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Job Title
Surgical Technologist
Location
Port St Lucie
Facility
Tradition Hospital
Department
TMC Endoscopy-Cleveland Clinic Martin Health
Job Code
000926
Shift
Days
Schedule
6:30am-5:00pm
Job Summary
Job Details
*This position is eligible for a sign-on bonus of up to $7,000*
Join Cleveland Clinic Tradition Hospital’s team of caregivers that provide top-quality patient care to the communities in and around Port St. Lucie. Opening its doors in 2013 and expanding in 2017, this state-of-the-art acute care facility has 177 patient rooms and offers services in a wide variety of specialties to meet community needs. You'll be supported as you follow your dreams and find where you belong, here at Tradition Hospital.
Surgical Technologists assist in surgical procedures under the supervision of surgeons and registered nurses and ensure quality patient care during the operative procedure and maintaining a sterile field. Surgical Technologists perform a variety of functions, such as checking supplies and equipment, setting up sterile tables, performing appropriate counts, draping the sterile field, passing instruments to the surgeon and assistant during the procedure, preparing sterile dressing and cleaning instruments for terminal sterilization. This particular role will be supporting the Endoscopy Suite. This is a great hands-on learning opportunity that will help you to advance your skill set and potentially move into other roles within Cleveland Clinic.
A caregiver in this position works days from 6:30AM – 5:00PM, with on-call, weekend and holiday requirements.
A caregiver who excels in this role will:
- Provide quality, individualized patient care in the perioperative, intraoperative and postoperative phases.
- Follow guidelines for perioperative practices as established by AORN.
- Maintain the sterile field.
- Review daily assignments and ascertain surgeon-specific preferences and anesthesia.
- Identify and prioritize individual patient care needs taking into consideration age, physiological, cultural and physical status.
- Plan care based on contemplated procedure, standards of practice, admission assessment and MD preferences.
- Assemble, check and open sterile packs, sutures and more.
- Practice and assist others in maintaining aseptic technique and report and/or correct any breaks.
- Comply with required standards for patient positioning, skin preparation, counting and side-site verification.
- Remain with the sterile setup to assure maintenance of the sterile field.
- Assist with draping the sterile field.
- Prepare/edit surgeon's preference lists.
- Communicate pertinent information during procedure and during personnel changes, including status of surgical procedure.
- Collect specimens as directed by the surgeon and identify the origin of each specimen to the RN Circulator.
- Assist surgeons and assistants with retraction and suction as directed.
- Assure that all biohazard material is handled and disposed of properly using universal precautions.
- Keep accurate counts of all sutures, sharps, soft goods and instruments.
- Assist RN Circulator to ensure proper room utilization through decreased turnover time per CPT and scheduled procedural time review.
- Assure that all instrumentation is returned to decontamination with proper documentation count sheets.
Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:
- Graduate of a Surgical Technology Program accredited through the CAAHEP or ABHES
- OR completion of a military surgical technology program
- OR certification as a Surgical Technologist (acceptable certifications for this route are TS-C (through the National Center for Competency Training) or CST (through the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting)
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification through the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross
Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:
- Certified Surgical Technologist
- Two years of experience in a multi-disciplined OR in an acute care hospital setting
Physical Requirements:
- Workload is heavy and requires constant lifting, moving of patients, equipment, instrument trays, and supplies.
- Able to lift items up to 50 pounds without assistance and greater than 50 pounds with assistance.
- Stooping, pushing and pulling required when moving patients or equipment into position for surgery.
- Ability to work at a fast pace and to prioritize multiple assignments/projects and respond to numerous requests; ability to resolve conflicts among staff and to work collaboratively with department director, physicians and other members of the Healthcare team; ability to ensure operational efficiency; ability to problem solve and make decisions; ability to exercise self-control and tolerate stress when dealing with multiple requests and/or conflicting demands from multiple customers.
- Needs minimal sustained direction in assessing work load, directing staff and carrying out departmental and professional responsibilities; self-starting and self-motivating; working hours may exceed eight (8) hours per day and is based on what is needed to accomplish completion of the daily surgical schedule.
Personal Protective Equipment:
- Follows Standard Precautions using personal protective equipment as required for procedures.
The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.
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