Sterile Processing Associate
About The Position
Nebraska Medicine is seeking a Sterile Processing Associate at Bellevue Medical Center. This full-time, second shift position involves inspecting, cleaning, and sterilizing instruments. The role is essential in handling sterile products and constructing surgical case carts, ensuring superior infection control methods are followed to enhance patient safety. This includes handling surgical instruments, equipment, and medical supplies with sterile techniques to maintain product integrity. The associate will also assure supplies and instruments are stocked and pulled efficiently and accurately for cases, ensuring all requested products are available. The position requires knowledge of various surgical instruments, sterilization methods, and decontamination equipment, and provides support to Perioperative services staff, serving as a product specialist for surgical services.
Requirements
- Minimum of 18 years of age
- High school education or equivalent
- Written and verbal communication skills
Nice To Haves
- Sterile processing experience or surgical technologist training
- Knowledge of medical terminology
- Aptitude for electronics troubleshooting
- Basic computer skills
- Knowledge of approximately 3,000 surgical instruments and specialty surgical instrument sets
- Certified by the Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution (CBSPD) or International Association of Healthcare Central Service Materials Management (IAHSCMM) within 18 months of hire or transfer date
- Completion for Surgical Technologist program
- Experience using Steam, Ethelene Oxide, and Hydrogen Peroxide Gas Plasma sterilization chambers and attained the knowledge of sterility indicators
- Detailed knowledge of consumable single use medical products
- PC, laser printer, bar code scanner, bar code printer
- Washer/Decontamination Vessels
- Ability to navigate numerous electronic information systems
Responsibilities
- Inspecting, cleaning and sterilizing instruments
- Handling sterile products while constructing surgical case carts
- Ensuring superior infection control methods are followed to enhance patient safety by handling surgical instruments, equipment and medical supplies with sterile techniques to ensure the integrity of the product is maintained
- Assure supplies and instruments are stocked and pulled for cases in an efficient and accurate manner assuring all requested product is available to accommodate all cases
- Have knowledge of several types of surgical instruments, sterilizers methods and decontamination equipment
- Provide support to the Perioperative services staff and serves as a product specialist to surgical services for the organization
Benefits
- Up to $5,000/year in tuition assistance
- 35% discount at Clarkson College
- Career advancement opportunities with covered educational costs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
