Sterile Processing Tech PD
About The Position
As our Sterile Processing Professional, you will be a critical guardian of patient safety, ensuring surgical teams receive correct, fully functional, and sterile instrumentation. Every day, you will expertly perform decontamination, prep and pack, sterilization, and dispatch with efficiency, expertise, and accuracy, delivering instruments with resourcefulness, determination, courtesy, and professionalism. You will continuously expand your knowledge of standards and procedures for surgical instrumentation. To be successful in this role, you will possess exceptional attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and a rigorous commitment to infection control, ensuring optimal surgical outcomes with a professional demeanor. Utilizes the AIDET principle to communicate with others, with a focus on patients and their families. Acknowledge Introduce Explain Duration Thank
Requirements
- Previous Sterile Processing Technician experience
- Completion of Sterile Processing Technician Training
Nice To Haves
- 2-3 years of Sterile Processing Technician experience in an acute care hospital
Responsibilities
- Makes regular pick-ups from all units of all contaminated equipment in a timely fashion.
- Keeps contaminated supplies and equipment properly covered when transporting
- Decontaminates equipment, instruments and all other reusable items.
- Uses PPE (personal protective equipment)
- Understands pathogen transference
- Cleans effectively / competently utilizing manufacturer's recommended practices
- No returned instruments for re-cleaning
- Utilizes ONE SOURCE documents to identify appropriate cleaning & sterilization /decontamination method
- Operates washer/decontaminator and ultrasonic machines.
- Understands proper loading techniques
- Checks machine chemical levels
- Knows who to contact when machines malfunction
- Performs high-level disinfectant usage, monitoring, and disposal.
- Monitors solution daily and checks outdate
- Proper use of neutralizer for disposal
- Follows spill procedures
- Assembles surgical instrument trays according to check off list.
- Reads and updates check off list as needed
- Notifies manager of missing instruments
- Removes / replaces broken instruments
- Clearly labels outside of container or wrapper if there are missing items
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
