Role: Surgical Technologist responsible for assisting during surgical procedures across all ages, ensuring aseptic techniques, and supporting patient care.
Key Duties:
- Assist surgeons with procedures, coordinate treatments, and provide basic patient support.
- Prepare for surgery by scrubbing, gowning, gloving, and setting up instruments, following universal protocols.
- Verify surgical site, maintain accurate supply counts, and handle specimens.
- Dispose of sharps and linens properly, assess wounds, and change sterile dressings.
- Follow universal precautions, initiate emergency procedures, and participate in admission/discharge processes.
- Support billing, on-call rotations, and act as a preceptor for students.
- Perform quality control, specimen collection, patient transport, and post-mortem care as needed.
- Ensure medication and solutions are correctly labeled under RN supervision.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Current certification as a Certified Surgical Technologist (CST) or eligible under relevant state laws.
- Graduate of a Specialty Training Program.
- Ability to work rotating shifts, including weekends, holidays, and on-call duties.
- Strong adherence to policies, protocols, and standards of care.
Key Attributes: Attention to detail, teamwork, adherence to safety standards, and capacity to support emergency procedures.