Surgical Technlgt-Cert

Position Summary

Facilitates patient care by assisting physicians and nursing staff before, during and after surgical procedures by creating and maintaining a sterile field and providing the instruments and supplies required by the surgeons in a sterile manner according to the established plan of patient care. Competently performs with and/or without assistance the majority of assigned cases in a given service/shift; may perform difficult or complicated cases either with or without assistance.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates patient care by assisting the surgeon before, during and after surgical procedures by creating and maintaining a sterile field and providing the instruments and supplies required by the surgeons in a sterile manner according to the established plan for patient care;
• Follows unit standards and processes to deliver age-appropriate care for all patients;
• Demonstrates accountability as an individual and team member in meeting patient/family needs;
• Participates in identifying cost-effective measures for clinical care.

Requirements

• Plans, sets up, performs and cleans up the assigned surgical procedure as a circulator and/or as a scrub tech;
• Demonstrates knowledge of equipment and instrumentation pertaining to case;
• Safely operates special equipment which may be used in surgical cases (e.g. lasers, microscopes, tourniquets, endoscopes, drills, saws, etc.);
• Maintains instrument and equipment integrity;
• Performs room turn-over and terminal cleaning;
• Utilizes supplies appropriately and in a cost effective manner.

Qualifications

• Demonstrates knowledge of and the ability to apply the principles of asepsis in creating and maintaining the sterile field;
• Uses proper technique when scrubbing, gowning, gloving and setting up of sterile fields;
• Recognizes what is sterile and what is unsterile;
• Recognizes contamination and takes proper action to correct situation;
• Continually monitors the sterile field and surgical team to assure that sterility is maintained.

Skills

• Assists nurse in performing sharp, spong,e and instrument counts according to policy as needed;
• Demonstrates proper counting technique for all countables, and applies proper procedures with incorrect counts;
• Demonstrates understanding of exceptions to counts.

Benefits

• Works toward achieving goals and objectives,
• Participates in quality improvement initiatives as requested.

Pay

N/A

Schedule

Variable Hours, Night Shift