Sterile Processing Technician II

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The posting includes description about Banner Health, department, etc. We need to decide sections: maybe "About the role", "Responsibilities", "Requirements", "Qualifications", "Skills", "Benefits", "Pay", "Schedule". Only include sections if posting has real specific content. We have details: Primary City/State, Department Name, Work Shift, Job Category, etc. Also shift details: Employment Type: Full-time, Hours per Week: 5-8s | 40 hours (looks weird), Shift: 1p-8:30p, Schedule: Monday-Friday with call, On Call: Weekend call rotation required, Enjoy a flat rate $5/hr for call, $1/hour weekend shift differential and an 18%-night shift differential, when applicable. Thus we have Pay info: $5/hr for call, $1/hour weekend shift differential, 18% night shift differential. Also schedule: Monday-Friday with call, weekend call rotation required. Also shift: 1p-8:30p. Thus we can include Pay and Schedule sections. Benefits: Not explicitly listed besides differentials; maybe not enough. Could include "Benefits" if there is mention of benefits? Not present. So omit Benefits. Qualifications: Minimum Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications present. So we can have a "Qualifications" section containing both minimum and preferred. Responsibilities: The posting includes many duties under "Core Functions" and "Position Summary". So we can have Responsibilities. Skills: Not explicitly listed; maybe we can infer but better not to create unless explicit. So omit Skills. About the role: Could be the introductory paragraph about Banner Health and department description. That could be "About the role". We'll include that. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID. We must not include boilerplate like EEO statement, Privacy Policy, etc. Remove those. We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. Must keep details like shift, pay differentials, etc. We need to format with

for section headings. Use

• for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use

  for prose. We need to decide what to put in lists: Responsibilities can be a list of duties. Requirements/Qualifications can be a list. We need to preserve all substantive information; we can't lose any detail. So we need to include all the duties described. That's a lot; we can break into list items each covering a duty. We must not invent or summarize away detail; but we can combine similar items? The instruction says "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." That suggests we should not omit any detail; but we can maybe keep them as separate list items, each capturing a distinct duty. Summarizing away detail would be like removing specifics. We need to keep specifics like "Operates steam and hydrogen peroxide sterilizers of various sizes." etc. Thus we need to include all those specifics as list items. Similarly for qualifications: Minimum Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications details. We also need to include the shift details: Work Shift: Day, but also specifics: Shift: 1p-8:30p, Schedule: Monday-Friday with call, On Call: Weekend call rotation required, Pay differentials. We need to include Pay section: maybe list the differentials. Schedule section: maybe list shift and schedule. We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual specifics. Now produce HTML. Structure:

  About the role

  ... (prose about Banner Health, department, etc.)

  Responsibilities

  • ...
  ...

  Qualifications

  Maybe split into Minimum and Preferred? Could have two subheadings? But only allowed headings are those listed; we could still use

  for each? The instruction says use

  for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid additional headings beyond those, but better to stick to those. We could have Qualifications and inside we can have

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  for preferred, or use

  with sub-items. We'll do:

  Qualifications

  Minimum Qualifications:

  • ...
  ...

  Preferred Qualifications:

  • ...
  ...
  That preserves details.

  Pay

  • Flat rate $5/hr for call
  • $1/hour weekend shift differential
  • 18% night shift differential when applicable

