Certified Surgical Technologist - Days

Surgical Technologist

Your job is more than a job.

As a trusted member of the operating room team, your top priority as a Surgical Technologist is a safe surgery for every patient. You're the watch dog in the OR protecting patients from harm by maintaining a sterile environment. It's all about preparation and anticipation, ensuring the instrumentation and equipment is there when the surgeon needs it.

As a Surgical Tech, you thrive on responsibility, focus on the little things, and organize like nobody's business. But you're also human - so you ask for help quickly and offer help proactively. That's what we love about you.

Your experiences, knowledge, skills, your empathy, compassion, personality, all of it adds up to you. And we're excited to get to know you and find out what you'll bring to this crucial surgical team role.

Your Everyday

• Assist the circulating nurse with patient positioning, confirmation/preparation of operative site, care of operative specimens and room turnover.
• Establish and maintain an organized sterile field.
• Provide scrub assistance during procedures which reflect awareness of anatomy, necessary principles, skills, supplies, and adequate knowledge base.
• Demonstrate the application of the principles of asepsis and select proper sterilization method of instruments/equipment prior to procedures and verify sterile instruments taking corrective action when any unsafe practice, conditions or breaks in aseptic technique occur and report information to the circulating nurse.
• Prepare the operating room by opening sterile supplies, instruments, and sutures based on scheduled procedure and surgeon preference card.
• Follow policies for scrubbing, gowning, gloving, setting up back table, draping and counting with the circulating nurse.

The Must-Haves Minimum:

• Graduate of an accredited Surgical Technologist program
• Certified Surgical Technologist (CST) - National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (NBSTSA) or National Certification for Competency Testing (NCCT)
• Current BLS certification

Sign on Bonus Available!