What are the responsibilities and job description for the Surgical Technologist Traveler Cert position at CommonSpirit Health?
Join our new Upper Midwest Internal Travel Program!
As a Surgical Tech in our Travel Program throughout our Midwest locations at CHI Health, now part of CommonSpirit Health formed between Catholic Health Initiatives and Dignity Health, you’ll prepare the operating room for a variety of surgeries. We can’t operate without you.
The Midwest Internal Travel Program is a skilled workforce pool of CHI Health clinicians who take temporary assignments throughout 29 hospitals across the Midwest Division, in North Dakota, Minnesota, and occasionally in Nebraska and Iowa. The 6-12 week assignments will be based on patient need with our travelers going where staff is needed most. The Midwest Internal Travel Program allows us to respond more quickly to the greatest areas of need with qualified clinicians who know our policies, procedures, and core values.
Travel Differential, Housing Stipend and a $10,000 sign-on incentive and $7,000 educational assistance to new hires who meet the requirements.
If you are committed to social justice, health equity, and prepared to deliver care in new, innovative ways, you belong with us.
About Us:
CommonSpirit Health was formed by the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health. With more than 700 care sites across the U.S. from clinics and hospitals to home-based care and virtual care services CommonSpirit is accessible to nearly one out of every four U.S. residents. Our world needs compassion like never before. Our communities need caring and our families need protection. With our combined resources CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable and innovating how and where healing can happen both inside our hospitals and out in the community.
Responsibilities
The operating room (OR) runs as a team; every person on the team has an important role that directly impacts the patient. Your success in this role comes from your adaptability and enthusiasm to work with a team taking patients from a diseased process to a healing process.
- Prepare the operating room for assigned surgical procedures with proper instrumentation and sterilization
- Navigate the nuances of surgical procedures and surgeons you’ll be supporting
- Adapt to the needs of emergency situations
- Provide clean-up and turnover of operating room to prepare for next patient
Qualifications
- Unlicensed Assistive Person (UAP) registration from the North Dakota Board of Nursing required.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) issued by American Heart Association (AHA).
Preferred:
- Certification through the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (NBSTSA) or the National Center for Competency Training (NCCT).
- Graduate of accredited Surgical Technologist program.
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