Employees in this class have occasional in person contact with central supply aides and stores clerks when ordering supplies or sending instruments for sterilization. They have occasional in person contact with repair people when requesting service for equipment. Work is reviewed for quality, accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with agency policies, guidelines, and regulations. Work is assigned verbally by a charge or shift nurse or physician. Employees in this class use their own initiative to perform ongoing patient and facility care once the initial assignment has been received.
Positions require the willingness to work weekends, on-call, various shifts, or holidays.
They require the willingness to maintain harmonious working relationships with patients, staff, and coworkers. They require the willingness to stand and walk for extended periods of time. They require the willingness to work with and around hot steam, gases, and caustic cleaning agents. Basic knowledge of patient care procedures in areas such as vital signs, personal hygiene, nutrition, elimination, and patients' environment. Ability to learn proper precautions to use in working with sharp instruments, steam and gas sterilizers, and chemical washers.