Job Description
Job Summary
Coordinates and completes preoperative assessments for patients prior to surgery. Responsibilities include reviewing medical history, performing or verifying required tests (labs, EKGs, imaging), ensuring patient readiness, providing pre-surgical instructions, and communicating with providers to reduce surgical risks and prevent delays or cancellations.
Job Responsibilities
Coordinates and completes preoperative assessments for patients prior to surgery. Responsibilities include reviewing medical history, performing or verifying required tests (labs, EKGs, imaging), ensuring patient readiness, providing pre-surgical instructions, and communicating with providers to reduce surgical risks and prevent delays or cancellations.
Job Responsibilities
- Prepare patient for surgery or procedure. Ensure the patient chart is initiated, complete the patient assessment, confirm the procedure and/or surgical site, initiate patient IV, perform ordered labs, dispense ordered preop medications and fully document all information and care provided.
- Provide instructions to patient and support persons as to what to expect throughout the surgery process.
- Coordinate patient care needs with other disciplines to ensure continuity of care.
- Monitor patient recovery from anesthesia a...