OR Scrub Tech - Neuro Team

Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic; Mason City (IA); On-site; USD 52,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus

Education assistance

Benefits Day 1 Package

Competitive wages

Generous paid time off

Retirement plan with employer match

Job summary

Responsibilities include assisting with patient assessment, preparing the pre-op site, managing sterile fields, and ensuring efficient room turnover under the circulating nurse. Minimum qualifications include certification and 2+ years of experience.

Qualifications

• Graduate of a surgical technologist program or LPN with surgical experience.
• Surgical technologist certification required.
• At least 2 years of experience functioning as a Surgical Tech.
• BLS Healthcare Provider certification required.
• Mandatory reporting training for Child and Dependent Adult Abuse within 6 months.

Responsibilities

• Assists the circulating nurse in assessing the patients' needs and helps to develop and implement the plan of care.
• Provides care to all surgical patients per OR standards, physician cards, and AORN Standards.
• Assists in setting up rooms.
• Secures safe transport of the patient when needed.
• Confirms correct surgical site, pre-operative site prep, instruments the case, and manages sterile field.
• Turns the room around under the supervision of the circulating nurse.
• Serves as steward for hospital resources.
• Meets productivity expectations defined by unit manager.
• Identifies changes on surgeons' preference cards.
• Uses and maintains supplies during cases and in the department.
• Develops and maintains skills in all surgical specialties.

Education

Graduate of a surgical technologist program

Surgical technologist certification

LPN license (if graduate of LPN program)

Graduate of LPN program with surgical experience

Job description

Employment Type: Full time Shift: Day Shift Description: $10,000 Sign-on Bonus offered.

Position Purpose: The surgical technologist, using the principles of medical asepsis, prepares the operating room for surgical cases of all specialties and instruments the surgical procedures anticipating the needs of the surgeon. The surgical technologist provides care within the MercyOne North Iowa Standards of Care, AORN Standards of Care and Practice and the Operating Room Policies and Procedures.

What you Will Do:

• Assists the circulating nurse in assessing the patients' needs and helps to develop and implement the plan of care.
• Provides care to all surgical patients in accordance with the operating room’s performance standards, physician preference cards, and the AORN Standards of Care and Practice.
• Assists in setting up rooms.
• Secures safe transport of the patient if needed.
• Confirms correctness of the surgical site, prepares the pre-operative site, instruments the case, manages the sterile field and specimens, and turns the room around under the supervision of the circulating nurse.
• Serves as a steward for the hospital’s human and material resources.
• Meets productivity expectations of unit/department as defined by unit manager.
• Identifies accurate changes on surgeons' preference cards.
• Utilizes and maintains appropriate supplies during the case and in the department.
• Develops and maintains knowledge/skills in all surgical specialties.

Hours: Day Shift - 8- hour shifts.

Specialty team: call 10-15 days per month Call response time is 30 min.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education: Graduate of a surgical technologist program is required, or graduate of an LPN program with Surgical experience.
• Certification as a surgical technologist required.
• LPN license required if graduate of LPN program.
• Must have at least 2 years of experience functioning as a Surgical Tech.
• Must provide proof of Basic Life Support (BLS Healthcare Provider, American Heart Association; or American Red Cross, Professional Rescuer-LIVE class only) via current card prior to employment or within 60 days of hire and maintains current status.
• Must provide proof of Mandatory Reporting for Child and Dependent Adult Abuse training prior to employment or within 6 months of hire and maintain current status per State of Iowa guidelines

Position Highlights and Benefits:

• $10,000 Sign-On Bonus-Limited Time!
• Education Assistance offered.
• Benefits Day 1 Package (Medical, Dental, Vision, and more) for positions 16 hours per week or greater.
• Competitive wages; including weekend and night differentials.
• Generous paid time off program.
• Retirement Savings program with employer match on Day 1.
• All offers are contingent upon the successful completion of references, background checks, pre-employment physical, drug screen and post offer exam.

EEO Statement

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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.

About Our Employer

Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, faith-based health care systems in the nation. Together, we’re 121,000 colleagues and nearly 36,500 physicians and clinicians caring for diverse communities across 27 states. Nationally recognized for care and experience, our system includes 101 hospitals, 126 continuing care locations, the second largest PACE program in the country, 136 urgent care locations, and many other health and well-being services. Based in Livonia, Michigan, in fiscal year 2023, we invested $1.5 billion in our communities through charity care and other community benefit programs. For more information, visit http://www.trinity-health.org. You can also follow Trinity Health on LinkedIn.