Periop Patient Care Assistant

St. Luke's Health–Sugar Land Hospital offers the latest technology and treatments for residents of Fort Bend County and Southwest Houston. Our services range from heart care and neuroscience to robotic surgery. Our recently opened Family Birthing Center offers incomparable care and amenities in a spa-like environment to provide a VIP—Very Important Pregnancy—experience. Since 2008, our experienced doctors, nurses, and support staff have provided expert care to support our community.

Responsible for opening sterile supplies, assisting with patient positioning, coordinating and assisting with the setup and cleanup of the operating rooms as well as assisting team members in the delivery of patients to and from the operating room.

• Reviews the OR schedule daily, tracking and monitoring the necessary pick‐up and delivery of patients to and from the operating rooms as needed to ensure timely surgical starts
• Opens and assists the team with supplies, instrument sets, suture selection and meeting benchmark turnovers
• Assists the surgical suite in patient positioning, surgical preps, clipping and aids in the retrieving of x‐rays, equipment set up and tracking and removing instruments to and from the operating room suites
• Rounds within their assigned surgical rooms to ensure that all turnovers are met and Supports the necessary patient movement and flow
• Assists Registered Nurses, Surgical Scrubs and the Surgeons while preventing the disruption of the surgical case by retrieving supplies, relaying messages and managing the ancillary support of the surgical team
• Anticipates the needs of the surgical team members and provides the necessary support and knowledge of surgical supplies, instruments and sutures
• Sets up and tears down laparoscopic equipment, ensuring that printers, cameras and tubing is properly processed and arranged
• Ensures that used surgical instruments are cleaned, replaced and properly returned to the decontamination department within SPD

High school diploma/GED

One (1) year of related health care experience

Basic Life Support - (AHA BLS-CPR)