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Job Summary Weekend Day Shift 7a-3:30p. A minimum of an initial three-week orientation is required. Under direct supervision of the Emergency Department Administrative Manager, the Support Associate (SA) ensures that all supplies and equipment are available and maintained in the Emergency Department. The SA stocks, cleans and maintains supplies and equipment in treatment bays and in treatment area carts and specialty carts.

The SA inventories and stocks special purchase items and items in central supply rooms, and works with staff from other hospital departments to continually improve the Environment of Care in the Emergency Department. Please see below for full job description:

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Central Supply Management Completes inventory, maintains par levels, and stocks Emergency Department supply rooms, closets and medication rooms on a daily basis. Maintains overall organization and cleanliness of supply rooms. Works with hospital Materials Management staff to ensure that Emergency Department supplies are delivered from central supply area to the Emergency Department clean supply room. Maintains inventory of special purchase items.

Supply and Equipment Management/Daily Operations Responds to urgent pages from clinical staff. Provides customer service support to end users. Checks each treatment bay in area(s) assigned for shift. Ensures that all supplies and equipment are present (including headwall items), clean, in working order, and organized. Replaces, cleans or makes repairs as necessary. Items to check in each bay include but are not limited to monitors, cables, lead wires, otoscope/opthalmoscope, suction equipment, oxygen equipment, defibrillator, pumps, temporal artery thermometers, and blood pressure setups.

Checks, stocks and organizes supply carts in each treatment bay in area(s) assigned for shift. Checks, stocks and organizes specialty supply carts in area(s) assigned for shift. Specialty supply carts include but are not limited to the difficult airway cart, intubation carts, Broselow carts, OB/GYN cart, procedural sedation cart and ENT cart. Checks, maintains, cleans and organizes equipment located in area(s) assigned for shift, including centrally managed equipment.

Equipment includes but is not limited to ultrasound machines, portable vital sign monitors, doppler machines, EKG machines, IV poles, soiled linen hampers, computers on wheels. Checks, maintains and cleans equipment located in Acute Equipment storage area. Delivers soiled equipment to Sterile Processing Department or Endoscopy cleaning area for decontamination. Ensures that equipment is retrieved after it is cleaned and is placed back in proper location for use.

Equipment that needs to be cleaned in this manner includes but is not limited to intubating bronchoscopes and associated equipment, and endocavity ultrasound probe. Monitors expiration dates of commodities, by rotating stock and visually checking expiration dates, to ensure usage or return to inventory prior to expiring. Collaborates with Emergency Department clinical and administrative staff, Environmental Services staff, Biomedical Engineering staff, Sterile Processing staff and others to identify and…