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Responsibilities/Job Description:
Fairview is looking for a Service and Product Associate to join our team at M Health Fairview Southdale Hospital. This is a full-time, benefit-eligible position working 80 hours every two weeks on the night shift. Scheduled hours for this role are 10:00 p.m. to 6:30 a.m., with Fridays and Saturdays off each week. This position is represented by the SEIU union.
To receive, deliver, replenish, clean, and maintain appropriate equipment/supplies/linen/forms. To assist with maintaining inventory control.
Responsibilities
- Receive, deliver, replenish, clean, and maintain supplies/equipment/linen/forms including stat room, patient rooms, inventory locations, and other areas, as appropriate.
- Assist with maintaining adequate inventory levels of equipment and supplies. Understanding of inventory control concepts with the ability to calculate par levels and adjust levels as necessary.
- Identify product name, purpose, and connection (if any) with other products.
- Coordinate the delivery of items arriving at the dock; assemble apply/remove properly tag/transmitter, and log into computer.
- Respond to user/Materials Support Center requests for equipment/supplies/linen/forms with special attention to emergency request.
- Assure that excess inventory in totes is accounted for, documented, and properly routed.
- Match instruments from the Central Processing Center (CPC) to surgical supply pathway packs and linen packs.
- Conduct cycle counts on a routine basis, identifying inventory require adjustments.
- Assure appropriate rotation of rental equipment.
- Locate/remove products due to product recall/product change.
- Perform gross decontamination of instruments, clean, rinse, and properly route utensils. Decontaminate and clean patient care equipment such as, but not limited to: IV pumps’ sequential compression devices; syringe pumps’ warmers; respiratory care equipment; blood pressure apparatus’ walkers’ commodes orthopedic apparatus; case carts etc. Decontaminate and clean laboratory glassware; general laboratory waste; etc.
- Monitor a replace disinfectant in sinks and automatic equipment.
- Answer telephones as needed.
- Operate computer for supply requests, equipment requests, equipment tracking, productivity reporting, etc.
- Follow established policies and procedures.
- Differentiate between requests; urgent, routine, and emergency (life threatening) for products, supplies, and equipment. Respond to requests and according to priority of emergency, urgent and routine, prioritize patient related needs first.
- Differentiate between supply usage, routine, special cause, patient volume change and cyclical changes. Alerts Inventory Specialist to inventory variances, stock-outs, and defects, etc.
- Prioritize meeting inventory needs and patient care needs so there are no short term or long-term negative impacts.
- Demonstrate effective communication skills by listening respectfully, giving balanced feedback directly and honestly, talking with others to clarify differences and utilizing first party communication.
- Collaborate with nursing staff and SPAN staff in making unit inventory decisions.

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