Surgical Technologist

Chenega Corporation • Full-time • Fort Bragg, North Carolina, US • $33 / hour • 2m ago

ADVANCED CHENEGA SERVICES, LLC

Fort Bragg, NC

The Operating Room Technician (Surgical) shall provide health care support for Womack Army Medical Center, Fort Bragg, NC. The contract operating room technician (OR tech) will work in conjunction with other health care providers, professionals, and non-contract personnel.

Responsibilities

Patient Preparation:

- Transport patients from hospital units to the Operating Room assuring safe transportation of the patient.
- Screens patient prior to transport to ensure pre-operative medications were given, jewelry, dentures and any prosthetic devices have been removed.
- Checks patient chart and identification band for completeness.
- Comforts patients fearing surgery.
- Positions or assist positioning patient and draping the patient for the specific procedure. Secure patient as required.
- Follows pre-operative nursing care plan in preparing patient and Operating Room. May be required to shave the operative site.
Scrub Technician:
- Selects, assembles, and organizes required supplies, equipment, and instruments for specific surgical procedures in accordance with operative work sheets, physician’s preference cards and/or conferring with physicians or charge nurse.
- Hands instruments to the surgeon during the procedure by anticipating the surgeon’s needs.
- Maintains alertness for complications developing during surgery such as hemorrhage, shock and cardiac arrest and immediately supplies instruments, drugs, and supplies to correct the condition.
- Takes sponge, instrument, and sharp counts, measures blood and fluid loss. Assists with application of dressings.
- Surgical assistant actively engages in the manipulation of tissue with proper instruments both intuitively by previous experience and by direction for the surgeon to facilitate and make possible the successful completion of the given procedure.
Circulator:
- Obtains sterile supplies, sutures, dressings, lines, etc., for the specific procedure; opens instrument sets, pours solutions, sets up and adjusts equipment such as electric coagulator, electric bone saw, operating microscope, air power drills, defibrillators, and resuscitators; makes suction connections and adjusts operating lights.
- Assist anesthetist during induction and throughout surgical procedure.
- Obtains supplies needed during surgery such as blood, drugs, solutions, instruments, and additional sterile supplies; prepares specimens for laboratory; properly labels specimens; takes specimens to the laboratory; records designated date on patient log, documents appropriate information in intraoperative nursing record.
- Responsible for aseptic techniques maintenance during the process of preparing for the assisting in the surgical procedure.
- Responsible for sponge, instrument, and sharp counts; measuring blood and fluid loss.
Operating Room Maintenance:
- Cleans operating room after surgery, removes and disposes of soiled and/or contaminated materials; changes linen; washes, disassembles, sterilize, and reassembles instruments.
- Removes gross contamination, soil, blood, tissue fragments, and body fluids by wiping, soaking, rinsing, and scrubbing at the point of use.
- Replenishes sterile packs and general supplies and restocks shelves after taking stock level inventory.
- In absence of housekeeping personnel, mops and disinfects all equipment in the operating room suites.
- Sets up and performs first echelon maintenance on all operating equipment.
- Responsible for preparing specimens for the laboratory; properly labeling specimens; taking specimens to the laboratory; records designated data on patient log, documents appropriate information in the intraoperative nursing record.

- Test operation of equipment daily to ensure effectiveness and parameters of sterilization are met.

Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Graduate from a Surgical Technology program accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP) or Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools (ABHES) or completion of a formal training program provided by a branch of the U.S. Armed Forces (Army, Navy, or Air Force) for surgical technicians, surgical technologists or operating room technicians.
Certified as a Surgical Technologist (CST) from the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (NCCT) or possess a Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) certification as a surgical technician and/or operating room technician.
Current certification in Basic Life Support (BLS) from the American Heart Association, the American Red Cross or other approved certifying body emblem.
Minimum one (1) year of experience as a certified surgical technologist in the last two years prior to contract execution.
Certification from an accredited OR Tech training program

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Experience working in a surgical setting
Familiarity with electronic health records (EHR) systems
Advance knowledge of surgical instruments and techniques
Strong problem-solving skills
Ability to work flexible hours, including nights and weekend

Physical Demands (The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee may use repeated motions that include the arms, wrists, hands and/or fingers. The employee is occasionally required to walk, stand, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

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