LPN-Anesthesia Tech

JOB SUMMARY

The Anesthesia Technician is responsible and accountable for functioning as a team member for the primary purpose of contributing to the delivery of safe, effective and appropriate patient care. This position works in partnership with the RN and anesthesia care provider to ensure all supplies and equiment are available for the delivery of patient care.

• Overall performance of below indicated essential job duties:
• Stocks anesthesia workroom, stocks anesthesia carts on a daily basis according to par level, sets up latex-free anesthesia cart inventories supplies as necessary ensuring that adequate supplies are available at all times, assures that supplies and equipment needed for anesthesia are adequate and available for case load.
• Retrieves and cleans equipment, delivers stat requests in a timely manner
• Assures proper adapters for pediatric/adult circuits
• Demonstrates knowledge of and ability to obtain anesthesia supplies and drugs (gases, equipment such as Bair Hugger, IV supplies, blood warmers, cables, anesthesia gases, EKG leads and monitors, pulse oximeters, etc.)
• Stocks, maintains and cleans anesthesia machines in OR suites between cases and upon the last case of the day, changes circuits and suction after each case.
• Replaces sharps box according to policy
• Locates all stat supplies (malignant hyperthermia box, fiber optic/emergency airway cart and crash cart)
• Maintains current knowledge of products, their usage and variances affecting cost containment, researches and locates new, requested or needed items for purchase, meets with sales representatives regarding items for use in anesthesia, controls costs of supplies/equipment through efficient management of supplies and services, makes suggestion of new approaches to cost containment

• Minimum requirement:
  • Completion of Licensed Practical Nurse program
  • Must maintain Kentucky LPN license
  • Achieves and maintains American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
• Preferred qualifications:
  • One year of OR scrub experience

• Constantly works near moving mechanical parts
• Constantly exposed to blood and/or body fluids and infection.
• Occasionally exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals
• Occasionally exposed to risk of radiation
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

• Occasionally required to maintain in a stationary position (standing or sitting).
• Frequently required to walk and move about.
• Frequently required to operate a computer and other equipment.
• Frequently required to use fine motor skills to handle and operate instruments/devices.
• Constantly required to lift and/or move items up to 10 pounds.
• Frequently required to lift and/or move items up to 50 pounds.
• Occasionally required to lift and/or move items up to 100 pounds.
• Constantly required to communicate with patients and other care team requiring talking and hearing.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
• Occasionally required to position self in order to meet patient needs.