Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Ensuring that the patient’s information/surgery details and the paperwork match.
- Ensuring the proper operation of the HVAC airflow, and lighting within the operating room.
- Ensuring that all surgical equipment is available and in working order and is then sterilized appropriately prior to each use.
- Ensuring that the operating room is clean and neat and that the operating room bed is cleansed prior to each patient.
- Wearing appropriate operative room gear including head cover and mask.
- Ensuring that all necessary disposable items (e.g. drapes, pads, solutions, etc.) are in ready supply for each day and that all medications are available and not outdated.
- Recording all results at the appropriate place on the patient’s chart.
- Ensuring that all printouts are appropriately labelled.
- Positioning the patient appropriately and comfortably in a polite and courteous manner.
- Preparing the surface area around the eye for surgery using the aseptic technique.
- Record all data during surgery.
- Assisting the scrub nurse and surgeon in preparing and during.
- Maintaining a workspace that is orderly and clean.
- Maintaining all equipment properly.
- Being always courteous and polite to all patients.
- Instilling eye drops immediately post-operatively.
- Addressing any concerns that any patient might have.
- Clean and sterilise room for next use.
- Completing required reports.
Experience
- Experience is an Asset.
Education
- Other trades certificate or diplomas
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment, Work under pressure, Repetitive tasks, Manual dexterity, Attention to detail, Ability to distinguish between colours, Sound discrimination, Combination of sitting, standing, walking, Standing for extended periods, Walking, Bending, crouching, kneeling
Job Type: Part-time
Pay: $18.00-$22.00 per hour
Work Location: In person