  Schedule

  • Shift: 1p-8:30p
  • Schedule: Monday-Friday with call
  • Weekend call rotation required
  • Full-time, 40 hours per week
  We also have Work Shift: Day (but shift is 1p-8:30p which is evening). Might still include. We need to include Primary City/State and Department Name maybe in About the role. Let's craft About the role prose: "Banner Health was named to Fortune’s Most Innovative Companies in America list for the third consecutive year and named to Newsweek's list of Most Trustworthy Companies in America for the second year in a row. The Sterile Processing Department at Banner - University Medical Center South in Tucson, Arizona supports the operating rooms by decontaminating, processing, sterilizing, storing, and distributing medical/surgical supplies and equipment. The department operates in a sterile lab-type setting behind the scenes." We need to keep all substantive info: also mention that it's an ancillary department of the Operating rooms, etc. Also mention that the hospital is a comprehensive academic medical center with ED, trauma center, Behavioral Health Pavilion, etc. Also mention accreditation, etc. Also mention specialty services. We should include all that info in About the role. Let's extract from posting: - Banner Health was named to Fortune’s Most Innovative Companies in America list for the third consecutive year and named to Newsweek's list of Most Trustworthy Companies in America for the second year in a row. - We’re honored to be recognized for our commitment to the latest health care advancements and excellent patient care. - Central Sterile Processing is an ancillary department of the Operating rooms within a healthcare facility in which medical/surgical supplies and equipment, both sterile and non-sterile, are decontaminated, processed, sterilized, stored and used for patient care. All this takes place behind the scenes in a sterile lab type setting. - Banner - University Medical Center South is a comprehensive academic medical center that includes an Emergency department, a state-designated trauma center and a Behavioral Health Pavilion. - We are an Arizona Department of Health Services-accredited Cardiac Receiving Center and a Nurses Improving Care for Health system Elders-designated senior-friendly hospital. - The hospital is staffed by physicians who are full-time faculty of the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson and is managed by Banner Health under an operating agreement with Pima County. - Our specialty services include inpatient and outpatient behavioral health, treatment and education for diabetes, innovative geriatrics care and comprehensive orthopedics. We need to keep all that. Now Responsibilities: we need to capture all duties from Position Summary and Core Functions. Let's list them: Position Summary: - Performs as an integral part of the OR team with limited supervision. - Demonstrates accountability for operating room readiness ensuring sterile surgical instrumentation and disposable supplies are complete and ready for a procedure prior to the preceding patient leaving the operating room. - Responsible for the proper care and handling of all general and specialty instrumentation including the cleaning, decontamination, disassemble/reassembly, quality assurance, instrument identification, set assembly, packaging, sterilization, and distribution of surgical instrumentation for PeriOp Services, hospital departments, and clinics. - This position requires well manner communications and the ability to communicate effectively through reading, writing, and speaking in person. Core Functions: - Provides decontamination and sterile processing support to PeriOp Services, ED, ICU, hospital wide departments, and clinics both on and off campus, and ambulatory surgery centers. - Provides various levels of service for the management of sterile surgical instrumentation and disposable patient care supplies. - Support may-or-may-not include, decontamination of surgical instruments, assembly/sterilization, sterile instrument storage, partial or complete case cart support, OR core tech support and high-level disinfection. - Responsible for the decontamination, assembly, and packaging of surgical instruments following established protocols, instructions for use (IFU) as well as performs required quality assurance, repairs, reassembly, documentation, sterility handling, and storage of specialized surgical instruments. - Maintains required sterilization logs and quality assurance records relating to all equipment associated for the purpose of decontamination, HLD disinfection, and sterilization. - Ability to identify interpret the surgical schedule and medical terminology as it pertains to procedures requiring sterile surgical instrumentation and disposable supplies. - Able to address and communicate special needs to minimize delays to surgery. - Responds to emergent calls from the Operating Room and performs preliminary investigations. - Determines priority level of instrumentation requests and other hospital needs. - Directs services in a competent and professional manner while assuring OR priorities are completed in a timely manner - Able to differentiate surgical instrumentation that is surgery owned, consignment/loaner, hospital depart, surgeon, ambulatory surgery center, and clinics both on and off campus. - Completes necessary tracking of surgical instruments with a paper log sheet or computer process for instrumentation leaving the area. - Reports needed replacement of surgical instruments to maintain the inventory and support readiness of sets. - Utilizes specialized equipment for the decontamination, high-level disinfection, and sterilization of surgical instrumentation according to the device and equipment manufacturer’s recommendations and hospital policy. - Operates steam and hydrogen peroxide sterilizers of various sizes. - Operates automated surgical instrument washers, ultrasonics, flush pumps, visualization devices, and cart washers to include high-level disinfectors where supported. - Operates various quality assurance testing equipment associated to flexible endoscopic scopes, transesophageal ultrasound probes, and electro-surgical insulation defect detector for laparoscopic and energy provided surgical instrumentation. - Utilizes heat detection devices to allow steam sterilized surgical instrumentation to be released for use without risking burns to staff and patients. - Operates demagnetizers of stainless-steel instruments for ophthalmic and delicate cardiac surgical instrumentation for safe use on patients. - Utilizes various borescope devices to inspect inner channels of lumened surgical instrumentation and flexible scopes. - Maintains a clean and safe environment by adhering to Standard Precautions and Infection Control practices. - Staff follow protocols for proper donning of personnel protective equipment (PPE) while completing the decontamination process referencing IFU’s supplied by the manufacturers. - Maintain flexibility to rotate shifts and adjust hours as needed, maintain a work record of regular attendance, timely arrivals, and departures, maintain professional appearance appropriate to position and function. We need to keep all these as list items. Some are long sentences; we can keep them as is. Now Qualifications: Minimum Qualifications: - High school diploma/GED or equivalent working knowledge. - Minimum one (1) year experience as a Sterile Processing Technician OR certified as an SPD Technician (CSPDT) or Certified Registered Central Service Technician (CRCST) with less than one year of experience. - Must have mechanical aptitude with the ability to break down moving parts, clean, lubricate and reassemble, problem solve incomplete trays and missing instrumentation and have effective organizational, communication and human relation skills. Preferred Qualifications: - Instrument management tracking system. - Complete national certification as an SPD Technician (CSPDT) or Certified Registered Central Service Technician (CRCST) within one year of hire. - Additional Related Education And/or Experience Preferred. We need to keep all. Now Pay and Schedule as above. We