Technician - OB PD Days

Overview

JOB SUMMARY : A clinically competent certified surgical technologist who works under the supervision of the registered nurse in delivering safe and effective care to the patient during the intraoperative period. The technologist interacts with patients and health care team members while maintaining the surgical department standards, scrubs all with appropriate handling of instruments and equipment for the surgeons.

OB / GYN technicians, sometimes called obstetric technicians (OBT), provide assistance during vaginal and C-section deliveries, and other procedures done in L&D. When OB techs aren't helping doctors deliver babies and keeping rooms prepared, they assist patients and perform basic clerical duties. These duties usually include ordering supplies for delivery and operating rooms, maintaining logs, pulling up patient information on computers, doing inventory, and supporting administrative tasks as needed. OB techs help patients get ready for surgery by cleaning and transporting them to operating rooms or assisting them when they are discharged from the hospital.

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, TRAINING

• High school graduate.
• OB Tech Certification preferred.
• Must have a current BCLS.
• National Surgical Technologist Certificate preferred.
• NRP and Birth & Beyond Breastfeeding certificates are preferred.

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