The Operating Room Assistant (ORA) along with doctors, nurses and surgical technicians form the core of the surgical team. Examples of responsibilities of the ORA include...

Transporting patients to and from the operating room, prepping patients for surgery, assisting the surgical nurse with patient positioning on the operating room (OR) bed, maintaining, cleaning and setting up OR equipment for surgical procedures, assisting the doctors and nurses during emergency situations such as performing chest compressions during CPR, retrieving blood products from the blood bank, and...