Operating Room Support Technician - Per Diem

Carson Tahoe Health; Carson City (NV); On-site; USD 55,000 - 83,000; Part time

Job summary

Carson Tahoe Health in Carson City, NV is seeking a Nursing Support professional for per diem shifts in the Operating Room. The role involves environmental maintenance, patient transport, and assisting nurses before and after procedures.

You will work under RN supervision, support perioperative workflows, maintain equipment, and help with sterile technique and room turnovers to ensure safe, efficient patient care.

Qualifications

• BLS certification within 90 days of employment.
• Previous medical field experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Transport patients within the facility, ensuring patients' safety.
• Assist in transferring patients from bed to stretcher, stretcher to OR table.
• Assist with operating room turnovers including sweeping, mopping, dusting, disinfecting and gathering linens and other surgical equipment.
• Clean anesthesia machines and change circuits between cases. Run machine checks as directed.
• Daily, weekly, and monthly cleaning of designated areas as assigned.
• Gather and set up equipment for cases, clean, breakdown, and store equipment after cases. Assists with routine care, maintenance, and troubleshooting of designated equipment and devices.
• Ensure all three peri operative departments are properly stocked with materials and equipment.
• Assists with limited patient care in the operating, recovery, and procedure rooms as needed, specified, and directed under the supervision of a registered nurse.
• Scrub into total joint surgeries and hold limbs/retractors as needed
• Stat transport of time sensitive specimens to lab or pathology
• Clean gurneys in pre op and PACU
• Assists with periop operative documentation such as outdates and temperature/humidity logs
• Ensure gas cylinders are functional, full and available
• Ensure equipment rooms are organized and stockedDemonstrates appropriate knowledge of and compliance with safety policies and procedures, recognizes safety hazards, and initiate appropriate corrective and/or preventative measure

Skills

BLS Certification

Job description

Carson Tahoe Health in Carson City, NV is seeking a Nursing Support professional for per diem shifts in the Operating Room. The role involves environmental maintenance, patient transport, and assisting nurses before and after procedures.

You will work under RN supervision, support perioperative workflows, maintain equipment, and help with sterile technique and room turnovers to ensure safe, efficient patient care.