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US
Company size
11-50 employees
Job sector
Health Science
occupation category
Surgical Technologists
Job type
Contract
Work environment
In person
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- Identifies appropriate usage of sutures/needles and stapling devices
- Understands and applies basic principles of electricity and electrical safety
- Assists in the application of casts, splints, braces, and similar devices
- Coordinates additional equipment (e.g., bovie pad, pneumatic tourniquet, sequential compression devices, positioning devices)
- Reports medication and solution amount used
- Obtains instruments and supplies needed for surgery
- Prepares dressings and wound sites
- Follows proper cost containment processes
- Anticipates steps of surgical procedures
- Disposes of contaminated waste and drapes after surgery in compliance with Standard Precautions
- Participates in organ and tissue procurement
- Performs appropriate actions during an emergency
- Applies principles of surgical pharmacology to operative practice anesthesia related agents and medications
- Applies principles of surgical microbiology to operative practice principles of tissue handling (e.g. Halsted principles, tissue manipulation methods, traction/counter traction)
- Applies principles of surgical microbiology to operative practice infection control procedures (e.g., aseptic technique
- Uses interpersonal skills (e.g., listening, diplomacy, responsiveness) and group dynamics
- Removes drapes and other equipment (e.g., suction, cautery, instrumentation, non-disposable items) from patient
- Reviews surgeon's preference card
- Applies patient monitoring devices as directed
- Dons personal protective equipment
- Performs medical hand wash
- Assembles and sets up sterile instruments and supplies for surgical procedure
- Provides assistance with stapling devices
- Initiates preventative actions in potentially harmful situations
- Recognizes safety and environmental hazards (e.g., fire, chemical spill, laser, smoke)
- Applies principles of surgical pharmacology to operative practice blood and fluid replacement
- Secures cords/tubing to drapes and applies light handles
- Irrigates, suctions, and sponges operative site
- Opens sterile supplies/instruments while maintaining aseptic technique
- Utilizes preoperative documentation (e.g., informed consent, advanced directives, allergies, laboratory results)
- Checks package integrity of sterile supplies
- Applies patient safety devices (e.g., bovie pad, safety strap, protective padding, x-ray safety)
- Performs surgical scrub (e.g. initial, waterless)
- Considers patient needs (e.g., bariatrics, geriatrics, pediatrics, immunocompromised, patient allergies)
- Prepares, drains, catheters, and tubing for insertion
- Follows hospital and national disaster plan protocol
- Verifies with surgeon the correct type and/or size of specialty specific implantable items
- Prepares surgical site (e.g., hair removal, surgical preparation)
- Reports abnormal postoperative findings (e.g., bleeding from surgical site, hematoma, rash)
- Prepares bone and tissue grafts (e.g., allograft, autograft, synthetic)
- Assembles, tests, operates and disassembles specialty equipment including microscopes, computer navigation systems, thermal technology, laser technology (e.g., helium, argon, CO2, beam coagulators), ultrasound technology (e.g., harmonic scalpel, phacoemulsification), endoscopic technology, power equipment
- Prepares the operating room environment (e.g., temperature, lights, suction, wiping down the room and furniture)
- Transfers patient to operating room table
- Transfers patient from operating table to stretcher
- Observes patient's intraoperative status (e.g., monitors color of blood, blood loss, patient position)
- Differentiates among the various methods and applications of hemostasis (e.g., mechanical, thermal, chemical)
- Follows Standard and Universal Precautions
- Revises surgeon preference card as necessary
- Gowns and gloves sterile team members
- Understands and uses instruments by function, application, and classification
- Drapes specialty equipment (e.g., c-arm, DaVinci, microscope)
- Participates in draping the patient
- Verifies availability of surgery equipment (e.g., reserve equipment for surgery)
- Utilizes computer technology for surgeon's preference cards, interdepartmental communication, continuing education, research
- Decontaminates and cleans instruments and equipment
- Assembles and maintains retractors
- Applies ethical and legal practices related to surgical patient care
- Disposes of contaminated sharps after surgery in compliance with Standard Precautions
- Packages and sterilizes instruments and equipment
- Verifies, prepares, and labels specimen
- Applies principles of surgical pharmacology to operative practice types, uses, action and interactions of drugs and solution (e.g., hemostatic agents, antibiotics, IV solutions)
- Understands and is sensitive to cultural diversity
- Verifies, receives, mixes and labels all medications and solutions
- Troubleshoots equipment malfunctions
- Applies principles of surgical microbiology to operative practice classification and pathogenesis of microorganisms (e.g., cultures)
- Maintains aseptic technique throughout the procedure
- Prepares, passes, and cuts suture material as directed
- Sterilizes instruments for immediate use (e.g. short cycle)
- Performs room clean up and restocks supplies
- Provides interoperative assistance under the direction of the surgeon
- Performs counts with circulator at appropriate intervals
- Monitors medication and solution use
- Transports patient to and from operating room
- Participates in case debrief
