Under general supervision and following established procedures, performs a variety of tasks to maintain the cleanliness and orderliness of the Emergency room
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Occasionally helps to train new employees to perform assigned tasks.
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Selects materials, supplies, and equipment from designated areas. Loads supplies onto cart and transports work cart to assigned areas.
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Sweeps, dust mops and wet-mops hard and resilient floors of assigned areas according to procedures. May use autoscrubber or other types of powered equipment to clean or polish floors.
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Dry dusts, damp dusts and washes horizontal and vertical surfaces, such as walls, doors, partitions, as well as ledges, pipes, corners, and other hard-to-reach surfaces using step stools or ladders as necessary.
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Dusts, washes and polishes moveable and fixed furniture and equipment items such as tables, desks, file cabinets and waste receptacles as required.
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Cleans and polishes mirrors, stainless steel, brass, and other decorative materials as necessary. Removes graffiti.
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Vacuums, spot cleans carpeted floors and weather mats.
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Moves and arranges furniture and equipment in an orderly fashion after cleaning.
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Sanitizes and disinfects sinks, toilets, showers, bathtubs and other restroom fixtures and accessories. Refills dispensers as required.
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Strips, cleans and remakes beds/stretchers upon patient discharge / transfer according to departmental procedures.
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Disposes of waste and linen, including contaminated and/or pathological and chemotherapy waste according to procedures. Relines receptacles with clean bags. Transports trash and linen to designated areas. Removes full needle boxes and replaces with empty ones.
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Reports facility repair needs to the immediate supervisor / designated person as necessary.
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Returns unused supplies to designated areas and cleans and performs simple maintenance on manual and/or powered equipment.
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Empties and transports recycle containers. Processes recycled paper according to HIPAA regulations.
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Assists in disaster response drills.
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Removes, prepares for cleaning and re-hangs draperies, cubicle curtains and shades as required. May use ladder.