top priority as an Operating Room Attendant is a safe and comfortable surgical experience for every patient. That means ensuring all transport equipment is available, sterile, and in working order when needed. Your personality and professionalism shines through assisting in transportation of patients to and from surgery. Calm, cool, and proactive, you’re a team player as you work alongside physicians, families, visitors, peers and other departments.

You thrive on helping others, focus on the little things, and organize like nobody’s business. Ready, willing, and able, no task is too small, and no smile is too big. Can we clone you?

Your experiences, knowledge, skills, your empathy, compassion, personality, all of it adds up to you. And we’re excited to get to know you and find out what you’ll bring to this supportive surgical team role.

Your Everyday

• Assist the transporting patients to and from surgery.


• Ensures all movable equipment is safely stored, supplies are removed from hallways and stored in respective spaces.


• Report nonfunctional or broken equipment to management.


• Assist in maintaining adequate inventory levels.


• Identify specific patients accurately and ready patients for transport to surgery.


• Use appropriate cleaning solutions after each use of equipment


• Assist the operating team with turnover between cases.


• Interact with patients, families, visitors, fellow employees to ensure a professional and courteous environment.


• Attend all required safety training programs and maintain responsibilities related to general safety, department or service safety, and specific job-related hazards.


• Ability to communicate effectively and to perform simple mathematical calculations with a reasonable degree of accuracy.


• Perform duties using standard precautions and OSHA guidelines.

The Must-Haves

Minimum

• High School Diploma/GED or equivalent


• 2 years of experience in lieu of diploma


• American Heart Association BLS certification

Work Shift

Days (United States of America)

LCMC Health is a community.

Our people make health happen. While our NOLA roots run deep, our branches are the vessels that carry our mission of bringing the best possible care to every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond and put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way. Celebrating authenticity, originality, equity, inclusion and a little “come on in” attitude is the foundation of LCMC Health’s culture of everyday extraordinary

Touro,

at the forefront of medical excellence within LCMC Health’s incredible community of care, has been regionally recognized for 165 years as one of New Orleans' most enduring healthcare monuments. It’s where babies come from and New Orleanians are cared for. Learn more about Touro and our Leapfrog “Grade A” Hospital Safety distinction

Your extras

• Deliver healthcare with heart.


• Give people a reason to smile.


• Put a little love in your work.


• Be honest and real, but with compassion.


• Bring some lagniappe into everything you do.


• Forget one-size-fits-all, think one-of-a-kind care.


• See opportunities, not problems – it’s all about perspective.


• Cheerlead ideas, differences, and each other.


• Love what makes you, you - because we do

You are welcome here.

LCMC Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The above job summary is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. LCMC Health reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary.