Certified Surgical Technologist - FT - 7a-5p - Same Day Surgery - Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center
Atlantic Health System
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- Location
- Morristown, NJ
- Job type
- Full time
- Posted
- Oct 26
- 2 days ago
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About the company
Atlantic Health System
Hospital & health care · 10,001+ employees
What you'll do
- Assemble supplies and set up the sterile instrument table
- Assist with draping the patient and operative area
- Anticipate the surgeon's needs for instruments, sutures, sponges, and supplies
- Maintain correct counts of sponges, needles, and instruments with the circulating nurse
- Maintain aseptic technique and institute corrective measures if contamination occurs
- Assist in care, handling, and disposition of specimens
- Inspect instruments, trays, and packages for sterility, completeness, and proper function
- Maintain sharps safety and organized sterile back table
What you need
- High School Diploma or equivalent required.
- Associate's degree in Surgical Technology or related field preferred.
- Completion of an accredited Surgical Technologist Program required
- Certification through NCCT or NBSTSA required
- 1-2 years of experience as a Scrub Tech in a Hospital Setting preferred.
- BLS required
- Education: a high school diploma, an associate degree or a professional certificate
Key skills
Surgical hand scrubGowning and GlovingSafe patient transferAseptic techniqueSurgical scrubSterile field
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1. Applies principles and practices of asepsis; performs surgical scrub, gowning, and gloving procedure.
2. Assembles all necessary supplies according to requirements of the patient and the surgical procedure.
3. Sets up sterile instrument table and prepares supplies according to type of operation. Assists in draping of patient and operative area according to need.
4. Assists and anticipates needs of surgeon for instruments, sutures, sponges, and supplies according to knowledge of procedural requirements and constant monitoring of progress.
5. Maintains correct count of sponges, needles, and instruments with circulating nurse and report correctness of discrepancies according to established policy and procedure.
6. Maintains and monitors aseptic technique at all times and institute corrective measures in the event of contamination.
7. Assists in care, handling and disposition of specimen according to policy.
8. Inspects instruments, trays and packages to ensure sterility and completeness and with no evidence of bioburden. Ensures proper functioning of instruments before use.
9. Correctly receives and labels solutions and medications on the sterile field. Verifies all solutions and medications with RN team member.
10. Participates in Universal Protocol; Sign in, Time out and sign out per policy.
11. Participates in Fire Risk Assessment. Ensures fire safety measures are met and communicated.
12. Demonstrates and understands use of all equipment in the patient care areas. Communicates malfunctioning equipment or instruments immediately and requests equipment be removed and sequestered appropriately until further investigation.
13. Maintains sharps safety measures in handling, transfer and disposal. Direct all team members in safe handling measures within the sterile field.
14. Maintains organized sterile back table. Follows point of use instrument cleaning standards. Use pre-cleansing solution on all instruments before delivering to SPD decontamination area.
15. Assists with cleanup in OR as necessary.
16. Maintains safety measures at all times.
17. Maintains a good professional working relationship with all team members.
18. Maintains professional and technical knowledge through continuing education and organization and unit mandates. Achieves and maintained professional ST certification as required.
19. Contributes to team efforts and high quality, safe patient outcomes through collaboration with peers, supervisors, surgeons, and anesthesiologists. Promoting all PRIDE values.
20. Performs other related duties as assigned.
Education/Experience
High School Diploma or equivalent required.
Associate's degree in Surgical Technology or related field preferred.
Completion of an accredited Surgical Technologist Program required
Certification through NCCT or NBSTSA required
1-2 years of experience as a Scrub Tech in a Hospital Setting preferred.
BLS required
COMPETENCIES:
1. Surgical hand scrub
2. Gowning and Gloving
3. Setting up a sterile field
4. Safe patient transfer