Surgical Tech

bilh; United States; On-site; USD 52,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

The Surgical Technologist at BILH, under the supervision of the Director of The Comprehensive Pain Center and the Registered Nurse, performs sterile technique and supports the OR team in pediatric to geriatric cases. The role involves preparing equipment, maintaining sterile fields, and assisting with instrumentation to ensure safe, high-quality patient care.

You will participate in quality improvement, orientation for new personnel, and emergency readiness while collaborating with physicians

Qualifications

• BLS certification and ongoing continuing education in sterile technique and OR practices.
• Advanced knowledge of asepsis and intraoperative patient care.

Responsibilities

• Assists RN and collaborates to formulate care plans for patient well-being.
• Prepares OR by gathering sterile supplies and equipment; maintains sterile field.
• Performs sterile-field tasks: passing instruments, sponging, irrigating, and counting with the circulator.
• Verifies surgical site with the team.
• Checks packaging integrity and maintains sterile technique.
• Scrubs according to policy and assists with draping and instrument counts.
• Maintains current BLS, pursues CE and education requirements.
• Follows hospital attendance and punctuality policies.
• Demonstrates flexibility to changes in volume, emergencies, and scheduling.
• Applies knowledge of surgical techniques to assist the surgeon efficiently.
• Adheres to unit policies, procedures, and protocols.
• Retracts, suction, irrigates, and assists with hemostasis under direction.
• Demonstrates department-specific skills including high-risk and low-volume cases.
• Provides tissue retraction for optimal visualization using appropriate instruments.
• Uses all equipment and supplies needed for procedures.
• Shows initiative to learn new procedures and equipment.
• Exhibits self-direction and teamwork, offering assistance beyond daily duties.

Skills

Aseptic technique

Instrument handling

Team collaboration

Patient safety

Job description

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you're making a difference in people's lives.

The Surgical Technologist under the supervision of the Director of The Comprehensive Pain Center, and the Registered Nurse performs services in a designated area according to the policies, procedures, philosophy, and objectives of the department and hospital.

The Surgical Technologist works cooperatively within department and other services to create a system of safe, high quality health care and assists in patient care, transports equipment, assists in room turnovers, prepares case supplies, equipment and restocks room. The Surgical Technologist selects and prepares the appropriate supplies and equipment for surgical cases as necessary and ensures appropriate equipment needs for surgeon are met, participates in OR activities related to quality improvement, continuing education, orientation of new personnel, and emergency preparedness. The Surgical Technologist is a trained individual with advanced technical knowledge and skills in asepsis and the intraoperative phase of surgical patient care management, pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric patients. Based upon such expertise, the surgical technician is responsible for providing all the necessary instrumentation, supplies and equipment for the surgical procedure. The Surgical Technologist, as a member of the surgical team assists with patient care under the direction and supervision of the circulating nurse (RN). Is responsible for meeting established OR standards for supplies and other equipment on the unit; is responsible for developing collaborative and collegial relationships with physicians and interdepartmental personnel as they relate to the care of the surgical patient.

Job Description

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Roles and Responsibilities

• Assists the registered nurse and collaborates with other team members to formulate care plan to assure patient's well-being. Provides intervention for all patient populations.
• Collaborates with an operating room circulator prior to surgical procedure to carry out the plan of care including preparing the operating room, gathering and preparing sterile supplies, instruments and equipment, preparing and maintaining the sterile field using sterile and aseptic technique and ensuring that surgical equipment is functioning properly and safely.
• Performs tasks at the sterile field, as directed in an OR setting, including passing supplies, equipment or instruments, sponging or suctioning an operative site, preparing and cutting suture material, transferring and irrigating with fluids, transferring, but not administer drugs within the sterile field, handling specimens, holding retractors and assisting in counting sponges, needles, supplies, and instruments with an OR circulator.
• Verifies the surgical procedure site/side with the surgical team
• Checks indicators and integrity of all packages for each surgical procedure and recognizes unseen boundaries between sterile and not sterile while monitoring breaks in sterile technique
• Performs scrubbing duties not limited to but including, a proper scrub according to policy. Demonstrates proper concept of draping and performs an accurate count at appropriate time. Demonstrates proper use of all surgical equipment surround a procedure.
• Maintains current BLS certification, attends continuing education related to own specialty practice and shares information with other staff, maintains annual mandatory education requirements.
• Follows hospital policy regarding attendance and tardiness.
• Demonstrates flexibility and cooperation in response to unexpected change in work volume, emergencies, staffing or scheduling changes.
• Demonstrates sound knowledge of surgical techniques, both routine and specialized, and performs in a professional manner. Applies this knowledge appropriately to develop and improve skills in assisting the surgeon and in the organization of work utilizing economy in time, motion and materials.
• Adheres to unit-specific policies, procedures, and protocols.
• Demonstrates ability to retract, suction, irrigate, apply pressure and assist in homeostasis by use of assorted sponges in the surgical field under the direction of the surgeon.
• Demonstrates department specific skills and competencies, including high-risk, low-volume and problem-prone competencies.
• Provides retraction of tissue and organs for optimal visualization with regard to tissue type and appropriate retraction instrument and/or technique.
• Demonstrates ability to use all equipment and supplies necessary for surgical procedures.
• Develops and demonstrates initiative in order to inquire and explore new surgical procedures and subject relating to the operating room and to the surgical patient. Demonstrates initiative, adaptability and self-learning when learning new equipment and operative procedures.
• Demonstrates self-direction above and beyond daily assignments and actively offers assistance to colleagues.