Surgical Tech II,ASC PSS Operations

Responsibilities

• Performs technical skill duties in all operating room specialty service areas, ensuring proper technical practices are employed.
• Provides proper maintenance, assembly, handling, and sterilization techniques of specialty instrumentation.
• Follows aseptic technique. Proactively identifies contamination and/or breaks in aseptic technique and implements corrective actions.
• Performs surgical counts. Follows policies and procedures for incorrect counts and reports discrepancies appropriately.
• Establishes and maintains sterile field and ensures team maintains sterile environment independently.
• Limits drugs and solutions; monitors quantities used.
• Aids in the proper identification, preparation, handling, and labeling of surgical specimens.
• Actively participates in the planning and set up of instruments, supplies, and surgical drapes in an organized manner to provide optimal accessibility during the procedure.
• Aids the surgeon, demonstrating an understanding of the patient’s anatomy and abnormalities which affect the surgical procedure.
• Demonstrates appropriate and correct case preparation. Assists in picking cases and planning of instrument needs. Corrects deficiencies at the case level.
• Recognizes and modifies scrubbing procedures based on pertinent information to develop modifications to standard approaches to care and communicates with the surgical team.
• Responds to surgical emergencies and follows hospitalwide emergency management plans.
• Inventsories, receives, and stores supplies under the direction of Surgical Services leadership.
• Serves as a mentor for Surgical Tech peers and participates in teaching, guiding, and evaluating the performance of peers during orientation and annual review process.
• Identifies and reports defective instruments, supplies, and equipment.
• Aids in restocking operating/procedure rooms and sub-sterile areas.
• Aids the registered nurse during the intraoperative implementation phase of nursing practice.
• Participates in data collection for research projects under the direction of an RN.
• Operates complex equipment and other resources in the operating room, troubleshooting as necessary.

Qualifications

• Education Requirements: None required as long as other position qualifications are met.
• Licensure/Certification Requirements: Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider certification.
• Graduate of an accredited Surgical Technology or Nursing Program; or Graduate of a Military Training Program in Surgical Technology; or Formal education/training may be substituted for individuals with 3+ years of prior experience as a surgical tech.
• Professional Experience Requirements: 0-3 years.
• Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements: Successful completion of service specific portion of the UNC Health Surgical Technologist competencies, Strong communication skills/customer service relations, Excellent organizational/priority setting skill.