Certified Scrub Tech- Days- Full Time

Surgery Partners, Inc•McKinney, TX

9d•Onsite

About The Position

This is a full-time position for a Certified Scrub Tech who will work day shifts. The role involves preparing operating rooms, ensuring sterile equipment, assisting surgeons during operations, maintaining a sterile environment, monitoring surgical tools and supplies, positioning patients, performing surgical hand scrubs, assisting with sterile drapes, preparing specimens, anticipating the needs of the surgical team, assisting with dressings and patient transfers, performing inventory checks, restocking supplies, disposing of waste, participating in room turnover and housekeeping, complying with hospital policies, participating in time-out procedures, maintaining patient confidentiality, participating in cost-saving initiatives, preparing for upcoming cases, transporting instruments to decontamination, and demonstrating knowledge of decontamination, assembly, packaging, and sterilization. The role also requires adherence to attendance policies, participation in departmental meetings, and reporting unsafe situations. The employee must demonstrate knowledge of and participation in hospital performance improvement, infection control, and risk management programs, as well as cultural, spiritual, and age-related considerations.

Requirements

High school graduate or equivalent required
Current certification as a Surgical Technologist
Minimum of two years' work experience as a CST at an acute care or rural hospital.
BLS current at time of hire

Responsibilities

Prepare operating rooms by setting up surgical instruments, sterile supplies and equipment.
Ensure all surgical equipment/instrumentation is sterilized and functioning properly prior to presentation to sterile field and use.
Assist surgeons during operations by passing instruments and supplies, providing retraction, improving visual field, and other duties as delegated with the scope of the CST.
Maintain a sterile environment through adherence to sterile/aseptic technique to minimize the risk of infection in accordance with recognized national standards and hospital specific policies and procedures.
Monitor and account for all surgical tools and supplies throughout the procedure. Consistently participate in surgical counts at appropriate times. Accounts for sponges, needles, instruments and other potential foreign bodies.
Help position patients for surgery as needed.
Performs surgical hand scrub/cleaning and dons sterile gloves according to gowning and gloving policy. Maintains proper sterile technique when gowning and gloving surgeon and draping patient.
Assist with application of sterile drapes.
Prepare and manage specimens on the sterile field.
Anticipate the needs of the surgical team and respond promptly.
Assist in the application of dressings and safe transfer of patients to stretcher.
Perform inventory checks and restock operating room supplies as needed.
Properly dispose of biohazardous or pathological waste per facility protocol.
Participates in room turnover and housekeeping duties as needed. Returns unused supplies, instruments and equipment at end of the day. Participates in departmental restocking duties.
Compiles with hospital policy and procedures.
Consistently participates in time out procedure with full engagement; confirms site marking prior to incision.
Maintains patient confidentiality.
Participates in facility cost saving initiatives.
Participates in case pulling duties to prepare for upcoming cases by close attention to surgeon preference cards.
Transports instruments to decontamination area utilizing appropriate technique and incompliance with established policies and procedures.
Demonstrates knowledge of instrument decontamination, assembly, packaging and sterilization.
Adheres to attendance, punctuality, meal and break time period policies.
Attends departmental meetings or document review of materials presented.
Adheres to patient confidentiality expectations.
Reports unsafe situations to supervisor and reports as needed through electronic variance system.
Demonstrates knowledge of and participation in hospital performance improvement, infection control and risk management programs.
Demonstrates knowledge of cultural, spiritual, and age-related considerations when interacting/caring for patients and coworkers.