Sterile Processing Tech - Sterile Processing - Varied Shifts - PRN

About the role

Our Sterile Processing Department has an essential role in the delivery of safe patient care. Our team makes sure that all medical/surgical supplies are cleaned, prepared, processed, stored, and issued for patient care and maintains a high standard for sterilization technique and product quality throughout our facility.

Responsibilities

• Monitors workstation supply levels and restocks sterile processing supplies as necessary
• Distributes supplies and/or equipment appropriately and in a courteous and timely manner
• Selects appropriate process to decontaminate surgical instruments and equipment safely and effectively
• Washes/decontaminates instruments, instrument trays, and other supplies according to established departmental procedure
• Assembles and packages instruments and trays according to procedures
• Inspects instruments wear and breakage during identification and assembly procedures
• Disposes of all contaminated waste material properly
• Use of appropriate procedures for sterilizer parameter testing and interpretation of test results, i.e., biological challenge tests, Bowie-Dick/Dart tests, and load challenge tests
• Completes and maintains applicable documentation
• Operates sterilizers and other equipment for processing instruments and supplies correctly and safely
• Use of appropriate procedures for cleaning sterile processing machinery
• Completes and maintains cleaning logs
• Accurately completes instrument inventory checklists and load records utilizing appropriate computer application and scanners
• Perform other duties assigned by Department management according to policies and procedures and the mission of Woman's Hospital

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent (experience may be considered in lieu of education requirements)
• One year of experience in a hospital sterile processing department
• Certification in surgery or sterile processing preferred
• Considerable knowledge of instrumentation and sterilization

Pay

• Non-Certified: $14.18 – $20.03
• Certified: $15.24 - $21.53
• Plus PRN differential

Schedule

Varied Shifts; Days/Evenings