Maintains a professional image and exhibits excellent customer relations to patients, visitors, physicians, and co-workers. Applies principles of asepsis to the surgical hand scrub, preparation and care of supplies, establishing and maintaining a sterile field, and dressing of wounds.
Requirements
- Maintains a professional image and exhibits excellent customer relations to patients, visitors, physicians, and co-workers
- Applies principles of asepsis to the surgical hand scrub, preparation and care of supplies, establishing and maintaining a sterile field, and dressing of wounds
- Manages instruments and supplies for the surgical procedure and assists the operating surgeon
- Maintains the sterility of instruments and supplies on the sterile field and immediately reports in breaks in technique
- Correlates the case set-up, sutures, drapes, blades, sponges, and instruments needed for the surgical procedure
- Organizes sterile supplies systematically and in a timely manner
- Performs initial instrument, sharps and sponge counts with the circulator and surgical technologist preceptor; and performs additional counts as necessary
- Maintains accurate counts of all instruments, sponges, sharps, etc. placed on the sterile field
- Provides support during the surgical procedure by passing instruments and other supplies in an organized and timely manner
- Handles medications and solutions aseptically with correct identification and labeling under supervision; keeps an accurate account of all medications on the sterile field
- Responsible for handling and correctly identifying all specimens before passing off the sterile field
- Follows Point-of-Use cleaning
- Cleans and prepares instruments for decontamination cleaning and terminal sterilization by ensuring all instruments are placed back in original trays with gross bio-burden removed prior to application of enzymatic spray
- Assists with the care of the patient after the surgical procedure is completed until the patient is out of the surgical suite
- Uses standard precautions and appropriate personal protective equipment when working around or handling hazardous substances, including blood and body fluids
- Regular, punctual and dependable attendance. Clocking in per policy expectations
- Performs other duties as assigned
