What are the responsibilities and job description for the LPN Surgical Technologist position at West River Health Services?
Position Summary:
Care for patients under the direction of physicians and registered nurse.
Excellence In Practice:
Education: LPN with an active license in ND or a graduate from a surgical technologist program.
Experience: On the job training available.
License Requirements: Unlicensed Assistive Personnel (UAP) from the ND Board of Nursing.
Position requires on call shifts, including rotating weekends and holidays.
Care for patients under the direction of physicians and registered nurse.
Excellence In Practice:
- Completes assignments timely and accurately.
- Understands and follows orders.
- Able to locate physician preference cards and pull for cases appropriately.
- Demonstrates knowledge of: medications and doses; safely draws up medications and labels them for use on sterile field; expected outcome and adverse reaction.
- Effective communication skills: informs nursing staff and physicians of any changes that may impact surgical procedures.
- Critical thinking skills: recognizes changes in a surgical situation; can respond quickly and appropriately; shows ability in creating and maintaining a sterile field using principles of aseptic technique; initiates corrective action when sterility is broken, able to perform sponge, sharps and instrument counts accurately and take action if count is not correct.
- Time management: able to prioritize and multitask, flexible to the patient and departmental needs without interference to patient care.
- Understands principles behind cleaning between cases, room turnover, “Monday” cleaning and terminal cleaning.
- Seeks guidance and direction as necessary.
- Shows ability to operate in a safe manner for which it is intended and report faulty equipment to appropriate personnel.
Education: LPN with an active license in ND or a graduate from a surgical technologist program.
Experience: On the job training available.
License Requirements: Unlicensed Assistive Personnel (UAP) from the ND Board of Nursing.
Position requires on call shifts, including rotating weekends and holidays.
