Hospital - Endoscopic GI Tech (06:30-3:00)

UT Health San Antonio•San Antonio, TX

About The Position

The Endoscopic Gastroenterology Technician supports physicians and nurses during diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic procedures. This role involves preparing and maintaining equipment, ensuring a sterile environment, and assisting in the safe and effective execution of procedures. Collaborates with the medical team to facilitate invasive and minimally invasive procedures, ensuring a safe environment, proper functioning equipment, and procedures are conducted in a manner that maximizes patient safety.

Requirements

Strong understanding of infection control policies and aseptic techniques to maintain a sterile and safe environment.
Knowledge of decontamination, packaging, and sterilization of instrumentation and supplies to ensure proper functioning and safety.
Ability to demonstrate accountability for the patient care environment, including reporting malfunctioning equipment and ensuring patient safety.
Ability to perform assigned patient care tasks under the supervision of a registered nurse and surgeon during procedures.
Ability to assess and anticipate needed supplies for scheduled and emergent procedures, ensuring comfort and safety for patients and anticipating the surgeon's needs.
Knowledge of how to prepare the operating room according to specific procedures, ensuring proper disinfection of equipment and furniture.
Proficiency in exercising proper sterile technique, opening and arranging sterile fields in accordance with protocol for both routine and special procedures.
Knowledge of how to utilize medical equipment and supplies efficiently, including tracking and restocking supplies, ensuring timely reordering and inventory management.
Ability to assist in clearing the operating room between procedures, including proper disposal of contaminated items and cleaning instruments.
Ability to participate in counts with the circulating nurse to ensure accuracy of surgical instruments and supplies.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with the surgical team and other healthcare professionals.
High attention to detail and organizational skills, ensuring accurate preparation and maintenance of equipment and supplies.
Ability to remain calm, focused, and efficient in a fast-paced clinical environment, troubleshooting minor malfunctions of medical equipment.

Responsibilities

Prepare procedure rooms for endoscopic procedures, ensuring all necessary instruments, supplies, and equipment are available, sterile, and functioning properly.
Assist gastroenterologists and nurses during diagnostic and therapeutic procedures such as colonoscopies, EGDs, ERCPs, EUS, and other GI-related interventions.
Operate and maintain endoscopic equipment, including light sources, video processors, monitors, and suction systems, troubleshooting as needed.
Handle and process endoscopic instruments according to infection control protocols, ensuring proper disinfection, sterilization, and storage.
Label specimens accurately during procedures and hand them off to the nurse in the room, ensuring proper documentation.
Monitor patient comfort and safety before, during, and after procedures, under the direction of licensed medical staff.
Ensure compliance with hospital, departmental policies, procedures, and safety standards, particularly regarding infection control.
Participate in inventory management, ordering, and restocking of supplies and equipment to ensure adequate stock levels.
Assist with advanced endoscopic procedures, including ERCP, EUS, EMR/ESD, FNA, hemostasis techniques, and GI stent placement.
Act as the primary scrub assistant during therapeutic procedures, including device exchange, scope reintroduction, and maintaining sterile fields.
Operate and troubleshoot advanced GI technology, including endoscopy towers, CO2 insufflators, irrigation pumps, cautery units, and fluoroscopy equipment.
Expertly clean, leak test, disinfect, and store scopes such as duodenoscopes, colonoscopes, gastroscopes, ensuring proper tracking using electronic systems.
Performs all other duties as assigned.