Central Sterile Tech - St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital

Bon Secours Mercy Health•Youngstown, OH

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Sterile Processing Technician is responsible for the reprocessing of reusable instruments and equipment in the Sterile Processing department of St. Elizabeth Boardman Health Center. Responsibilities include the cleaning, packaging, sterilization, and distribution of reusables. Completes the OR case carts. Maintains appropriate Infection Control and JCAHO standards in work area. Works under the direction of the Lead Surgical Tech, Surgery Coordinator and Perioperative Nurse Manager.

Requirements

High School Diploma required.
Must possess basic computer skills.
Follows detailed written and oral instructions.
Completes specific, routine tasks.
Requires reading, writing, and arithmetic skills.

Nice To Haves

CRCST (Certified Registered Central Service Technician) certificate or obtain within one year of hire.
Prior Central Service or Surgery experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Assures the maintenance of adequate stock on hand by monitoring inventory levels, coordinating with the inventory coordinator for replenishment, avoiding excessive stock buildup, maintaining a neat and clean work environment, processing requisitions accurately and timely, ensuring proper organization, location, rotation and identification of reusable supplies, and assuring proper entries are made on stock issues, receipts, and returns to maintain an accurate perpetual inventory.
Completes the sterile reprocessing of surgical instrumentation and linen packs by following procedures and standards for preparing and handling sterile items, demonstrating appropriate procedures such as the use of sterilizers and setting up surgical and/or treatment trays, ensuring aseptic techniques are employed, adhering to departmental dress code, assisting with orientation and in-service training, maintaining accurate documentation of sterilization logs and bacteriological indicators, working closely with the operating room and other ancillary areas on tray set-ups, ensuring OR case gathering is performed accurately and timely, and assuring patient care equipment is cleaned and set up appropriately.
Interpersonal Relations: Communicates with Surgery in a courteous and efficient manner regarding stat case carts, requests for additional instrumentation and problems. Provides appropriate and timely follow-up to questions regarding the status of a particular item. Informs the manager of shortages in supplies used for processing instruments and equipment. Works with manager to solve problems and improve work environment.
Must adhere to the hospital policy for maintaining confidentiality. Uses a PC to access surgery schedule and to generate surgical case cart pick list. Must maintain confidentiality of surgical patient information.
Participates in educational programs, in-services and seminars as assigned. Attends meetings as required.
Performs all related tasks and duties as assigned by the manager or designate.