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Patient Care - Operating Room Attendant Days
full-timeNew Orleans

Summary

Location

New Orleans

Type

full-time

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About this role

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 experience in a related field with six months to one year of experience in a clinical or hospital setting.  

  • 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

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.

 

Simple things make the difference. 

1.    To get started, take your time to fully and accurately complete the application for employment. Incomplete applications get bogged down and are often eliminated due to missing information. 

2.    To ensure quality care and service, we may use information on your application to verify your previous employment and background.  

3.    To keep our career applications up-to-date, applications are inactive after 6 months and, therefore, require a new application for employment to be completed. 

4.    To expedite the hiring process, proof of citizenship or immigration status will be required to verify your lawful right to work in the United States. 

Other facts

Tech stack
Patient Transportation,Equipment Maintenance,Inventory Management,Communication,Teamwork,Safety Training,Cleaning Procedures,Professionalism,Empathy,Compassion,Organization,Proactivity,Customer Service,Attention to Detail,Mathematical Calculations

About LCMC Health

We believe a hospital should actually be hospitable.

We’re a New Orleans-based, non-profit health system on a mission: to provide the best possible care for every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond, and to put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way. And that means we do things a little differently around here.

Treating people like family is the LCMC Health way, and it always has been. Founded by Louisiana’s first freestanding children’s hospital, we’ve grown into a healthcare system that’s built to serve the unique needs of our communities and families across New Orleans, the Gulf Coast and beyond.

We believe in treating the whole patient, not just the condition. When you visit an LCMC Health facility, you will get the care that is best for you and your family because we believe that shared beliefs and positive outlooks are what drive our exceptional care.

We offer nine hospital locations: Children’s Hospital New Orleans, East Jefferson General Hospital, New Orleans East Hospital, Touro, University Medical Center New Orleans, West Jefferson Medical Center, Lakeview Hospital, and Lakeside Hospital. We also deliver world-class care close to home through a network of urgent care centers across the greater New Orleans area in addition to our physician practices. With over 2,200 board-certified physicians specializing in everything from head to toe, our community can count on us to provide the right care, right where they need it.

We’ve got a rich history, but our sights are set on what comes next. We’re committed to leading the way to a healthier future for the Gulf Coast. That’s why we partner with local universities to bring the latest in care to our patients, and to train the next generation of healthcare professionals that will make a difference right here in our communities.

Team size: 10,001+ employees
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Industry: Hospitals and Health Care
Founding Year: 2009

What you'll do

  • Assist in transporting patients to and from surgery while ensuring all equipment is available and in working order. Maintain a professional environment by interacting courteously with patients, families, and staff.

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What does a Patient Care - Operating Room Attendant Days do at LCMC Health?

As a Patient Care - Operating Room Attendant Days at LCMC Health, you will: assist in transporting patients to and from surgery while ensuring all equipment is available and in working order. Maintain a professional environment by interacting courteously with patients, families, and staff..

Why join LCMC Health as a Patient Care - Operating Room Attendant Days?

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The Patient Care - Operating Room Attendant Days position at LCMC Health is based in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Contact the company through Clera for specific work arrangement details.

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