Surgical Technician

Emory Healthcare•Decatur, GA

9h•$37 - $45•Onsite

About The Position

Emory Healthcare is seeking a Surgical Technician to join their team at Emory Decatur Hospital. This role involves implementing and evaluating patient care during diagnostic and invasive surgical procedures, with a focus on complex health issues. The Surgical Technician will serve as a clinical resource, analyze surgical outcomes, and lead service area committees. The position requires expertise in at least one specialty area and the ability to handle multiple specialties, including General Surgery, ENT, Robotics, Ophthalmology, Complex GYN, Complex Ortho/Spine, Thoracic, and Vascular. Responsibilities include cost containment, supply management, identifying patient needs, prioritizing procedures, documenting incidents, planning surgical procedures, implementing interventions, utilizing standards of care, determining necessary resources, communicating patient and staff needs, keeping the peri-operative team informed, maintaining professional behavior, developing protocols, documenting care, setting and meeting goals in clinical practice, management, education, or research, active membership in professional organizations, resolving patient advocacy issues, acting as a resource for interdisciplinary needs, identifying supply resources, assisting with staff and patient education, assisting with new staff and student orientation, assisting with unit-based competency requirements, serving as a role model or mentor, complying with policies, providing input on policies for specialized populations, completing orientation programs, attending educational programs, assisting in research and quality monitoring, serving as a clinical resource for other Surgical Technologists, reviewing and revising surgical preference cards, participating in performance improvement programs, assisting in research activities, and performing related responsibilities. The role also involves assisting surgeons and nurses, preparing the operating room, and operating specialized instrumentation. The technician must follow procedures for accounting of sharps, sponges, and instruments.

Requirements

A high school diploma or equivalent.
Graduation from a surgical technology program or equivalent job training, which may include military perioperative programs and/or hospital-based training programs.
Two years multispecialty experience with one year in a complex specialty area.
Must be able to function as a clinical expert in two or more complex specialty service lines and have the ability to float to other complex service lines as needed.
Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification in accordance with the American Heart Association required.

Nice To Haves

Certification in Surgical Technology preferred.

Responsibilities

Implements and evaluates care of pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients undergoing diagnostic and invasive surgical procedures.
Provides care to patients with complex health issues and serves as a clinical resource to staff.
Analyzes and anticipates less predictable outcomes of surgical interventions.
Leads service area based committees.
Identifies cost containment activities.
Monitors and maintains supplies and initiates purchases to ensure par levels.
Identifies more complex patient needs by reviewing procedure protocol, physician's request, and assessing the patient's physical needs.
Prioritizes procedure process and supplies for specialty group of patients.
Identifies verbally or in writing unusual incidents during patient care procedures and identifies complex procedure problems related to patient reaction, symptoms, or changes in needs based on patient reactions.
Plans for surgical procedure based on identified needs of surgeon and patient.
Implements intervention for identified patient problems as related to surgical procedure and patient needs.
Utilizes appropriate standards of care, and/or collaborative clinical pathways to guide the plan of care.
Determine the equipment, materials, and resources needed to meet the patient procedure plan.
Communicates patients' and staff needs and responses through written and verbal communication to management as appropriate.
Keeps the peri-operative team abreast of the procedure needs and progress.
Maintains courteous and professional behavior in all interactions.
Participates in the development and revision of procedure protocols, unit based forms and specialty clinical pathways.
Documents all aspects of care by following the established unit procedure.
Establishes and meets goals in one or more of the following areas: clinical practice, management, education, and/or research.
Active membership in professional organization.
Functions as a resource to resolve issues related to patient advocacy.
Acts as a resource for complex interdisciplinary needs.
Identifies available supply resources to meet procedure needs.
Assists in identifying staff and patient education needs based on clinical situations and recommends appropriate inservice.
Assists with planning and conducting department orientation of new staff and students.
Assists with unit based competency requirements.
Serves as role model or mentor for new staff and students.
Complies with established policies and procedures.
Provides input in developing and revising policies and procedures pertaining to specialized patient population to improve the quality of patient care.
Successfully completes hospital and department based orientation programs.
Attends educational programs to develop optimal knowledge in area of specialty.
Assists in identifying ways in which patient and procedure outcomes can be modified through research and/or quality monitoring to improve the quality of patient care.
Serves as clinical resource for Surgical Technologists in designated service line for orienting new employees.
Reviews and identifies revisions to the surgical preference cards for designated service.
Participates in unit based and hospital wide performance improvement programs.
Assists in research and related activities in the surgery department.
Identifies and communicates researchable problems as appropriate.
Analyzes and reports data to appropriate source.
Performs related responsibilities as required.
Assists surgeons and nurses with patients, equipment preparation, aseptic technique, and surgical procedures in the operating room.
Prepares the operating room for surgery by assembling routine supplies, materials, instruments, and equipment; obtains special supplies indicated by physician.
Set up and operate a variety of specialized instrumentation, manual and powered equipment.
Follows procedures for pre and post-operative accounting of sharps, sponges and instruments used in the surgical set up.