Full-Time
Surgical Technologist
Surgery
Deadline 10/27/27
Northside Hospital
No salary listed
Woodstock, GA, USA
In Person
Category
 Medical, Clinical & Veterinary (1) |
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Requirements
- Graduate of an accredited surgical technology program.
- Visual color acuity screening depending on the role in specific units.
- Must hold American Heart Association’s Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS).
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.
- When Assigned to the Expeditor Role:- Completes case cart with all supplies and instruments required for scheduled cases at least 30 minutes prior to subsequent scheduled case start.
- Obtains instruments used on previous case that will be needed for subsequent case and delivers to Instrument Tech for cleaning and sterilizing
- At end of case, delivers dirty case cart/instruments to appropriate soiled holding location.
- At end of case, places unused clean supplies in appropriate area
- Retrieves extra supplies and equipment that are not listed on preference card. Facilitates changes in preference card to reflect needed items
- Ensures that required equipment and supplies are on hand for scheduled cases,
- Provides assistance with room setup
- Supports the rapid turnover of surgical procedures at the direction of OR leadership.
- Removes any unnecessary equipment, returning it to designated storage areas.
Desired Qualifications
- 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)