What are the responsibilities and job description for the Surgical Scrub Tech - Full-Time - AVALA Hospital - RH249 position at AVALA_18281?
Summary
The Surgical Scrub Tech's responsibilities include preparing and assisting the surgeon during procedures using aseptic technique, maintaining supplies and instruments, providing quick turnover for subsequent procedures while assisting the nursing staff in providing quality patient care.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Assists in providing optimal patient care through appropriate planning and implementation of surgical procedures.
- Reviews assigned cases the prior workday to ensure they have all necessary supplies and equipment.
- Practices and maintains aseptic technique during operative procedures and while preparing sterile field.
- Utilizes surgeon's preference cards in providing necessary supplies for each case.
- Anticipates surgeon's needs and watches for any break in aseptic technique.
- Hands off all tissue removed from patients from the sterile field and identifies to the circulating nurse.
- Communicates needed updates to preference cards.
Assists with orientation of new staff as needed.
Assists with the turnover of the rooms in between cases.
Performs duties ensuring patient safety.
Communicates with OR Director / OR Supervisor regarding issues or operational conflicts in the department and participates in problem solving.
Maintains employee safety.
Maintains supplies and instruments.
Performs competently in emergency or stressful situations.
Core Competencies
Action Orientation - Targets and achieves results, overcomes obstacles, accepts responsibility, establishes standards and responsibilities, creates a results-oriented environment, and follows through on actions.
Communications - Communicates well both verbally and in writing. Effectively conveys and shares information and ideas with others. Listens carefully and understands various viewpoints. Presents ideas clearly and concisely and understands relevant detail in presented information.
Creativity / Innovation - Generates novel ideas and develops or improves existing and new systems that challenge the status quo, takes risks, and encourages innovation.
Critical Judgment - Possesses the ability to define issues and focus on achieving workable solutions. Consistently does the right thing by performing with reliability.
Customer Orientation - Listens to customers, builds customer confidence, increases customer satisfaction, ensures commitments are met, sets appropriate customer expectations, and responds to customer needs.
Interpersonal Skills - Effectively and productively engages with others and establishes trust, credibility, and confidence with others.
Leadership - Motivates, empowers, inspires, collaborates with, and encourages others. Builds consensus when appropriate. Focuses team members on common goals.
Teamwork - Knows when and how to attract, develop, reward, and utilize teams to optimize results. Acts to build trust, inspire enthusiasm, encourage others, and help resolve conflicts and develop consensus in creating high-performance teams.
Professional Requirements
Advanced Orthopedic and Spine Certification Requirements
CR.1c) As part of the Advanced Orthopedic and Spine Certification, at a minimum, the Program direct-care staff, must have eight (8) hours of education specific to the Program scope, initially, and at least annually thereafter.
CR.1e) As part of the Advanced Orthopedic and Spine Certification, staff possess adaptability to processes as related to up to date best practices, collaboration between departments, compliance with protocols / processes, communication, cooperation and exceptional customer service.
Within 90 days of hire or, if currently employed, within 90 days of signing the job description, must adhere to :
Regulatory Requirements
Skills
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. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires repetitive motions, standing, walking, bending, kneeling and stooping all day. The employee must frequently lift or move items weighing over 100 pounds. Learn More
