Ortho Tech Certified Orthopaedics - Lebanon

Vanderbilt Health • Lebanon, TN

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About The Position

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of diverse individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health recognizes that diversity is essential for excellence and innovation. We are committed to an inclusive environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your diversity of culture, thinking, learning, and leading is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt's mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED.
• 2 years of relevant work experience.
• Demonstrates mastery of Orthopaedics in practical applications of a difficult nature.
• Possesses sufficient knowledge, training, and experience to be capable of successfully delivering results without requiring support and instruction from others.
• Demonstrates mastery of cast application and removal in practical applications of a difficult nature.

Responsibilities

• Assists orthopaedic surgeons and residents with preventing or correcting disorders of the locomotor structures of the body.
• Supervises day to day operations in the cast room(s) and be responsible for daily staffing and schedule changes/assignments (does not manage others directly).
• Assists in the education/training of medical students, residents and ortho cast techs.
• Manages inventory of medical supplies for the Orthopaedic Clinic and completes ordering and keeps up with cast room inventory needs assessment.
• Precepting new hires, organizes and implements annual competency check offs for cast techs and ortho techs.
• Wound care, dressing changes, suture and pin removal, removal of external fixator threaded pin and percutaneous pins and drains.
• Application of Wound Vac, Mepliex Silver Dressing and Application and removal of all cast, splints, and immobilization devices.
• Educate Residents, Nurse Practitioners, ED Residents, Orientation of New Hires, Annual in-service, and competency training for ortho cast techs, ortho techs and certified ortho tech staff.
• May go to ER, Floor and OR to assist with complex cast, splinting, etc.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Hospitals
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees