Women's Health Certified Surgical Technician - PRN

About the role

The Women's Health Certified Surgical Technician is responsible for decontaminating reusable medical supplies and equipment, disassembling, cleaning, sterilizing, and reassembling equipment. They inspect items for gross contamination after pre-sterilization and prepare trays and sets. They package items to protect points, cutting edges, and delicate instruments and ensure effective penetration medium. They select appropriate methods for sterilization, load, unload, and operate sterilizers and other related equipment. They periodically test equipment for effectiveness and record chemical, mechanical, and biological results.

Responsibilities

• Disassembles, cleans, sterilizes, and reassembles equipment.
• Inspects items for gross contamination after pre-sterilization.
• Prepares trays and sets.
• Packages items to protect points, cutting edges, and delicate instruments and to ensure effective penetration medium.
• Selects appropriate methods for sterilizing.
• Loads, unloads, and operates sterilizers and other related equipment.
• Periodically tests equipment for effectiveness and absolute sterilization.
• Adheres to recommended parameters for each sterilizer and records chemical, mechanical, and biological results and informs supervisor of any positive test results.
• Tests, cleans, sterilizes, stores, issues, and explains proper use of equipment.
• Inspects sterilized items for indication of proper sterilization, labels items to show sterilization data, and stores items to preserve sterile conditions.
• Fills requests for items based on daily schedules of individual requisitions.
• Restocks Crash Carts, ensuring 100% compliance with established policies and inventory control.
• Performs periodic inspections as directed by schedule cyclic maintenance program.
• Exchanges Crash Cart immediately after notification of a Code E or other use to include cleanup, restock, and sterilization of used cart.
• Assists in the inventory of patient care charges.
• Fills requisitions after normal duty hours.
• Assists in surgical cases as a primary scrub person, handling instruments, supplies, and equipment utilized for surgical procedures. Anticipates the needs of the surgeon and ensures quality patient care during the operative procedure. Understands the procedure being performed and is in constant observation for maintenance policies and procedures.
• Works as a patient care aide on the PP unit, performing ADLs such as bathing the patient, oral care, linen changing, ambulation, peri-care, passing trays, TCDB of surgical patients, obtaining vital signs, I&O, Foley care, and application/removal of SCD hoses. Assists in the nursery with passing of newborn babies, folding linen, and stocking cribs, and feeding babies.
• Aware of "CODE B" policy/procedure and is aware of their role in and actual Code Pink Drill.
• Assists in the Labor and Delivery area, setting up sterile tables and cleaning instruments after deliveries. Assures hourly rounding with intention is done on the patients Q1-2 hours on the PP floor utilizing "Aidet" to ensure safety and quality patient care. Provides hand-off communication to the on-coming scrub tech.

Qualifications

• Minimum Education: Graduate from accredited school of Surgical Technology.
• Required Licenses: Certified Surgical Technologist.
• Mandatory Certification: Must be nationally certified as a Certified Surgical Technologist and hold BLS certification.
• Required Experience: Minimum of 1 year of Surgical experience is encouraged.