Surgical Technologist - Inpatient Surgery (Ground Floor)

Northside Hospital Inc.•Atlanta, GA

4h•Onsite

About The Position

Northside Hospital is an award-winning, state-of-the-art, and continually growing healthcare institution. This position offers opportunities for healthcare professionals to expand their careers. The Surgical Technologist provides care and/or service to patients undergoing surgical intervention, assisting the surgical team before, during, and after procedures. This role involves reviewing supplies and equipment, setting up surgical equipment, preparing patients for surgery, positioning patients, completing surgical skin preps, draping sterile fields, maintaining sterile techniques, organizing and passing instruments, managing surgical specimens, and performing surgical counts. The technologist may serve in the first or second scrub role and is responsible for cleaning operating rooms and transporting patients, specimens, and equipment. The role also includes practicing proper safety techniques and reporting malfunctions or unsafe conditions.

Requirements

High school diploma, equivalent education (GED) or post-secondary education
Must hold American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) credential.
Visual color acuity screening depending on the role in specific units.
Graduate of an accredited surgical technology program and working as a Surgical Technologist with two (2) years of experience OR Five (5) years of full-time employment within the last seven (7) years in an Operating Room setting working as a Surgical Technologist

Nice To Haves

Certification as a Certified Surgical Technologist (CST) through the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (NBSTSA) or Technologist in Surgery- Certified (TS-C) through the National Center for Competency Testing (NCCT)

Responsibilities

Provides care and/or service to patients undergoing surgical intervention without regard to age, race, or gender.
Assists the surgical team before, during, and after procedures.
Reviewing supplies and equipment
Setting up surgical equipment
Preparing patients for surgery
Positioning the patient
Completing surgical skin preps
Draping sterile field
Maintaining sterile techniques, recognizing breaks in technique, and takes steps to regain sterility.
Organizing and passing instruments, supplies, equipment, medication, and solutions
Ensuring management of the surgical specimen
Performing appropriate surgical counts with circulating nurse.
May serve in the first or second scrub role
Cleaning the operating rooms in preparation for subsequent surgical procedures.
Transporting patients or specimens as necessary.
Transporting clean and dirty equipment and supplies.
Practices proper safety techniques in accordance with hospital and departmental policies and procedures.
Immediately reports any mechanical or electrical equipment malfunctions, unsafe conditions, or employee/patient/visitor injury accident to supervisor.
Completes case cart with all supplies and instruments required for scheduled cases at least 30 minutes prior to subsequent scheduled case start (When Assigned to the Expeditor Role).
Obtains instruments used on previous case that will be needed for subsequent case and delivers to Instrument Tech for cleaning and sterilizing (When Assigned to the Expeditor Role).
At end of case, delivers dirty case cart/instruments to appropriate soiled holding location (When Assigned to the Expeditor Role).
At end of case, places unused clean supplies in appropriate area (When Assigned to the Expeditor Role).
Retrieves extra supplies and equipment that are not listed on preference card (When Assigned to the Expeditor Role).
Facilitates changes in preference card to reflect needed items (When Assigned to the Expeditor Role).
Ensures that required equipment and supplies are on hand for scheduled cases (When Assigned to the Expeditor Role).
Aids with room setup (When Assigned to the Expeditor Role).
Supports the rapid turnover of surgical procedures at the direction of OR leadership (When Assigned to the Expeditor Role).
Removes any unnecessary equipment, returning it to designated storage areas (When Assigned to the Expeditor Role).
Performs various patient care activities for the patient in labor including obtaining vital signs, performing catheterizations, obtaining urine specimens, performing perineal care, and performing skin preps for surgical procedures; assists patients as necessary with position changes and ambulation (Labor and Delivery).
Performs various patient care activities related to newborn care to include immediate care which involves drying, warming, and observation and performing identification, measurement (inches and pounds), eye care, bathing, and other related activities (Labor and Delivery).
Assembles equipment and supplies for procedures using aseptic techniques (Labor and Delivery).
Assists physicians and nurses during vaginal deliveries by performing various tasks including preparing and monitoring patients and operating suction and other equipment (Labor and Delivery).
Performs Surgical technologist function for surgical procedures including cesarean deliveries, tubal ligations, and hysterectomies; sets-up sterile field, passes instruments and surgical items to physician, and performs surgical counts; and, assists with cleaning the OR rooms in preparation for subsequent surgical procedures (Labor and Delivery).
Transports patients and newborns to assigned rooms and/or nursery (Labor and Delivery).
Maintains a clean, neat, and safe environment which involves, but is not limited to, such activities as tidying rooms, cleaning equipment, restocking linens and other supplies and materials (in assigned areas and as otherwise necessary), preparing rooms, and keeping utility and equipment rooms, and hallways neat and clean (Labor and Delivery).
Obtains information as necessary to initiate routine admission procedure (Labor and Delivery).
May bring case carts to rooms, checks supplies and equipment in preparation for subsequent procedures (Turnover Tech).
May assist with moving the patient and cleaning the OR room in preparation for subsequent surgical procedures (Turnover Tech).
May bring all supplies and equipment for next case into the room. Places all supplies and equipment in appropriate places and opens rooms (Turnover Tech).
Performs appropriate pre- and post-surgical counts with circulating nurse (Safety).
Supports the Ophthalmology service in both the outpatient surgery center, as well as the main hospital for those patients who do not meet criteria for an outpatient surgery center (Specialty-Specific Duties – Ophthalmology).
Takes call to support the Ophthalmology service for emergent cases that occur in the main hospital Monday through Friday after 7PM, on weekends, and holidays (Specialty-Specific Duties – Ophthalmology).
Assists in the ongoing identification, development and administration of hospital and department Quality Improvement program.
Assists in leading unit-based quality improvement initiatives.
Assists with special projects as directed by leadership.
Provides clinical experience and instruction for student programs and may provide written and verbal evaluations of student performance.
Develops expertise in the functioning, use, and maintenance of equipment and instruments in assigned surgical specialty.
Ensures equipment is available and works properly and performs minor repairs as needed.
Trains and serves as a preceptor for new surgical technologist staff and surgical technologist students and surgical tech externs.
May assist in training staff in the use, maintenance, and minor repair of equipment used in surgical specialty (including ophthalmology, if applicable).