Summary

Job Description

Job Title: Anesthesia Technician

This job is located in Lancaster, PA.

Full time, 1.0 FTE, Varied Shifts, Holiday, weekend, and call rotation.

POSITION SUMMARY:

Responsible for serving as an active member of the Perioperative Team. The main responsibility of this job is to assist with all phases of the perioperative procedure to include but not limited to: basic operating /block room set-up and turnover, assist anesthesia providers, patient preparation and positioning, stocking of supplies, anesthetic blocks, setting up sterile trays for lines and any other job needed to be completed within Perioperative Services as directed by the Circulating Nurse, Charge Nurse, Coordinator, Anesthesia Technologist Facilitator or Anesthesia provider. Patient care includes care to patients in the following age groups: neonatal (birth to 30 days), pediatric (30 days through 12 years), adolescent (13 through 18 years), adult (19 through 64 years) and geriatric (65 years and above).

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Qualified individuals must have the ability (with or without reasonable accommodation) to perform the following duties:

Anesthesia

• Prepare for hemodynamic monitoring and insertion of invasive hemodynamic monitors.

• Assist with Anesthesiologist with peripheral nerve blocks within any location of LGH

Assists the Anesthesiologist/CRNA during cases. Duties include:

• Performs daily anesthesia machine checks

• preparing peripheral IV’s

• IV insertion to be under the direct supervision of the anesthesiologists or CRNA

• Assist with invasive lines

• drawing blood samples

• assisting with blood and fluid replacement

• preparing medications under the direct supervision of the anesthesiologist/CRNA

• Performs point of care testing and the QA’s associated

• Prepares fluid warmers

• Set up rapid transfusion devices

• Assist with difficult airway management

• Support anesthesia in non O.R. locations (endo, IVU, EP & Cath lab, ER)

• Stocks anesthesia carts

• Checks anesthesia equipment

• Orders anesthesia supplies and maintains par levels and adjusts inventory as indicated

• Performs daily checks of anesthesia equipment and supplies in all Operating Rooms

• Decontaminates anesthesia TEE equipment

• Provides support to the Surgical Team: ( as a team member will perform without hesitation or direction the duties below to maintain the flow of surgery)

• OR room preparation: Correct surgical bed with linens; Retrieve equipment as required; Assist with Opening sterile supplies

• Patient Preparation intra-op: Assist with prep & patient positioning using proper body mechanics; Assist with placement of OR equipment; Assist scrub team with sterile supplies, (Tying the backs of the scrub gowns); Supply/equipment retrieval prior to and during procedures and post procedure

• Intra-op:

• Transport specimens as requested

• Assure bed/stretcher is ready for patient at end of surgery

• Post-op

• Lifting help from OR bed to stretcher

• Flat surface cleaning

• Change out used anesthesia circuit and suction tubing

• Mop floor

• Remove trash and deliver to appropriate place

• Remove equipment and return to appropriate storage

• Patient transport as required

• End of shift

• Re-stock OR’s

• Return equipment/supplies to appropriate areas

• Report to the next shift status of OR’s

• Routinely performs necessary housekeeping independently within assigned area of department.

• Other duties

• Observes and reports unusual situations, reactions, effects, or conditions to responsible person. Reports equipment that is out of order.

• Understands and follows universal protocol

• Understands the parameters of the sterile field and traffic flow for the Operating Room

• Other duties as deemed necessary by the Department Manager

SECONDARY FUNCTIONS: The following duties are considered secondary to the primary duties listed above:

• Transport patients from the Nursing Units to the Operating Room.

• Transports patients from the PACU to the Nursing Unit

• Trouble shoot the Operating Room electrical beds.

• With guidance from the surgical team connect electrical equipment to the outlets and assist with moving equipment up to the sterile field.

• Knowledgeable of how to take pieces of equipment out of service

• Participates in the on-call responsibilities for this position as required.

• Other duties as assigned.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• A high school diploma or equivalent (GED)

• One (1) year of patient care experience or one (1) year of perioperative services experience

• A health care provider in good standing with Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal and state health insurance programs, i.e. not excluded from participation in Medicare, Medicaid or any other federal or state health insurance program

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• One (1) year of Anesthesia related experience

• Graduate of Anesthesia Tech program

• Certified Anesthesia Tech

COGNITIVE REQUIREMENTS

ATTENTION/CONCENTRATION – The following level of ability is essential for the jobholder to focus on certain aspects of current experience and reject others:

The position requires the ability to attend to a specific stimulus without being distracted by extraneous environmental stimuli. The individual must be able to attend to environmental detail with the ability to separate essential from non-essential or irrelevant stimuli. The attention skills required are generally considered to be automatic - - passive, but focused with an intact capacity for select perception.

NEW LEARNING AND MEMORY – The following level of ability is essential for the jobholder to learn and retain material:

Job demands are only moderately routine and predictable. Minor changes may occur which require the individual to be able to understand and carry out detailed but uninvolved instructions.

PROBLEM SOLVING, REASONING AND CREATIVE THINKING – The following level of ability that is essential for the jobholder to think (in order to solve a problem) by combining two or more elements from past experience or imaginative thought:

The requirement for autonomous problem solving or creativity of thought in the position is minimal. Problems encountered tend to involve a few concrete variables in or from standardized situations. Typically involves adhering to a chart or set procedure.

APTITUDES: The following are essential requirements of the position in relation to job-worker situations. These items describe how a worker must adapt, adjust, conform or act:

Repetitive work: Ability to continuously perform the same type of work for extended periods of time, according to set procedures, sequence or pace.

Performing under stressful conditions: Ability to perform under stress when confronted with emergency, critical, unusual, or dangerous situations, or in situations in which working speed and sustained attention are critical aspects of the job. Is subject to danger or risk, or to tension as a regular, consistent part of the job.

Communication: Ability to exchange information with others clearly and concisely; to present ideas, facts and technical information.

Interpersonal relations: Ability to maintain relationships that facilitate task accomplishment; to cooperate and resolve conflicts; to recognize needs and be sensitive of others.

EQUIPMENT USAGE REQUIREMENTS

Equipment/Tools: Computer, Phone, Copier, Printer, Fax, Office Supplies, syringe, transducer, anesthesia machines, physiological monitors, computer keyboard, POCT equipment, OR beds, Neptune suction devices, invasive equipment.

Software: Microsoft Office Products

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

Rarely 0-10%; Occasionally 11-35%; Frequently 36-70%; Continuously 71-100%

Body Position/Movement :

• Sit: Rarely

• Stand: Continuously

• Walk: Continuously

• Bend: Rarely

• Push: Frequently

• Pull: Frequently

• Kneel/Squat: Rarely

• Reach: Frequently

• Twist: Rarely

• Balance: Rarely

• Climb: Occasionally

Lifting: Degree of physical exertion is : Heavy, exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

Sensory Abilities specifically required:

• Vision

• Hearing

PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT

WORKING CONDITIONS: Position involves exposure to the following harmful elements:

• Bio hazardous Waste

• Chemicals

• High Pressure Steam/Gas

• Radioactive Agents

Disclaimer: This job description is not intended and should not be construed to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with the job. It is intended to be a reflection of those principal job elements essential for recruitment and selection, for making fair job evaluations, and for establishing performance standards. The percentages of time spent performing job duties are estimates, and should not be considered absolute. The incumbent shall perform all other functions and/or be cross-trained as shall be determined at the sole discretion of management, who has the right to amend, modify, or terminate this job in part or in whole. Incumbent must be able to perform all job functions safely.

Benefits At A Glance:

PENN MEDICINE LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH offers the following benefits to employees:

• 100% Tuition Assistance at The Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences

• Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays

• Shift, Weekend and On-Call Differentials

• Health, Dental and Vision Coverage

• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability

• Retirement Savings Account with Company Matching

• Child Care Subsidies

• Onsite Gym and Fitness Classes

Disclaimer

PENN MEDICINE LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law.

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PENN MEDICINE LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH, a member of the University of Pennsylvania Health System (Penn Medicine), is a not-for-profit health system with a comprehensive network of care encompassing Lancaster General Hospital (LGH), Women & Babies Hospital and the Lancaster Rehabilitation Hospital (a partnership with Kindred Healthcare). We are an Accredited Trauma Center-Level I through the Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation with 805 Licensed beds. Our membership in Penn Medicine brings together the strengths of a world-renowned, not-for-profit academic medical center and a nationally recognized, not-for-profit community healthcare system.

Outpatient services are provided at the Downtown Outpatient and Suburban Outpatient Pavilions, along with additional outpatient centers and Express and Urgent Care locations throughout the region. Lancaster General Health Physicians is a network of more than 300 primary-care and specialty physicians, at more than 40 offices throughout the region.