GI Tech Lab | GI Downtown | Full Time | Day

Responsibilities

• Proper handing, preventive maintenance, cleaning of endoscopes per policy.
• Maintain surgical technician experience by cross training in operating room and maintain competencies.
• Clean and prepare for decontamination, reusable endoscopic instruments per policy, including endoscopes and reusable equipment such as biopsy forceps.
• Assisting with room turnover, to include cleaning stretcher, Endo cart and other surfaces.
• Maintain general medical supplies in room per par level list.
• Maintain GI specific supplies per par list for assigned room.
• Ensuring proper equipment in room prior to initiation of conscious sedation (i.e. Ultrasound for Liver Biopsy, ERCP supply cart for ERCPs).
• Knowledge of CMore operating system - including how to initiate exam report, end report and generate pathology slip if needed.
• Assist in timely transfer of patients into GI procedure room (i.e. helping ensure all rooms have patients in them by 0800 and 1300).
• Prior to departure at end of each day, ensuring GI supplies are stocked per par list in the room or rooms assigned.
• Maintenance of Cydex Log Book to include daily testing of Cydex concentration and maintaining logbook when Reprocessor is flushed and new solution added.
• Maintaining and developing par level list of GI supplies for each room, and general medical supplies for each room.
• Conducting product testing and filling out product testing sheets when trying or trialing new equipment.
• Performs all other duties as assigned by management within job scope.

Qualifications

• Required Education: High School Diploma or GED
• Necessary Skills: Knowledge of patient care and basic human needs throughout the life span; Knowledge of medical terminology; Knowledge of aseptic techniques; Knowledge of acute and chronic disease process; Knowledge of standard precautions; Basic knowledge of anatomic structure and human body system.
• Required Experience: 1-2 years as a Surgical Tech, GI Tech, Medical Assistant, CNA, Patient Care Associate, Corpsman or other relevant medical experience.
• Preferred Experience: Two (2) or more years working in a health care environment as GI Tech or PCA.
• Preferred Licensure/Certifications: Certified Endoscope Reprocessor
• Age of Patients Served: Adult (18-64 years) Geriatric (=>65 years)