OB Tech - Family Birthplace

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Job Description Summary:

Under the direction of a Registered Nurse, prepares for cesarean sections and arranges sterile set-up of instrument table. Assist surgeons by passing instruments and supplies, holding retractors and assisting surgeons during course of surgery. Cleans operating room and stores equipment and supplies. The Obstetrical Care Associate (OCA) is responsible for multi-skilled activities related to Obstetrical and Gynecological patients, as well as maintaining supplies and equipment for the entire Obstetrical/Gynecological unit. The OCA provides care to the antepartal, intrapartal, postpartal, and gynecological patient under the supervision of the RN and are responsible for maintaining supplies and equipment for the OR, L&D and Postpartum/Gynecological rooms, performing adjunct nursing assistant responsibilities.

Responsibilities And Duties:

1. Maintains a safe and therapeutic patient care environment. 2. Demonstrates competence in providing care and services to patients based on the patients age specific and/or functional needs. 3. All employees shall abide by the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act HIPA a regulations, which help protect the privacy, security, & confidentiality of patient health information. 4. Responsible for ensuring that personal performance reflects the Mission, Vision and Service Pride Standards. 5. Scrubs for cesarean section cases. Following established procedures, dons sterile gown and gloves, and assists surgeons with same. Prepares back table and mayo stand, completes all necessary counts according to policy. 6. Performs in time-out verification process with regional blocks and in C-sections procedures. 7. Observes sterile technique of all personnel. Assists with draping of supplies and equipment to surgeons and assistants during the procedure. Holds retraction devices and acts to anticipate and respond to surgeons needs during course of surgery. 8. Receives surgical specimens. Appropriately places specimen in the correct preservative solution and notifies circulating nurse of the origin of specimen. Ex: placenta, ovarian cyst, etc. 9. Assists with sterile dressing of operative site following closure of wound. 10. Assists with transfer of patient from OR table to gurney. 1 1. Cleans operating room and disposes of used case carts and instruments according to established protocol. Assists in returning supplies and equipment to proper storage. 12. Observing sterile technique, prepares vaginal delivery table. 13. Takes and records vital signs including T-P-R, B/P, HT, WT according to nursing protocol or MD order. This includes both adults and newborns. 14. Assists patients with ADLs includes personal hygiene and grooming, bathing or bedside commode. 15. Performs basic nursing care procedures, ex. enemas, applying and changing new sterile dressings, applying warm and cold compresses. 16. Performs newborn metabolic screen according to established protocol 17. Performs newborn hearing screen according to established protocol. 18. Assists with circumcision procedures, participates in the time-out verification for circumcision; prepares area for procedure and following procedure, responsible for disposal of instruments according to protocol. 19. Performs other duties as assigned, some of which may be essential to the job; stocking OB-GYN unit. 20. Performs basic nursing care procedures