Respiratory Equipment Tech — Day Shift

1004 Lehigh Valley Hospital; United States; On-site; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Lehigh Valley Health Network is seeking personnel to perform inventory, cleaning, sterilizing, and replenishing equipment, and to identify equipment due for preventive maintenance and place work orders for repair. The role oversees equipment handling and disinfection of reusable respiratory critical care equipment.

Responsibilities include collecting soiled patient equipment, turnover and setup of equipment, and ensuring availability for procedures.

Qualifications

• Must be 18 years old or older.
• Ability to interact with many levels of healthcare professionals and the general public.
• Ability to adhere to infection control guidelines related to cleaning clinical equipment.
• Ability to pay attention to detail in equipment assembly and when checking for proper operation.
• Understanding of computers and ability to learn new software support.

Responsibilities

• Performs inventory, cleaning, sterilizing, and replenishing equipment and supplies and identifies equipment due for preventative maintenance and places work orders for repair.
• Oversees the process of equipment handling and disinfection of reusable respiratory critical care equipment.
• Assists in the pick-up and collection of soiled patient equipment to the designated cleaning area.
• Assists in the turnover and set-up of equipment by cleaning all patient care equipment, performing appropriate self-diagnostic tests on equipment, and ensuring all needed equipment is available for patient care/procedures.
• Inspects, monitors, and verifies patient medical equipment is in good working condition.
• Ensures proper functioning of respiratory equipment by providing functional safety testing of all critical care life support equipment.
• Redistributes cleaned patient medical devices upon request by a respiratory therapist and to an established equipment location/unit to maintain par levels.
• Manages medical gas cylinders and ensures safe storage and transport.
• Orders, tracks, and monitors equipment inventory and rental equipment program.

Skills

Infection control

Attention to detail

Computer literacy

Tools

Lawson

Score Sleep Software

Job description

Lehigh Valley Health Network is seeking personnel to perform inventory, cleaning, sterilizing, and replenishing equipment, and to identify equipment due for preventive maintenance and place work orders for repair. The role oversees equipment handling and disinfection of reusable respiratory critical care equipment.

Responsibilities include collecting soiled patient equipment, turnover and setup of equipment, and ensuring availability for procedures.