Lead ENT Surgical Tech

Essential Job Functions

• Consistently creates, maintains, and monitors a sterile field.
• Drapes with sterile technique in accordance with the surgeon preference.
• Adheres to standard precautions and the use of personal protective equipment.
• Familiar with equipment, instrumentation and supplies for basic procedures.
• Anticipates the needs of the surgical team before, during, and after the procedure.
• Reviews preference cards and prepares accordingly for assigned procedures.
• Accountable for cost effective practice with regards to equipment and supplies.
• Identifies, and properly handles specimens for processing.
• Counts instruments, sharps, and sponges, before, during, and after procedures.
• Cleans and prepares instruments for reprocessing/sterilization.
• Familiar with the methods of sterilization: Steam, Steris, flash, ETO.
• Properly transfers, stores, and labels all medications on the field under the supervision of the circulating RN.
• Reacts appropriately in emergency patient situations by remaining scrubbed or performing as directed by the RN.
• Safeguards patient information and maintains patient confidentiality.
• Collaborates with the surgical team in the implementation of the plan of care for each patient.
• Recognizes and reports situations which impact patient safety.
• Participates in indirect patient care activities such as cart stocking, case cart completion etc.
• Facilitates efficient turnovers.
• Participates in mandatory annual training and scheduled in-services.
• Complies with policies and procedures of Surgical Services
• Identifies individual self-learning needs and works with perioperative educator to seek appropriate experiences.
• Serves as a role model for professional perioperative practice in the Operating Room.
• Takes call and proficiently scrubs for all surgical specialties.
• Assumes responsibility for precepting newer staff/students to the scrub role.
• Collaborates to identify learning needs of orientee staff and assists with opportunities for teaching/learning programs, assists with competency-based practice.
• Responsible for streamlining trays, dry goods and the set-up and breakdown of surgical cases.
• Demonstrates ability to operate and trouble-shoot a variety of equipment used in the surgical suite.
• Ensures that proper Radiation Safety protection is being practiced and exercised according to standard.
• Participates in hospital or unit-based performance improvement activities.
• Completes educational activities as assigned
• Required to complete 4 hours of annual training per year for advanced orthopedic and spine certification requirements.

Minimum Qualifications
Education
•Graduate from an accredited surgical technology program or equivalent

Experience
•3 to 5 years of surgical technologist experience preferred
• Demonstrates knowledge and practice of basic patient care concepts
• Demonstrates the application of the principles of asepsis in a knowledgeable manner that provides for optimal patient care in the OR
• Demonstrates basic surgical case preparation skills
• Demonstrates the ability to perform the role of first scrub on basic surgical cases
• Safe pharmaceutical handling requirements and guidelines
• Analytical and critical thinking skills necessary to understand a variety of basic and/or routine problem scenarios associated with patient care
• Interpersonal skills which enable the incumbent to appropriately respond to a variety of patient/family requests and inquiries, to respond to inquiries from physicians, nursing staff and other health care providers, and to check for understanding, allay apprehension and enlist cooperation of the patient
• Ability to utilize and apply PSE skills

Certifications and Licenses
•Certification for Surgical Technology At hire
• Certification by the Liaison Council for the Surgical Technologist (LCC-ST), desired

Or an equivalent combination of education and experience relating to the above tasks, knowledge, skills and abilities will be considered. Employees that require a licensed or certification must be properly licensed/certified and the licensure/certification must be in good standing.