Surgical Tech--Various schedules needed-Bridgeport

Yale New Haven Health•Bridgeport, CT

14h•Onsite

About The Position

Bridgeport Hospital is hiring Surgical Technicians for operating room and labor and delivery roles across several schedules and locations. Employees are expected to understand and share YNHHS’s Vision, support its Mission, and demonstrate integrity, patient-centered care, respect, accountability, and compassion. The position includes patient care, sterile technique, surgical case preparation, scrubbing, assisting the circulator, and completing specified non-therapeutic functions under clinical direction.

Requirements

Graduate of a CAAHEP-accredited surgical technology program, a formal program as defined by the LCCST, or completion of Bridgeport Hospital’s structured on-the-job training program.
Completion of a licensed Certified Surgical Technology program. Newly hired Surgical Technologists as of January 1, 2012 must be certified or obtain certification within one year of employment; Surgical Technicians hired before that date are grandfathered in.
Demonstrated knowledge of all aspects of the surgical department and ability to work independently on minor or minimally complex cases.
Use the recommended guidelines in the Association of Surgical Technologist Standards of Practice when carrying out job responsibilities.
Ability to regularly stand, walk, stoop, kneel, or crouch; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and talk and hear.
May occasionally need to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
Required vision abilities include close, distance, color, and peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Responsibilities

Verify the patient's identity with a registered nurse.
Apply principles of asepsis and disinfection to the care of supplies, instruments, and the environment.
Identify and apply sterile-technique principles when assisting with operative procedures.
Use knowledge of normal and pathological anatomy and physiology to individualize patient care.
Perform the scrub-person role, including hand scrubbing, gowning and gloving others, securing sterile gowns, and completing scrub protocol before each case according to operating room standards.
Prepare the operative site under the direction of a registered nurse, assist surgical team members as needed, and report procedure status to the relief team while assisting as a circulator.
Take individual responsibility for professional actions.
Under the direction of an MD, PA, APRN, or RN, remove medications sent from Pharmacy or Hospital Supply through the pneumatic tube system to the unit or patient care area.