Job Title: Orthopedic Surgical Tech (Certification not required)
Job Type: 13-week Contract to Permanent
Schedule: Days, 5x8s. 6:30a-3p. No nights, weekends, or major holidays
- This is a multi-specialty Ambulatory Surgery Center. Surgical Techs with a specialty are expected to cross-train to become multi-specialty.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Scrubs for cases according to established sterile procedures, dons sterile gown and gloves, and assists the surgeons with the same. In doing so, set up back table and mayo stand, count all necessary items according to procedure, check case supplies, and prepare supplies/equipment utilizing preference cards to assemble all necessary supplies/equipment before patient arrives in room. Displays competency (via leveling program guidelines) in less than 5 services. Services include General, Plastics, Ortho, Podiatry, Gyne, GU, Eye, ENT, and Oral Surgery.
- Observes sterile techniques of all personnel, assists in draping, passes instruments, sponges, sutures, and other sterile supplies and equipment to surgeons and assistants during procedures, holds retraction devices, and acts to anticipate and respond to surgeons needs during surgery.
- Receives surgical specimens, places in same preservative solutions, and notify circulating nurses of source of material.
- Counts sponges, needles, and instruments used during surgery before closing, and assists with sterile dressing of operative site following closing.
- Assists with circulating duties under the direct supervision of registered nurses.
- Cleans operating room and disposes of used case carts and instruments according to established procedures. Assists in returning supplies and equipment to proper storage; separates, cleans, and prepares instruments as necessary, and so forth.
- Functions as a clinical resource person to various department personnel, new employees, and student technologists. Assist by precepting students and new employees.
- Attends mandatory department meetings.
