About This Role
This role involves assisting nursing personnel in providing quality care to patients within the Operating Room. The Surgical Technologist functions as a key member of the surgical services team, performing perioperative tasks for patients undergoing surgical procedures under the guidance of the circulating nurse. The primary responsibility is to serve as a scrub nurse in the Operating Room.
Responsibilities
- Perform duties and responsibilities of a "scrub" person under the direction of a registered professional nurse
- Assist the circulating nurse by gathering all instruments, supplies, and equipment for each case in the assigned room using the surgeon's preference card
- Check and confirm sterility tapes, dates, and integrity of wrappers
- Open sterile supplies for assigned cases
- Check and troubleshoot equipment for proper functioning prior to use and confirm suction is working
- Appropriately remove malfunctioning equipment from use
- Perform surgical counts with the circulating nurses according to policy
- Perform surgical scrub technique and gown and glove procedure for self and surgical team
- Maintain a sterile field and take immediate action to correct any breaks in sterile technique
- Arrange instruments, basins, sutures, and software in a precise manner to allow for accurate counting at completion of procedure
- Use all devices and instruments appropriately
- Perform standard draping technique
- Pass and handle instruments to the surgical team in a safe and efficient manner
- Correctly hold retractors as prescribed by the supervising physician
- Break down setup and prepare instruments for sterilization, participate in turnover activities
- Collaborate with the surgeon to ensure proper labeling of all specimens from the sterile field
- Confirm all implants are correct and not expired prior to accepting on sterile field
- Assure all fluids are labeled on sterile field
- Ensure appropriate and safe use of equipment throughout the surgery
- Demonstrate knowledge of the procedure
Requirements
- High School Diploma or equivalent, required
- Successful completion from a nationally accredited educational program for surgical technologist, a certified surgical technologist (CST) credential administered by the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (NBSTSA) and maintains annual NYS required annual Operating Room CEU credits, required
- OR Graduate of an accredited school of practical nursing or of a Nursing Vocational or Nursing Technical school, and current license to practice as a Practical Nurse in New York State, and maintains annual NYS required annual Operating Room CEU credits, required
