| Provides assistive patient care in the Operating Room under the direct supervision of the Registered Nurse. This position serves the following patient age categories: neonatal, pediatrics, adolescent, adult and geriatric. Level IV practices above a level III advanced practitioner. Meets all of Level III criteria and demonstrates knowledge of practices around staff education and quality improvement initiatives. Assists Assistant Directors, OR Specialty Coordinators and RN III/IV in maintaining service?s needs. Is considered a global resource, a resource for highly complicated procedures that possess a skill level that is flexible and adaptive, about to work outside of specialty area (system/global focused). |
Job Level: Patient Care Support
Campus: Wesley Long Hospital
Talent Pool: Allied Health
| Assists with Surgical Process. Demonstrates table set ups and scrub techniques for complex procedures in and out of specialty. Anticipates specific instruments, checks equipment, and obtains supplies for upcoming schedule. Maintains asepsis throughout procedure; identifies and corrects breaks in technique. Demonstrates and educates principles of anatomy and physiology as related to basic and complex procedures. Demonstrates and educates safety practices as related to counts, sharps, positioning, specimens, and ESUs. Plan education for peer group -------------------------------------------------- Contributes to unit operations. Identifies and makes changes to preference lists. Recognizes and actively participates in quality assurance and improvement activities. Willingness to go to other specialties to broaden knowledge base. Records peer group competencies. -------------------------------------------------- Demonstrates professional accountability. Plans and teaches campus specific specialty competencies. Coaches surgical team on the importance of universal precautions. Monitors, coaches, and holds others accountable to the dress code. Holds peers accountable to departmental objectives. Completes mandatory requirements to include: maintains current CPR, obtains TB testing per schedule. Obtains 15 CEUs a year. -------------------------------------------------- Planning and Implementation of patient care. Recognizes selected data about the health status of the patient with the circulating nurse and surgeon. Observes patient and alerts surgical team to symptoms, reactions, and changes in patient's condition and coaches others to recognize status changes. Assists the RN with selected patient care interventions in a manner that is consistent with policies and procedures and offering coaching to new members of the surgical team. Consults physicians and acts upon needs/requirements preoperatively and postoperatively. Completes assigned task and without prompting seeks other departmental needs. Educates peer group. -------------------------------------------------- |
Talent Pool: Allied Health
REQUIRED: MUST BE CST CERTIFIED OR ELIGIBLE TO SIT FOR THE CST EXAM BY COMPLETING PROGRAM
CAAHEP* or ABHES* accredited during your enrollment.
CST First Time/Retake Applicants | NBSTSA
| EDUCATION: |
| Required: High School diploma or equivalent, plus Graduate of a School of Surgical Technology or equivalent military training with surgical technologist experience. |
| EXPERIENCE: |
| Two years or more in the service they are applying for., Required Minimum of 3 years required in the Surgical Technology Field, Required |
| LICENSURE/CERTIFICATION/REGISTRY/LISTING: |
| REQUIRED BLS (CPR)-American Red Cross or AHA Healthcare Provider CST Certified Surgical Technologist. Certifications should come from the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting. 60 CEUs/4 years for the CST PREFERRED |
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