Support Services Assistant – Medical

Job Description

Tasks

• Assist with cleaning, sterilizing, setting up and assembling of medical equipment
• Perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
• Take patients’ blood pressure, temperature and pulse
• Weigh, lift, turn and position patients
• Deliver messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments
• Make beds and maintain patients’ rooms
• Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas
• Maintain inventory of supplies
• Transport patients between care facilities
• Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
• Answer call signals to determine patients’ needs
• Collect specimens
• Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing operative areas
• Schedule and confirm appointments
• Perform administrative tasks
• Ensure infection control
• Administer medications
• Provide pre-operative and post-operative personal and comfort care
• Provide wound and bandage care
• Monitor patients and advise physician of any changes in patients’ condition
• Provide technical assistance to surgeons by laying out instruments, setting up equipment, assisting surgical teams with gowns and gloves and passing instruments to surgeons
• Provide patient and family education
• Interview patients
• Ensure that quality nursing care is provided to patients
• Assist with record management