Nursing Attendant, Operating Room Suite, Mount Sinai Morningside - Full Time, 7am-3pm - Mount Sinai Health System : Job Details

Job DescriptionNursing Attendant, Operating Room Suite, Mount Sinai Morningside - Full Time, 7am-3pmTransports patients to and from the Operating room, maintains clean environment and equipment in the Operating Room area, and orders and maintains supplies and equipment. Provides assistance to outpatients as needed.Responsibilities1. Transports patients to and from Operating Room2. Assists with lifting, moving, and positioning patients3. Assists with proctoscopy-procedure4. Maintains the outpatients in changing to O.R. attire5. Transports and maintains a record of specimens sent to the laboratory for analysis6. Processes supplies, instruments and equipment through cleaning, packaging and storing7. Operates autoclaves, ultrasonic washer, washer sterilizer, gas sterilizer and other required equipment for processing supplies8. Changes daily record on sterilizers when necessary under supervision9. Checks and reports defective instruments and equipment10. May order and maintain stock supplies of linens, solutions, sets, sutures, needles, pharmacy supplies, etc.11. Sets up and cleans cast room and assists with procedures12. Cleans Operating Rooms after each case and other areas as needed13. Cleans Operating Rooms with special technique after infectious cases14. Cleans and stocks cabinets in each operating room daily15. Maintains stationery and supply scrub areas16. Cleans all cabinets in the work room areas17. Cleans furniture and equipment after each case and prepares room for next case18. Fills soap dispensers and maintains supply of scrub brushes and masks as needed19. Stocks linen supplies in the Operating Rooms and lounges20. Cleans pails and mops according to procedure21. Restocks supplies in proper areas when delivered22. Goes on errands to other departmentsQualificationsHigh school diploma or GED. Completed training as a medical assistant or nursing.Prefer relevant experience in an inpatient health care setting.Name: Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) and/or Heart Saver CPR Issuing Agency: National Board for Certification Collective bargaining unit: SEIU 1199-MSSLSEIU 1199 at Mount Sinai St. Luke's, BJK - Operating Room Suite - STL, Mount Sinai St. Luke'sAbout UsStrength Through Diversity The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai's unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally. Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history! About the Mount Sinai Health System: Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time - discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients' medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high Honor Roll status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report's Best Children's Hospitals ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country's best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek's The World's Best Smart Hospitals ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally. The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism. EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans