Certified Surgical Technologist

BHMG Baptist Health Medical Group Inc.; Springlee (KY); On-site; USD 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Baptist Health Medical Group Surgical Tech in the St. Matthews area is a full-time, first-shift position. The role supports vascular surgery cases with direct supervision, instrument handling, and aseptic technique.

Requirements include an Associate degree and CST certification, plus at least one year of related experience. The team emphasizes patient safety and collaborative care within a large health system.

Qualifications

• Associates degree required and CST certification.
• One year of job-related experience is required.

Responsibilities

• Assists in transferring/positioning patients under direct supervision.
• Assists with room turnover and maintaining aseptic technique in the OR.
• Prepares and hands instruments, sponges, catheters, drains and dressings for the surgical case.
• Functions as a scrubbed member of the patient care team and maintains aseptic technique.
• Assists with preoperative site preparation and patient draping; assists as needed during procedures.

Skills

Surgical tech

Vascular surgery experience

Education

Associates degree

Certified Surgical Technologist (CST)

Job description

Baptist Health Medical Group Surgical Tech Vascular Surgery St. Matthews area Full time/First shift

Summary Job Description: Baptist Health Medical Group Surgical Tech Vascular Surgery St. Matthews area Full time/First shift

• Assists in transferring / positioning patients under direct supervision
• Assists with room turnover
• Obtains necessary equipment and positioning supplies needed for cases
• Assures all scheduled and emergent cases have complete case carts
• Maintains communication with operating room staff, clinical coordinators, control desk charge nurse and manager
• Assists with orientation of new personnel and students as requested
• Resource for other team members through orientating, mentoring, and coaching
• Maintains aseptic technique while opening supplies and during surgical case
• Functions as a scrubbed (clean and sterile gown) member of the patient care team
• Demonstrates aseptic technique while tying, snapping surgical gowns and movement in OR suite
• Assists with the preparation of preoperative site and patient draping
• Performs activities required during the operation (e.g. handling of instruments, sponges, sutures, catheters, drains, dressing, etc.) under direct supervision of surgeon
• Observes for and corrects breaks in aseptic technique
• Handling specimens
• Makes appropriate decisions utilizing evidence-based practice and demonstrates critical thinking skills
• Assist is retraction of tissue and organs
• Assists the physician, within scope of practice, during procedures as necessary
• Transferring and irrigating with fluids
• Transferring but not administering drugs within the sterile field
• Assist in sponging or suctioning operative site
• Preparing or cutting suture material
• Performs skin closure under the direct supervision of the surgeon
• Applies dressing

Minimum Education/Experience:

Associates degree required - Certified Surgical Technologist One year of job-related experience required CST, Certified Surg Tech, Surgical Tech, Vascular, Clinical, Practice, Health Care

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law.

Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team.

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