What are the responsibilities and job description for the Surgical Technologist Assistant position at Lincoln Surgical Hospital/Nebraska Surgery Center?
Job Details
Description
Lincoln Surgical Hospital is an innovative healthcare leader in providing exceptional surgical services for our patients. Our dedicated physicians and staff strive to achieve optimal surgical outcomes in a patient-focused atmosphere. We are looking for exceptional people to provide extraordinary care as a Surgical Technologist Assistant.
This position requires you to be a current student of an accredited Surgical Technology program.
Hours: Part time - flexible and able to work with school schedule.
The Surgical Technologist Assistant is involved with assisting in the instrumentation and technical aspect of the operative event.
Job duties include but are not limited to:
- Assists in pulling required instrumentation, supplies, and equipment.
- Assists in the preparation of rooms with disinfectant, room turnover, and restocking.
- May participate in opening sterile supplies under the direction and supervision of the circulator and or scrub tech staff.
- Prepares work areas by draping, preparing, and testing equipment and organizing instrumentation.
- Scrubs, gowns, and gloves according to the procedure. Assists in gowning and gloving surgeons.
- Anticipates the need for instruments, ligatures, sponges, and irrigation, utilizing physician preference cards.
- Observes for breaks in sterile technique and calls attention to such, and moves easily within the limits of the sterile field.
- Keeps field clean and free of used sponges, suture ends, and instrumentation.
- Participates in surgical sponge, needle, sharps, and instrument counts as applicable.
- Demonstrates the correct use of surgical equipment and supplies.
- May hold retractors under the direction of the surgeon, but at no time will function independently as the only scrub technologist.
- May also act as a sterile processing technician.
Qualifications
Current student of an accredited Surgical Technology program.
Current BLS certification required at time of hire.
