Surgical Technologist II

Job Description

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Performs technical skill duties in all operating room specialty service areas, ensuring that proper technical practices are employed according to accepted standards of process.
• 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 assures team maintains sterile environment independently.
• Labels drugs and solutions; monitors quantities used.
• Assists 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.
• Assists the surgeon, demonstrating an understanding of the patient’s anatomy and abnormalities which affect the surgical procedure.
• Assists team members to place and position patient on table.
• Reviews Physician preference lists, checks supplies, and instruments required for each 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 hospital wide emergency management plans.
• Inventories, receives, and stores supplies under the direction of Surgical Services leadership.
• Serves as role model for new hires, on the job trainees, and other identified teammates.
• 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.
• Assists with restocking operating/procedure rooms and sub-sterile areas.
• Assists 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.
• Perform daily cleaning, stocking, verification of all emergency carts are stocked and trays are updated.

Required Education:

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Graduate of an accredited Surgical Technology or Nursing Program.
• Graduate of a Military Training Program in Surgical Technology.

Required Certifications & Licensure:

• Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider certification.

Required Skills & Experience:

• One (1) year experience as a Surgical Technician.

CVOR experience in the following areas strongly preferred:

• Cardiac – Knowledge of Coronary Artery Bypass, Aortic and Mitral Valve, minimally invasive heart valve surgery, ECMO, Balloon Pump insertion, circulatory arrest, aortic dissection, lead placement and removal, TAVR, Impella placement.
• Familiar with various types of wire and catheters used for interventional cases.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Knowledge of various vascular standard OR cases, and Hybrid vascular cases including EVAR and TCAR.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintain Product instructions, and policy and procedure manuals.
• 3+ years of prior experience as a surgical tech.
• Ability to effectively communicate information and respond to questions from patients, physicians, family members and other staff.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide all units of measure, using whole numbers, fractions and decimals.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed written or oral instructions, and to define problems, collect data.

Schedule Hours Per Week: 40.00
Schedule Hours Per Day: 10.00
Schedule Days Per Week: 4.00