Surg tech

Yale New Haven Health • Bridgeport, CT

3d

About The Position

The Surgical Technologist works in a novice role and, because of limited or no clinical experience, requires close supervision by a mentor or experienced personnel. As an integral member of the surgical team, the role works closely with surgeons, anesthesiologists, registered nurses, and other surgical personnel to deliver patient care, with supervised responsibilities before, during, and after surgery. Duties include preparing the operating room and the instruments, equipment, and supplies needed; positioning and preparing patients for surgery; and passing instruments, sponges, and sutures to the surgeon.

The position supports Bridgeport Hospital’s patient-centered approach to coordinated, continuous, and comprehensive care, and is expected to follow YNHHS values of integrity, patient-centeredness, respect, accountability, and compassion. The role performs patient-care, asepsis, surgical case presentation, scrub-person, assisting-circulator, and professional-accountability functions. It also completes specified non-therapeutic tasks under the direction of a physician, PA, APRN, or RN.

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 must be certified or obtain certification within one year of employment; Surgical Technicians hired before January 1, 2012, are grandfathered in.
• Demonstrate knowledge of all aspects of the surgical department and work independently on minor or minimally complex cases.
• Use the recommended guidelines in the Association of Surgical Technologists Standards of Practice when performing job responsibilities.
• Regularly stand, walk, stoop, kneel, or crouch; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and talk and hear.
• May occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Required vision abilities include close, distance, color, and peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Responsibilities

• Verify the patient’s identity with a registered nurse.
• Apply principles of asepsis and disinfection when caring for supplies, instruments, and the environment.
• Identify and apply sterile-technique principles while assisting with operative procedures.
• Apply knowledge of normal and pathological anatomy and physiology to individualize patient care.
• Perform scrub-person duties, including hand scrubbing, gowning, gloving, securing sterile gowns, and completing scrub protocol before each case according to OR standards.
• Prepare the operative site under the direction of a registered nurse and assist other surgical team members as needed.
• Report procedure status to the relief team.
• Recognize 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed