**Req Number** 183422

Job Description

Assists nursing personnel in giving quality care to patients in the Operating Room. Functions as a member of the surgical services team by performing perioperative tasks for patients having surgical procedures under the direction of the circulating nurse. The primary responsibility is that of scrub nurse in the Operating Room.

Job Responsibility

1.Performs duties and responsibilities of a 'scrub' person under the direction of a registered professional nurse.

2.Assists the circulating nurse by gathering all instruments, supplies, equipment for each case in assigned room with use of surgeon's preference card.

3.Checks and confirms sterility tapes, dates, and integrity of wrappers.

4.Opens sterile supplies for assigned cases.

5.Checks and trouble shoots equipment for proper functioning prior to use and confirms suction is working. Appropriately removes malfunctioning equipment ...